Hi, everyone.
Welcome to the Poetry Center.
I'm Diana Delgado.
I'm the literary director here.
I'm going to be very brief, but I do have just a few notes
about next week.
Next week, we're going to have Nikky Finney here at the Poetry
Center.
So please do not miss out on that.
That is-- Let me lower this a little bit.
Nikky Finney is part of our Art for Justice Project.
The Art for Justice, for those of you who don't know,
is an initiative that we are now in the first year
entering into our second year that commissions
new work from leading writers in conversation
with the crisis of mass incarceration in the United
States.
And our goal here at the Poetry Center
is to create new awareness surrounding that crisis.
So please come out next week, Nikky Finney.
Also if you are in Phoenix, we are doing a reading
next Wednesday in Phoenix at the Phoenix Art Museum
with Nikky Finney.
So you could see her on Wednesday.
And then, if you're in Tucson, you can come out on Thursday
and see her then.
So please come out.
So I want to welcome Kiki Petrosino.
And I also want to welcome up Ander Monson,
the director of the MFA program here at the UVA to introduce.
Thank you.