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Hello, everyone, welcome.

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We're so glad you're here.

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Welcome to the Poetry Center.

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Happy monsoon, you get
a little bit of rain.

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Yeah, we can applaud,
it's been hot.

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[APPLAUSE]

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I'm always looking
for cheap applause.

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My name is Tyler.

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I work here as the executive
director at the Poetry Center,

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and we're really glad you
guys chose to be here tonight

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with us.

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This reading tonight
features our summer resident.

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And the residency program
here at the Poetry Center

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is a program that's been in
place for a long, long time.

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It dates all the
way back to the time

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when Alison Deming was here
as the director of the Poetry

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Center.

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It's been happening since 1994.

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And it's offered
writers an opportunity

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to develop their work.

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And it's been a chance
for them to come

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be in residence in
Tucson, participate

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in the life of the Center, the
life of Tucson, and all of us,

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and then to share with us
what they've been working on

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and what they've
been thinking about.

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We're really excited that
Hieu Minh Nguyen is here

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to share his work
with us tonight,

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and I can't wait to hear it.

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I will introduce Taneum
first, and then I'll

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introduce Sara Wolfe
Vaughan second.

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And Taneum will introduce
Hieu, and Sara will introduce

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Matt, who's here as well.

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Matt Bell is here
from ASU, and we're

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so excited that he's come down
to be with us tonight as well.

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Taneum Bambrick is a
poetry MFA candidate, here

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at the University of Arizona.

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She serves as poetry editor
for Narrative Magazine

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and recently as an editorial
assistant at Copper Canyon

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Press.

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She's published
work in Gap Tooth

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and in the Nashville Review.

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And Sarah Wolfe Vaughan is
on the precipice of receiving

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her MFA in fiction--

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it's a scary edge.

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She's currently working on
a post-apocalyptic novel,

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set in New Mexico.

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So welcome everyone,
we're glad you're here.

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Taneum, you can come
up and introduce Hieu.