[APPLAUSE]
Joni, that was amazing.
Thank you.
It's a real privilege to be back here.
Thank you to everyone here at the Poetry Center.
Thank you, Tyler.
Thank you, Paola.
Thank you, everyone.
Thank you all for being here.
Thank you, Arizona, for being here.
[LAUGHTER]
Well, let's see.
I'm going to read a bit from this memoir Joni talked about,
and then I'm going to read some poems from Father's Day,
and then I'll read some new poems that
are going to be in this book, I Love Hearing Your Dreams.
I haven't really read these new poems very much.
I haven't been giving that many readings over the past year,
just through circumstance, so some of them
will be as new to me as they are to you, practically,
so thank you for your patience in advance.
And I'll probably dip into the memoir
a few times along the way, so we'll see how this goes.
We'll be on a journey together, man.
It's going to be OK.
So.