WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:03.102 align:middle line:84% So thank you all for coming out tonight. 00:00:03.102 --> 00:00:04.019 align:middle line:90% I just have a couple-- 00:00:04.019 --> 00:00:05.852 align:middle line:84% there's a number of layers of introductions, 00:00:05.852 --> 00:00:09.420 align:middle line:84% so I'm layer two in your introduction First, 00:00:09.420 --> 00:00:11.520 align:middle line:84% thanks to New Michigan Press for the broadsides 00:00:11.520 --> 00:00:15.840 align:middle line:84% tonight, which you may see are an A side B side affair. 00:00:15.840 --> 00:00:18.420 align:middle line:84% So you can take two if there are any left 00:00:18.420 --> 00:00:20.760 align:middle line:84% and if you really want both of them for display, 00:00:20.760 --> 00:00:24.480 align:middle line:84% or whatever nefarious purposes you might want to put them to. 00:00:24.480 --> 00:00:29.670 align:middle line:84% You can also ask Jenny and Lydia to sign afterwards. 00:00:29.670 --> 00:00:32.007 align:middle line:84% Worth saying, we're going to skip the Q and A 00:00:32.007 --> 00:00:33.090 align:middle line:90% after the reading tonight. 00:00:33.090 --> 00:00:35.925 align:middle line:84% But we invite questions one on one 00:00:35.925 --> 00:00:37.800 align:middle line:84% with our writers, who are happy to sign books 00:00:37.800 --> 00:00:39.960 align:middle line:90% and broadsides afterwards. 00:00:39.960 --> 00:00:44.820 align:middle line:84% And they're happy to A if you are happy to Q. Second thing, 00:00:44.820 --> 00:00:47.580 align:middle line:84% a second sort of shout out, the next couple of readings 00:00:47.580 --> 00:00:49.200 align:middle line:90% are really great. 00:00:49.200 --> 00:00:50.700 align:middle line:84% I'm really looking forward to Ocean, 00:00:50.700 --> 00:00:54.180 align:middle line:84% and I'm really excited for Elena Passarello and David Shields 00:00:54.180 --> 00:00:55.860 align:middle line:84% here in two weeks for the prose series. 00:00:55.860 --> 00:00:57.400 align:middle line:84% Thanks to the English department, 00:00:57.400 --> 00:00:59.460 align:middle line:84% College of Social and Behavioral Sciences, 00:00:59.460 --> 00:01:01.020 align:middle line:84% and a grant from Poets and Writers 00:01:01.020 --> 00:01:02.910 align:middle line:84% for helping us to put these things on. 00:01:02.910 --> 00:01:05.610 align:middle line:84% We're also really excited to have Lydia and Jenny here 00:01:05.610 --> 00:01:09.450 align:middle line:84% tonight to read from their work, which we liked a great deal. 00:01:09.450 --> 00:01:13.260 align:middle line:84% So last announcement is, you should go to the website 00:01:13.260 --> 00:01:16.530 align:middle line:90% marchfadness.com tonight. 00:01:16.530 --> 00:01:18.810 align:middle line:84% It's the international championship 00:01:18.810 --> 00:01:22.590 align:middle line:84% of March Fadness which is a yearly literary music 00:01:22.590 --> 00:01:25.560 align:middle line:84% tournament, and tonight is the championship game 00:01:25.560 --> 00:01:30.810 align:middle line:84% featuring Natalie Imbruglia's song "Torn" versus OMC's "How 00:01:30.810 --> 00:01:33.210 align:middle line:90% Bizarre." 00:01:33.210 --> 00:01:37.620 align:middle line:84% They've defeated 69 or 68 other songs to get to this point, 00:01:37.620 --> 00:01:41.070 align:middle line:84% and what they need is your vote by 9:00 AM tomorrow morning. 00:01:41.070 --> 00:01:42.232 align:middle line:90% So go to marchfadness.com. 00:01:42.232 --> 00:01:44.190 align:middle line:84% It's a tournament this year of essays about one 00:01:44.190 --> 00:01:46.530 align:middle line:84% hit wonders from the 90s, hence fadness. 00:01:46.530 --> 00:01:48.630 align:middle line:84% Next year will be probably Shredness 00:01:48.630 --> 00:01:50.550 align:middle line:90% being the hair metal bracket. 00:01:50.550 --> 00:01:53.500 align:middle line:84% And we have some more puns in line for that. 00:01:53.500 --> 00:01:56.790 align:middle line:84% So please go vote, preferably for OMC. 00:01:56.790 --> 00:01:58.920 align:middle line:90% They really need your votes. 00:01:58.920 --> 00:02:02.850 align:middle line:84% Natalie is kicking their ass, sort of sadly. 00:02:02.850 --> 00:02:06.480 align:middle line:84% So the plan for tonight is, I'll first 00:02:06.480 --> 00:02:10.110 align:middle line:84% introduce Patrick Cline who's going to come up and introduce 00:02:10.110 --> 00:02:11.280 align:middle line:90% Jenny Offill. 00:02:11.280 --> 00:02:13.230 align:middle line:84% And then after that, Michele Repke 00:02:13.230 --> 00:02:15.450 align:middle line:84% is going to give an introduction to Lydia Millet. 00:02:15.450 --> 00:02:18.348 align:middle line:84% And without further ado-- oh, I should also say, 00:02:18.348 --> 00:02:20.640 align:middle line:84% you should really support the Poetry Center if you can. 00:02:20.640 --> 00:02:22.110 align:middle line:90% This is a great place. 00:02:22.110 --> 00:02:25.330 align:middle line:84% We're really happy to have a relationship with them. 00:02:25.330 --> 00:02:26.910 align:middle line:84% And you should help put your money 00:02:26.910 --> 00:02:32.670 align:middle line:84% where your butt is, which means in their pockets? 00:02:32.670 --> 00:02:34.920 align:middle line:84% I'm just going to get off the stage. 00:02:34.920 --> 00:02:36.330 align:middle line:90% Patrick? 00:02:36.330 --> 00:02:38.150 align:middle line:90% Thank you.