Glad you're all here.
Thanks for coming.
Happy Tucson winter, which we are upon, and it is upon us.
So I want to welcome you all.
My name is Tyler.
I work here as the director at the Poetry Center,
and I want to tell you about a couple of things.
So we've had a really amazing couple
of days already with the Bagley Wright lecturers
who have been in town for 46-plus hours now,
and it's been special, and Tucson is better because of it.
I want to welcome up Matthew Zapruder, who's
going to talk a little bit more about the poets who
are speaking this evening and lecturing to us.
Matthew is the author of the book Come
On All You Ghosts and the poetry book Sun Bear
as well as the amazing collection
Why Poetry, a book that asks big questions
and thinks big about that question with big answers.
That's a really beautiful book that I encourage you all
to look at, please.
He organizes all of this, so grateful to him for that.
And he has a team along with Ellen Welcker that
makes it happen.
So please let me welcome Matthew Zapruder.