Thank you Marianna, the honor is mine.
And I'm so grateful to be here.
Thank you, everyone.
It means a lot for me for Alt-Nature to live here.
I went through so many experiences with this book.
It didn't even feel like writing it.
Sometimes it was just hanging out with me all the time
in the desert and I'm really glad for it to be back.
I want to say before I start reading,
so 50% of the proceeds from the book
goes to No More Deaths Phoenix.
There's also payment information for No More Deaths Phoenix
at the table if you just want to give
a donation to the organization and not buy the book.
Also I have these really lovely mini broadsides
of the epigraph from the book.
And if you make a donation and show me that you've done so,
I'll be happy to give you one.
My goodness.
Excuse me, I also want to say thank you
to Tyler and the Poetry Center.
And a very big thank you to Diana Delgado,
the former literary director here
at Poetry Center who invited me to read before she moved
on last spring, I think it was.