[APPLAUSE]
Wow.
Well, it's hard to follow such a generous introduction.
Thank you so much, Susan.
And I have many thanks to offer here.
But I'll keep it very short.
But I am so grateful to everyone at the Poetry Center,
to Tyler and to Paola and to Julie
and to everyone I've been working with,
everyone who has brought me here.
And this place, I had the great privilege of--
I wasn't even really steering the ship at that point.
It was a self-driving car, I have to say.
I got to sit in the seat for a year.
And it was 30 years ago that I was here in Tucson.
And I came here and I fell in love with the Poetry Center,
with its mission, with what it does,
and with the people who made this possible.
Tucson is one of the great literary cities of this country,
and it is a great joy to return here.
So thank you to everyone.