Hello, everybody.
Welcome.
How are you all?
Good.
Yeah.
That's the right noises to make before a great poetry reading.
Good work.
More vowel sounds.
Happy everyone's here.
My name is Tyler Meier.
I work as the director here at the Poetry Center.
Happy to have a good crowd in Tucson
on a Thursday night for a poetry reading,
with two wonderful poets that I admire so much,
who are traveling a short distance
to come read for us tonight.
Faculty members and former faculty members
here at the U of A, Farid Matuk and Jane Miller--
and both heroes both amazing poets.
So I'm grateful to them for being here.
I just have a couple of quick announcements I want to make.
If you were here early and have come in to the red seats,
you'll have noticed that there's a broadside waiting
for you on those seats.
And that's a broadside from New Michigan Press, AKA Ander
Monson and others.
Ander's right back there.
Ander, wave to us.
He made these broadsides.
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So if you missed one because you came late
or because you sat in the back, this is the lesson to you.
And there are some extras up here.
I see a few around.
So if you find one later, you can grab it.
There's also a broadside from Farid Matuk
that we have that has come, that we'll
be passing out afterwards.
I'm going to have those.
So if you want to grab one of those after the reading,
and you should, come see me and we'll have those to pass out.
And thanks to New Michigan Press for the beautiful press work.
Jane Miller is going to read first tonight,
and then Farid Matuk will read second.
To introduce Farid, Kou Sugita will be up here to introduce.
A third year MFA student.
We're really excited to have Kou with us.
So thank you so much.
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But please help me welcome now my colleague,
Sarah Kortemeier, the library director here at the Poetry
Center.
She'll introduce Jane.
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