Hello, everyone, welcome.
We're so glad you're here.
Welcome to the Poetry Center.
Happy monsoon, you get a little bit of rain.
Yeah, we can applaud, it's been hot.
[APPLAUSE]
I'm always looking for cheap applause.
My name is Tyler.
I work here as the executive director at the Poetry Center,
and we're really glad you guys chose to be here tonight
with us.
This reading tonight features our summer resident.
And the residency program here at the Poetry Center
is a program that's been in place for a long, long time.
It dates all the way back to the time
when Alison Deming was here as the director of the Poetry
Center.
It's been happening since 1994.
And it's offered writers an opportunity
to develop their work.
And it's been a chance for them to come
be in residence in Tucson, participate
in the life of the Center, the life of Tucson, and all of us,
and then to share with us what they've been working on
and what they've been thinking about.
We're really excited that Hieu Minh Nguyen is here
to share his work with us tonight,
and I can't wait to hear it.
I will introduce Taneum first, and then I'll
introduce Sara Wolfe Vaughan second.
And Taneum will introduce Hieu, and Sara will introduce
Matt, who's here as well.
Matt Bell is here from ASU, and we're
so excited that he's come down to be with us tonight as well.
Taneum Bambrick is a poetry MFA candidate, here
at the University of Arizona.
She serves as poetry editor for Narrative Magazine
and recently as an editorial assistant at Copper Canyon
Press.
She's published work in Gap Tooth
and in the Nashville Review.
And Sarah Wolfe Vaughan is on the precipice of receiving
her MFA in fiction--
it's a scary edge.
She's currently working on a post-apocalyptic novel,
set in New Mexico.
So welcome everyone, we're glad you're here.
Taneum, you can come up and introduce Hieu.