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Welcome.

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It's such an honor to
have you all here with us.

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It's such a thrill.

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It's a dream.

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It's a dream come true.

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I just want to welcome
you to this symposium.

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And I should just read this.

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Gail's done all my
thanking for me.

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I just can't say enough
about the support

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we've gotten from our staff.

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And I love you and thank you.

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So in the past, we've
hosted other symposia

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on the topics of Native
voices and conceptual poetry.

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And many of those events, I
just wanted to let you know,

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as well as these, can be viewed
on our online audiovisual

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collection called Voca.

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This weekend, we've invited
18 writers here from all

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over the country to present
hybrid works of poetry that

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engage theatrical, visual,
and sonic elements offered

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by other art forms.

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You may call this symposium,
conference, colloquium,

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carnival, festival, a spectacle.

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The form of the
weekend itself will

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be a hybrid dynamic happening.

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We will perhaps do more
questioning than framing.

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Our experience as
audience members

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no longer passive, but
integral in many cases

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to the making of
the performance.

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Many of the performances
you will see

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are sculpted
improvisatory pieces,

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the artists creating
work for you,

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with you, and because of you.

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In other cases,
poets have generously

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created work specifically
for this symposium.

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It's a rare opportunity for
writers to be commissioned.

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And we were really excited
to be able to bring

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new, never-yet-seen
works to Tucson, work

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that poets will be presenting
here for the first time.

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So questions we've been
thinking about around

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here at the Poetry Center are,
of course, what is a poem if it

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isn't written down?

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When the social space
of the performance

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is considered as publication,
what becomes of the archive?

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Or what does it really become?

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Does hybrid work become a
kind of documentary poetry

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when the source text
is live improvisation?

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When available technology
changes the writing act,

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what happens to the
role of the poem?

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And what are the implications
for literary publishing

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in the digital age?

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How do performance devices
of voice and recitation

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play into the making or changing
of sound or slam poetry?

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And how is that
different or informative

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for practitioners
of poets' theater?

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For an event like,
this it's possible

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also to wonder what will
happen between performances

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and across them.

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And we also look forward to
hearing about the conversations

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and questions you will
have after this symposium,

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and how those inquiries will
transform into your own work.

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So poets have always
turned to other art

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forms for inspiration.

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Branching out into other
realms like film theater,

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digital arts, and music.

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In recent years,
especially though

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it seems that the value of
performance as a poet and craft

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element has gained new
authority and importance.

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The poets you'll
see this weekend

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are inventors and innovators
in this multivalent literary

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landscape.

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I'll just talk briefly
tonight about the performances

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you're going to see.

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Our artists will
all be introduced

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by some of our
favorite local poets,

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and writers, and artists.

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And afterwards,
we'll hold a Q&A.

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So you can have a chance
to ask the questions.

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Tonight, we present sonic lens
featuring the three artists

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who engage with
audio visual elements

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as conceptual constraints
in diverse ways

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and who each address
different manifestations

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of the unknowable.

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For instance, sonic
or filmic violences

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can have political, visceral,
and/or spiritual, even

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mystical implication.

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Aural layering as
poetic craft element

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takes a primary role, whether
a soundtrack sampling,

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or inflection, whether melodic,
harmonic, or dissonant.

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The relationship
sound has to project

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or imagined image is amplified
and purposefully complicated.

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Their text image problem
rendered here in hybrid form

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becomes the poet's new syntax.

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Tonight, Christine
Hume will perform

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her sculpted soundscapes in
a 3D DJ play of labyrinth

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of political sampling.

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And Claudia Rankine
continues in her walk.

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The walk of political and
social engagement as they

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best meet her poetry expansive
personally transformative

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facts.

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In this case, manifesting
form as an essay.

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Cecilia Vicuna purposefully
works with her environment

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to engage in touch the energy
of the audience and the place

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she's in in order to
shape her poem song

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into a chanting
tramps made of chants.

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And tomorrow is packed again
with classes, panels, parties,

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talks, and workshops culminating
with an evening of performances

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at the Rogue, where
poets will perform.

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Miraculously diverse
iterations of poets theater.

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That's a term we're borrowing.

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To include all those
writers who engage

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in the vocabulary of the stage,
including voice projection,

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sound props, and acting.

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Sunday will promise to continue
to dazzle with the panel

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on righting the body.

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A performance with poet
librettist and performative

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type biographer Douglas
Kearney, and a screening

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of original never yet seen home
films and video essays by poets

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from around the country,
who were specifically

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commissioned by the
center for this symposium.

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And finally, you
will have a chance

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for community discussion
in an open forum led

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by our own Joshua
Marie Wilkinson.

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So thank you so
much for being here.

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It's just a delight
to have you here

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to help us celebrate
poetry off the page.

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Welcome.

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