OK.
Hi, everyone.
How's everyone doing?
Good.
Good?
Yay.
So I'm Diana Delgado, the literary director
here at the Poetry Center.
It's too loud.
It's too loud?
Wow.
OK.
I'm not even using my full voice either.
OK.
How is this?
OK.
Now I'm like afraid to use my full range.
You should move it away from the mic.
Yeah, OK, how's this?
Yeah?
OK.
OK, awesome.
So you all know who I am, Diana Delgado, I'm
the literary director here at the Poetry Center.
Woo!
Yay.
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So this is kind of a big deal, because this is, I guess,
I started at the Poetry Center in June of 2018.
And this is our last reading of the season.
So it's like a really big deal.
Aw.
I know.
I'm a little bit sad.
But we're really, really excited.
The summer calendar is going to be coming out very soon.
We have classes and workshops.
And we already have ready the 2019-2020 reading and lecture
series ready to go so definitely keep an eye out for that.
[CHEERING]
Really quickly, I want to thank Patri Hadad,
who has been working tirelessly--
and I really mean tirelessly--
with me.
Patri, I just want to tell you thank you,
say thank you for all of your hard work.
[APPLAUSE]
And I also want to thank Tyler who
has been amazing and instrumental in sort of showing
me the ropes here and really just being so welcoming
and just helpful in, you know, kind of ushering me and getting
me to know the community better.
So just thank you for that.
[APPLAUSE]
And thanks everyone else in Tucson
who has either met with me for coffee or offered me compost
or there's been so many different things
that have happened.
And I just want to thank everybody for that.
It's been very helpful in my transition from New York.
OK, enough about the Poetry Center.
We're here to celebrate Rigoberto González.
I have known Rigo for more years than I'd like to share,
but one of the things that I just want to say and just
to kind of reiterate is that it is an honor to have you
here at the Poetry Center.
It's been far too long.
And we are just honored and thankful that you
do the work that you do.
And I'm excited for you to read from your new book and all
of your other books that you have.
So gracias.
The last thing that I want to say
is just, again, to please make sure you go to the Poetry
Center website just to check out our classes and workshops.
We have a few spaces left in about four of our classes
for the summer.
They're going to be closing soon.
But I just want to make sure that you
don't miss out on that, OK.
We will be having Estella Gonzalez come up
she is a writer and an instructor at PCC
here in Tucson.
And she will be introducing Rigoberto.
So I'd like to welcome Estella.
[APPLAUSE]