Thank you guys, all, for coming tonight.
I will be taking the place of Samuel Ace, who usually
does the hosting for these, and I'm really excited to be here.
First, I want to start off by saying
that POG is a very safe space.
That's something that we promote and we take very serious here.
Raise your hand if you're a board member of POG.
First, give it up for our board members.
They put a lot of work into making this happen.
In the event that you do feel like your experience is not
safe, I would recommend to definitely go
to one of these people.
Share your experience because it is something
that we want to know to take action, if needed.
Some upcoming events that we do have is on March 14th,
we have Sommer Browning and Steve Salmoni.
On April 17th through the 19th is the Tucson Poetry Festival.
POG will be partnering to bring Claudia Rankine to Tucson.
But for now, now we have Joshua Marie Wilkinson, as well as
Ariana Reines this evening.
They also have books for sale right outside,
so I would definitely recommend checking them out.
I've been skimming through them myself and may
take a few of them home.
We're going to go ahead and bring up John Melillo,
and he will be introducing Joshua Marie Wilkinson.