for a city that is more than a place of surrounding cities and where they dump their words of ishmael reedand it's a great pleasure to welcome jerry with -- judy juanita the ceremony and "manhattan my ass, you are in oakland" with american book award. judy thank you for joining us today. you are muted there. you are muted judy, you can't hear you. >> unmute. good, good. the first thing i want to say thank you, thank you. i want to squirrel myself away and buy all these books and read them because i love all the premises that i've heard so far and thank you for allowing me to be in this company. i graciously accept this american book award for my poetry collection. "manhattan my ass, you are in oakland." i'm so honored for my work to be recognized as can shooting to diversity of american literature. oakland, my oakland. oakland is of american cities. they will keep rediscovering oakland and when they do they uncover more treasures. they get more gold but it seems that it is endless and we hope it is. my parents albert h. hart jr. and marguerite juanita hart migrated here in the 30s and the