Hi.
Welcome to the first evening of the Spring 2005 Visiting Poets
and Writers Reading Series.
I'm Frances Sjoberg, literary director of the Poetry Center,
and we're thrilled to kick off tonight--
this season with David Dominguez, Brenda Shaughnessy,
and Gary Copeland Lilley.
These poets were selected to read
as part of our series, Emergence:
The Next Word in Poetry, because we at the Poetry Center,
believe their work heralds a dynamic era
for American poetry.
Our readers will be introduced tonight
by graduate poets in the University of Arizona's
Creative Writing program.
They are Jodi Kendall, Dawn Pendergast, and Josh Fox.
We didn't review the reading order tonight,
so we're going to do it in that order, if that's OK.
David, and then Brenda, and then Gary.