Come on in, welcome everybody, glad you're here.
Welcome to the Poetry Center on a Thursday
night in the spring in Tucson.
This is an incredible stretch of Thursday nights at the Poetry
Center right now.
And if you missed Rodrigo Toscano last Thursday,
don't worry, it's on Voca.
Glad you're here for this tonight.
I want to tell you about what's coming up next at the Poetry
Center, so you have a sense of what
you're going to see over the next three Thursdays.
Basically I'm saying reserve your Thursdays, at least
the next three of them.
Coming up next, we have a poetry reading back here, Thursday,
this room, 7:00 PM on the 6th.
And that's Ocean Vuong and Camille Rankine.
Really excited that they're coming,
that's back here on the 6th here at the Poetry Center.
After that, the next in the prose series
comes up this spring, and that's Elena Passarello
and David Shields, really excited about their presence
and coming to Tucson.
That's on the 13th, 7 o'clock here at the Poetry Center.
And then finally on the 20th we have Mary Ruefle
coming and reading here, and she's reading at 7 o'clock
also, as well, in this room.
Thursdays, what could be better?
What could be better?
Come join us.
I also just want to quickly tell you,
this is appeal season at the Poetry Center,
and so if you're inclined, and you
like what you hear and listen here at the Poetry Center,
and what we're doing here, the work that's happening,
grab one of these cards.
It can tell you about how to support the Poetry Center over
at the table on my right.
There's no time like this time to show, publicly,
your support of the arts.
We're grateful for it and it empowers all the things
that we do here at the Poetry Center,
including these great collaborations with the prose
series.
I'm really glad you're all are here.
I'm going to wake them up in Ander Monson
to tell us more about the introducers and the readers
tonight.
Please help me welcome my friend Ander Monson, bright spirit.