Thanks for being here, everyone.
Thanks to the Poetry Center for inviting me,
and Beth for filling the room with your beautiful story.
I'd also like to thank my students
for providing such an inspiring place to work,
filled with change and hope for the future of writing.
I'm going to read a couple of different kinds of things
tonight.
I'm going to read a little bit from History Lesson for Girls,
just a bit from the first chapter.
And that's going to be what I'll start with, just
from the very beginning.
So I guess I have nothing to describe
in advance, except the cover, which I really like.