Hi, everyone.
Thank you so much for coming out tonight
to another amazing event, obviously, I'm biased.
But thank you for coming out to another amazing event
at the Poetry Center.
Tonight, we are very excited to host Aria Aber and Shayla Lawz,
tonight in the Morgan Lucas Schuldt Memorial Reading.
I just want to say a few words about what that reading means.
The Morgan Lucas Schuldt Memorial Reading
features emerging and innovative poets.
This event is presented annually as part of the Poetry Center's
reading and lecture series and is
named after poet and publisher Morgan Lucas Schuldt.
You can read more about his life and his work
online at the Poetry Center's website.
Two things that I just want to briefly share
is that our next reading is October 6 with Victoria Chang.
And October 13, we will be also hosting
Rita Dove, as part of the Humanities Festival.
So that is going to happen on October 13.
So please come out, enjoy.
Just two really beautiful writers
that I'm hoping that we can all celebrate here in Tucson.
Woo.
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[APPLAUSE]
Thank you.
I'm now going to go ahead and invite up the poet as well
as our event coordinator here at the Poetry Center,
Paola, who will be introducing our first poet.
So thank you.
[APPLAUSE]