We like our layers of introductions here a lot.
But they're all short, so--
I can assure you of that.
So I'm Ander Monson, I'm the Prose Series director.
I apologize in advance if you came for Charles Yu.
He was originally part of this bill, and the show
he works on--
HBO changed their shooting schedule.
And so, he had to move.
So he will be reading with Kristen Radtke,
a visual nonfiction writer on January 25th.
So come back, if you would, for that.
Its guaranteed to be an awesome reading, as is tonight.
The upside is this makes more space for Rubén Martínez.
A couple of thanks to our co-sponsors,
the Poetry Center as always.
Of course, really happy, really happy to have this space,
and to have the logistics, and everything that they do
is wonderful.
Thanks also to the High Country News
which is co-sponsoring this event tonight.
The Institute of the Environment,
the Agnese Nelms Haury fund via Alison Deming, our dear
colleague, and of course, the MFA in creative writing.
So with that, now my pre introduction is out of the way,
I'd like to introduce the actual introducer,
and we're moving slowly closer to Rubén Martínez: Maya Kapoor.