fromgertrude stein and jack london in the early 1900s to amy tan and jack mance more recently.e are speaking tonight with two contemporary authors from oakland. clearly motley wrote night crawng. it is been selected as an opera book club novel. the city of oakland began to have an adult program last year. the other guest is the inaugural poet. leila joins us now. thank you for being in the studio with us. >> thank you for having us. >>let's start with the youth program in oakland. you were the poet in 2018. tell us about what you do as a youth poet? >> you do a lot. it ranges from performing at events all over the bay area. often galas in different fundraisers. where people ask you to go and perform a poem and connect with audience and bring people in. people soliciting poems and just being a voice for the city. kind of sharing the perspective of youth. >> you have had a longer career than leila did when she started. as you have become the poet laureate for loveland. what you hope to do with this platform in the inaugural position you're in? >> it's a wonderful place to use my