[APPLAUSE]
Hello, everybody.
Can you hear me?
Anyone has a thumbs up?
OK, thank you whoever said, yeah.
Let's see.
[SPEAKING NEZ PERCE]
I'm joining you here from Tokyo, Japan,
and I want to give a [SPEAKING NEZ PERCE],,
a large thank you to Bojan Louis and the University
of Arizona Poetry Center and to Jennifer, who will follow me.
I'm going to be reading about four or five poems from my book
Swallowed Light.
This is my second time to read from the book.
So I'm a little bit nervous still,
and then I'm going to read a--
I guess, a newer poem.
At this point, it's quite old in retrospect,
but it's part of newer work, I guess, but I'll get into this.
Again, thank you, Bojan, for your patience and kindness
throughout these several months.
One thing I do want to read first is in my acknowledgments.
One thing I really wanted to say is, especially
for young writers, to any Indigenous writer out there,
to every Indigenous writer poet and artist before
and after me, you and the languages and worlds that
make you are ever possible and limitlessly gorgeous.
As someone who's lived outside of the United States
for almost a decade now, I always
have to remember that those who came
before me, those beside me, and those who will come
to take these spaces.
I'm forever grateful for us, I should say.