Thank you so much, Susan.
I'm just going to read my thank yous off the computer,
and then I'll read my lecture off the paper.
I would like to thank the Poetry Center
for the resources, support, and encouragement, and time.
It has been an amazing week--
absolutely, unexpectedly amazing.
I'd especially like to thank Hannah, Tyler, Julie,
Christine, Renee, as well as Susan, Farid, TC, Sam, Sunny
and Rosie.
I'd also like to thank the Jewish History
Museum for bringing me here.
I didn't get a chance to give a talk there
but there is Jewish content in this lecture, which
is interesting.
[LAUGHTER]
I'd like to thank the Bagley Wright Poetry Lecture
Series for this invitation to write and deliver
these lectures, an invitation I could not refuse
and the daunting privilege and opportunity
to think deeply about poetry.
I'd also like to thank people who helped me very
directly with this lecture.
And this is not an inclusive list.
I need to work on this a little bit, but--
Arielle Greenberg, Christine Larusso, Erika Meitner,
Katy Lederer, Laurel Snyder, D.A. Powell, David Trinidad,
and all of my graduate students in my fall
2015 Legacy of Confessional Impulse Craft class at NYU,
especially my student Isaac Ginsberg Miller.
I'd like to thank NYU for enabling me to learn
from these amazing students.
And also, I'd like to thank Janice and her students,
who I spoke to on my very first day here.