I'm so happy to be running for president,
and I'm grateful to all of you for coming out
to this fundraiser.
Just kidding.
My name is Tyler.
I work here as the director at the Poetry Center.
I'm glad to see so many of you coming out on a Tucson summer
night for this reading in particular.
Grateful for that.
Two amazing readers.
[APPLAUSE]
Two amazing readers.
To introduce Vickie and to introduce Erin,
we have two wonderful faculty members here
at the U of A. Great friends of the Poetry Center.
Introducing Erin, who's going to read first,
is our friend Ander Monson, who's
a professor of English and creative writing here at the U
of A, as well as the director of the creative writing MFA
program here at the university.
And then Adela Licona is here, and she
is a professor of English at the university as well.
She's also the interim director for the Institute
for LGBT Studies here at the U of A. Big year, big job,
amazing collaborator for us here at the Poetry Center.
We're very excited about both of them.
So we'll welcome Ander first for Erin,
and then we'll have Adela for Vickie.
Please help me welcome Ander Monson.
[APPLAUSE]