Welcome.
Thank you for being here tonight.
I'm Manuel Muñoz.
I am the director of the Prose Series this academic year.
I want to thank you for being here back in September
for Venita Blackburn.
Tonight, for our guest--
before I ask Kevin Mosby to come up and introduce our guest,
I also just want to say thank you
to the Department of English, Program of Creative Writing,
and especially this time around, Poets and Writers,
who came through with a grant to help us bring James to campus.
So I want to really thank them and remind you that in January,
we have Nicole Walker coming from Flagstaff to visit,
and of course, Cherríe Moraga in April.
But enough with that.
I'm going to come over to Kevin, who will introduce our guest.