My name is Tyler Meier.
I work here is the executive director at the Poetry Center.
Thanks, everyone, for coming tonight,
for choosing poetry in Tucson on a Thursday night.
We're grateful for this.
Glad to see so many people here.
And we're really excited about tonight and this reading
and Brenda's presence.
It's my pleasure to welcome my friend, colleague,
the poet and professor here of English and Poetry
at the University of Arizona, Susan Briante,
and she's going to introduce Brenda Hillman.
Susan.