Thank you so much, Bojan, for your descriptions,
and information about the anthology,
and also reading the work of some really amazing poets.
So thank you so much.
We're now going to go on to our next reader, who
is Jennifer Elise Foerster.
Jennifer Elise Foerster received her PhD
in English and literary arts at the University of Denver,
her MFA from the Vermont College of Fine Arts,
and is an alumna of the Institute for American Indian
Arts, IAIA, in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
She's received an NEA creative writing fellowship, a Lannan
Foundation writing residency fellowship,
a grant from the Aninstantia Foundation,
and was a Wallace Stegner fellow in poetry at Stanford.
Jennifer is the author of two books
of poetry, Leaving Tulsa, 2013, and Bright
Raft in the Afterweather, 2018.
Both published by the University of Arizona Press.
She teaches for the IAIA MFA in creative writing program,
and the Rainier Writing Workshop,
and serves as a literary assistant
to the US Poet Laureate Joy Harjo.
The daughter of an Air Force diplomat,
Foerster grew up living internationally,
is of European, German, Dutch, Mvskoke descent,
and is a member of the Muscogee Creek Nation of Oklahoma.
She lives in San Francisco.
Thank you, Jennifer, for being here with us today.
And I just want to welcome you with just an open heart.