Hi, everyone.
So I have the great pleasure of having a dual role here,
where I serve on the board of Thinking Its Presence,
but I'm also on the poetry faculty in the MFA program
here at the University of Arizona.
So I want to use my time to talk--
to really present to you, or give you
a taste of some of the folks who live here
in Tucson permanently.
I want to say quickly that folks on the program of this
conference, Raquel Gutiérrez, Gabe Dozal, Kou Sugita,
[INAUDIBLE],, Miranda Trimmier, Danielle Geller,
Sophia Terazawa.
Those are all currently enrolled graduate students
in our MFA program.
You may have attended some of their panels, or will tomorrow.
I'm really excited about them, I'm
really lucky to work with them.
And I just want you to know that they are still
in that stage of being graduate students,
and there's a world that they're going to give us going forward.
So I just want to say their names
and say their affiliation so you know who they are.
But I want to use my time to just give you
a sampling of some of the poets who live here permanently.
For every person I'm going to read,
you can imagine there are probably three or four
more who I didn't have time to fit in to this presentation.
So I'm sorry to the folks who I didn't fit in.