Thank you so much, Sophia.
I feel like I should just sit down at this point
because that was so beautiful.
Thank you.
Thank you so much.
And it's been so great to meet Sophia and other folks here
who have really read my book, read Layli's work,
and really just deeply engaged with it,
which is just so, so moving and exciting.
So thank you so much.
Thank you all for being here.
Thank you to everybody at the Poetry Center.
I imagine perhaps you all are accustomed
to this space existing.
But coming here, and seeing this space,
and seeing all the folks here is just astonishing for a poet.
And I'm just so, so excited to be here and so thankful
for everybody who's welcomed us.
So what I'm going to do is I'm going
to read a bit first from my book 100 Chinese Silences.
Excuse me.
And then and then I will try to read a few poems
from the new project that I'm working on.