WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:05.650 align:middle line:84% Thank you Marianna, the honor is mine. 00:00:05.650 --> 00:00:07.770 align:middle line:90% And I'm so grateful to be here. 00:00:07.770 --> 00:00:09.140 align:middle line:90% Thank you, everyone. 00:00:09.140 --> 00:00:12.200 align:middle line:90% 00:00:12.200 --> 00:00:16.030 align:middle line:84% It means a lot for me for Alt-Nature to live here. 00:00:16.030 --> 00:00:18.550 align:middle line:84% I went through so many experiences with this book. 00:00:18.550 --> 00:00:21.610 align:middle line:84% It didn't even feel like writing it. 00:00:21.610 --> 00:00:24.520 align:middle line:84% Sometimes it was just hanging out with me all the time 00:00:24.520 --> 00:00:29.080 align:middle line:84% in the desert and I'm really glad for it to be back. 00:00:29.080 --> 00:00:31.060 align:middle line:84% I want to say before I start reading, 00:00:31.060 --> 00:00:34.810 align:middle line:84% so 50% of the proceeds from the book 00:00:34.810 --> 00:00:36.820 align:middle line:90% goes to No More Deaths Phoenix. 00:00:36.820 --> 00:00:39.850 align:middle line:84% There's also payment information for No More Deaths Phoenix 00:00:39.850 --> 00:00:42.280 align:middle line:84% at the table if you just want to give 00:00:42.280 --> 00:00:45.580 align:middle line:84% a donation to the organization and not buy the book. 00:00:45.580 --> 00:00:52.370 align:middle line:84% Also I have these really lovely mini broadsides 00:00:52.370 --> 00:00:53.620 align:middle line:90% of the epigraph from the book. 00:00:53.620 --> 00:00:56.078 align:middle line:84% And if you make a donation and show me that you've done so, 00:00:56.078 --> 00:00:57.410 align:middle line:90% I'll be happy to give you one. 00:00:57.410 --> 00:01:02.610 align:middle line:90% 00:01:02.610 --> 00:01:03.265 align:middle line:90% My goodness. 00:01:03.265 --> 00:01:04.890 align:middle line:84% Excuse me, I also want to say thank you 00:01:04.890 --> 00:01:06.300 align:middle line:90% to Tyler and the Poetry Center. 00:01:06.300 --> 00:01:08.730 align:middle line:84% And a very big thank you to Diana Delgado, 00:01:08.730 --> 00:01:10.830 align:middle line:84% the former literary director here 00:01:10.830 --> 00:01:15.360 align:middle line:84% at Poetry Center who invited me to read before she moved 00:01:15.360 --> 00:01:19.400 align:middle line:90% on last spring, I think it was. 00:01:19.400 --> 00:01:22.000 align:middle line:90%