Hello.
Hello, Hannah.
Oh, hi.
Hi, down there.
Hi, over there.
Hi, everyone.
Good crowd tonight.
Thank you for being here.
Welcome to the Poetry Center.
I'm Hannah.
I coordinate the Reading and Lecture Series here, which is,
it happens to be what you're attending.
So tonight we kick off our four-event series on spectacle
and poetics.
We're really glad that this moment is finally here.
But before I get too deep into telling you about spectacle
and poetics or about Terrance Hayes, who's
sitting right there, I want to give a big thank you
to two really wonderful campus partners of ours,
the Confluencenter for Creative Inquiry
and the Department of Africana Studies.
Really, thank you, thank you.
They're making it possible for these four amazing poets
to visit us, so that's a big deal.
Also, we want to thank the Whitman Circle and all friends
of the U of A Poetry Center.