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Hi, everyone.

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Welcome to the Poetry Center.

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We're very excited
for tonight's reading

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with Lehua Taitano
and Bojan Louis,

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who will be reading for about
20 minutes, each of them.

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We're going to have
Lehua read first,

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and then Bojan will read after.

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Before we begin,
I just want to--

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I have a few announcements, one
of which is, I'm Diana Delgado.

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I'm the literary director
here at the Poetry Center.

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Yay.

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[LAUGHTER]

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One year down.

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One year down.

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[APPLAUSE]

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[LAUGHS] I write, June,
and then desert took over.

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So a few things.

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This is for those of you if
you're looking for something

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to do in the Arizona heat.

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Wednesday, July 31, we have
our last summer social,

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which is a Whitman
summer social.

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And it's going to be poetry
selections from the Arizona

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Friends of Chamber Music.

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And that's going to
be over at the Copper

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Room at Hotel Congress,
Wednesday, July 31 at 5:30.

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So come by.

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And then the other thing
I wanted to mention

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is that we offer classes and
workshops here at the Poetry

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Center.

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I'm not sure if
everyone knows that.

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But every season, we have at
least four to five classes

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that we offer.

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And we also offer scholarships.

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So if you feel that you're
in need of a scholarship,

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all you need to do is apply.

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And our scholarship deadline is
going to be Tuesday, July 30.

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So definitely,
you can go online,

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look at the classes
you'd like to take,

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apply for the scholarship, and
then we take it from there.

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So to begin, I'm going to
introduce Lehua, a very short,

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brief introduction.

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And then Susan Briante will
be introducing Bojan Louis.

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And don't forget, we have books
for sale always, to my right.