Hi, everyone.
Welcome to the Poetry Center.
We have another amazing reading here tonight.
I'm Diana Delgado.
I'm the literary director, here, at the Poetry Center.
And I just want to welcome everyone tonight
for a very big event that we're all
excited for where we're going to hear Aimee Bender read.
[CLAPPING]
So very excited about that.
Yeah--
[APPLAUSE]
--let's get clapping, and give her a warm invite to Tucson.
[APPLAUSE]
I'm just going to, briefly, go over three, quick things
that I want to make sure everyone knows about.
We run classes and workshops every season.
And we have four to five-- we have, I think,
maybe six classes that we're running in our "Classes
and Workshop" series.
So if you are interested in getting
a need-based scholarship, that has already opened.
And we have through November 21 to apply
for that need-based scholarship.
So just go to the Poetry Center website,
look for classes and workshops, and you can figure it out.
But, remember, November 21 is the deadline.
And then I want to, briefly, say--
we have two amazing poetry events coming up.
And the next one is with Arthur Sze, who is up
for the National Book Award.
So he's going to come and visit with us,
read from his book, Sight Lines, and some
of his other several books.
And then he's going to head straight over to New York City,
where, (HESITANTLY) I guess, he's
going to find out if he won the National Book Award.
[LAUGHTER]
But, I guess, one of the things that I'm saying-- just
encouraging you to come out, congratulate him,
and that, at the Poetry Center, we
have such amazing writers that he's a finalist.
So please come out.
And that is going to be on November 14, Thursday.
And then, to finish up our fall season,
the next person we have, on December 5, is Dean Young.
If you're not familiar with Dean Young's work,
please get familiar with it, because it is amazing.
It's surreal.
It's crazy.
It's weird, and it's just something
that you'll never, probably, forget once you hear
Dean Young read from his work.
So that's going to be next Thursday, December 5.
And that's all I have.
I, now, want to introduce you, very briefly,
to Kate Bernheimer, who's going to say, also,
a few quick things before Aimee comes up and reads.
So, Kate.
[WHISTLING]