Welcome to the Poetry Center.
Glad you guys are here.
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Thank you.
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It's a great night.
We're really excited about it.
And I just have a couple of quick housekeeping things
to take care of.
My name is Tyler Meier.
I work here as the director at the Poetry Center.
We're very happy to have you.
This reading is part of a series that we've
been offering this fall and into the spring season
about climate change and poetry and where those two
things might intersect and how the language we
use to think about these complicated environmental
problems might create new possibilities,
new imaginative possibilities, how we think about it, how we
think about the challenges, and how we
think about the possibilities.
There are many people on campus, many groups on campus
that have helped make this reading series possible.
And so I just want to quickly thank them.
Thanks to the College of Science.
Thanks to the Agnese Nelms Haury Program
in Environment and Social Justice.
Thanks to the Confluence Center.
Thanks to the Institute of the Environment, Africana Studies.
Thanks to the National Endowment for the Arts
and everyone else who supported this.
We're glad and thankful for all that support.
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