Hello, everyone.
I'm so honored to be here.
Thank you to Paola and Mars for setting up
this reading and this space.
Thank you, Tyler, for hanging out and being here and doing
some really good driving in the Jeep.
Aria, it's been wonderful to meet you in person.
Aria was in a poetry manuscript class
that I taught last year for Asian-American poets
and was a wonderful presence there.
So it's nice to see where you can merge and converge
with people.
Also thank you to Sarah and Julie
for hanging out and talking about archives
like a Geek Squad but books.
It's been really wonderful to be in this space.
I love being in and at poetry libraries.
If you know my history as a writer, I spent a lot of time
at this library called Poets House
at the beginning of my writing journey as an adult.
And it certainly changed my trajectory
from what I thought I was going to be doing with my life.
So in honor of the archive, I thought
I would read poems in chronological order,
from the early times to the first book to the second book.
And then I'll close with some new poems, maybe plural, maybe
singular, depending on the time that my watch is
going to tell me.
OK.