I'm so happy to be running for president,
and I'm grateful to all of you for coming out
to this fundraiser.
Just kidding.
My name is Tyler, I work here, as the director at the Poetry
Center, and glad to see so many of you coming out
on a Tucson summer night for this reading, in particular.
Grateful for that-- two amazing readers.
[APPLAUSE]
Two amazing readers.
To introduce Vickie and to introduce Erin,
we have two wonderful faculty members here
with U of A, great friends of the Poetry Center.
Introducing Erin, who's going to read first,
is our friend Ander Monson, who's
a professor of English and creative
writing here at the U of A, as well
as the director of the creative writing MFA program, here
at the University.
And then Adela Licona is here, and she
is a professor of English at the University as well.
She's also the interim director for the Institute
for LGBT studies, here at the U of A. Big year,
big job, amazing collaborator for us
here at the Poetry Center--
very excited about both of them.