Hi, everyone.
Yay.
We're back.
I guess our last reading was in April,
but it's been a good break for us.
Everyone who doesn't know who I am,
I better mention that, Diana Delgado, literary director here
at the Poetry Center.
Very happy to just say we had a really great break.
And Paola Valenzuela, the event coordinator, and myself
have been working very hard in creating the upcoming series.
Yes.
As well as the other members of the Poetry Center team,
who work really, really hard to create this reading series
for the Tucson community.
I am so excited to host Anthony Cody and Mai Der Vang tonight.
Let's give an applause for them.
The Poetry Center hosts residents here,
fellows who get to spend a little bit
more time in the Poetry Center cottage
working and developing new work and spending
time in the library.
And that's what Anthony and Mai Der have been doing,
and we're just thankful that they
decided to spend the time here.
They brought all this rain to us,
and we're just so thankful to have them here,
and we're looking forward to learning
what new work that they end up creating from their time here.
I want to share a few notes about the upcoming reading
series, and I'll do that at the very end,
and I'll also talk a little bit about some amazing classes
and workshops that we will be curating for the fall.
We won't have a Q & A, but we will have books for sale,
so we'll be book signing right after the reading.
I want to share that we will first
have Anthony Cody reading, and Anthony
will be introduced by Susan Briante, who
is a professor here at The U of A,
and whose most recent book, "Defacing the Monument,"
is out on Noemi Press.
And so if you have not picked up that book,
you should pick that book up.
Yes.
Say-- oh, I'm so sorry.
It's the other way around.
I'm going to just sort of say the other introducers bio,
and then you all know what to do.
You're going to get up here.
Susan's here.
She's going to be introducing, and she'll come up.
She knows more than I do when she'll come up.
But we also have another introducer here,
and I'm just going to invite them up soon,
but I want to just say a few things about Gabriel Dozal.
Gabriel Dozal is a proud graduate
of the University of Creative Writing--
The University of Arizona creative writing
program, and wishes he was still in the MFA.
That says a lot.
His poetry appears in Poetry Magazine, Guernica,
the Iowa Review, and the Brooklyn Rail,
among other places.
Please remember this title because his book,
"The Border Simulator," will be published by One World Random
House in 2023.
So welcome.