Well, first of all, I want to thank
Barbara for that introduction.
It was beautiful.
And I would also like to thank the Poetry Center
for sponsoring the reading and, of course,
the College of Humanities and the English department.
I especially went to thank Frances Sjoberg
for her support, and one of the best things about teaching
is that you meet people, like Frances, in your classes.
And they go on to become friends.
I'd also like to say that I'm very
happy to be reading with Aurelie,
because I admire her work so much.
I'm going to read about the first half of a story,
and then I'm going to skip to the very last few paragraphs.