Thanks for choosing us over basketball tonight.
We're grateful for that, as always.
My name's Tyler.
I work here as the director at the Poetry Center.
I'm really glad to have a crowd here tonight
to hear Rachel Zucker's lecture.
This is the second part of Rachel's visit.
She's been here for a week plus.
And she gave a poetry reading last week,
and now she's giving a lecture.
And that residency we're so excited about,
she's been our spring poet in residence.
It's a residency that's sponsored by the Amazon
Literary Partnerships, which we're grateful for and looking
forward to those partnerships that we'll have
in the next season as well.
Rachel's reading was wonderful.
And she's been working this week-- this entire week--
on this lecture, which has been a lot of fun.
The lecture is also part of another collaboration called
the Bagley Wright Lecture Series.
And that series commissions writers
to do a series of lectures and then
deliver them in different places around the country.
So we're very grateful that Tucson
is one of the anchor cities for those lectures.
It's been fun to have a hardworking
and seriously working writer in our midst.