Happy Thursday in Tucson.
My name is Tyler.
I work here as the Executive Director at the Poetry Center,
and I just want to thank a couple of people
and give you a couple quick updates before we
start tonight.
We're indebted to the Amazon Literary Partnerships
for helping support the visit of Srikanth Reddy
here at the Poetry Center.
He's been our Fall resident here at the Poetry Center.
We've been really grateful to have him
in town for an extended stay, and we're grateful to Amazon
for helping make that possible.
We're also very grateful to the Bagley Wright Lecture
Series, a series of lectures that happen nationally
and that work with a group of poets
to create a series of lectures on poetics
while they're in the middle stage of their career.
We're very excited that Srikanth is here as part of this
and has created these lectures.
We're going to hear one of them here tonight.
It's my pleasure to introduce my friend and colleague Joshua
Marie Wilkinson, on faculty here at the U of A
in the creative writing program, who's
going to introduce Srikanth Reddy before this lecture
this evening.
So without further ado, Joshua.