And ambassador magazines, he also has talked about john to touro, the labor journalist, for the National Education association for a decade, he has won numerous awards and has digital poetry book, the list goes on and on. Various awards like the digital Book Publishers of america in 2014 and if there is anything i left out, please i dont need that appear. Thank you, joann. We deserve to remember in the annals of poetry, i never had a poet get the words katana and madonna in the same phrase. It is priceless, really priceless. A number of people, former colleagues from the cuomo administration, new friend, fellow writers i have met here, representatives of 50 colleges and universities, sharing the panel with fred, i was working on an article 20 years ago for ambassador magazine about stereotyping against italianamericans and who did i call but the expert where fred was, we chatted a long time, we had never met in person until today. It is pretty awesome for me to be here with fred on the