Thank you so much, Farid.
That was so generous.
I'm very moved.
Thank you.
Thank you, Tyler and Paola and the Poetry Center.
Thank you for coming here on a Thursday evening for poetry.
I'm going to keep my phone so I have my eye on the time.
I did not prepare my set.
I prepared-ish.
So you can hear me, right?
It feels weird to have this here.
I'm just going to-- is it OK if I do this?
Yeah.
So it's not like--
yeah, I think because there is time tonight,
I thought I'd take you through a few books of mine
and start at the beginning, which
is-- this is my baby poet book, To Live
in Autumn, my first book.
I look at so many poems now, and I want to revise them,
but we must love our older poems as well
and extend tenderness towards them.