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Hello, everyone.

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Welcome, welcome, welcome.

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We're glad you're here.

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Thanks for coming out.

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Tucson has flipped
its weather patterns.

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It's now cold.

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Many of you grabbed
surveys on the way in.

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There's a request for
mittens next week.

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So we'll have them
for you if we can.

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Happy post-Election Day.

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Also, we get our
commercials back

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and our street corners back,
which is perhaps exciting.

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Thank God.

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It is also a chance,
if you didn't

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get to vote in the election you
can still vote for the Poetry

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Center, if you're interested.

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It is our fall appeal season.

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And so if you are able-- if part
of what you think about when

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you think about what you want
to support the poetry center's

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on that list.

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These envelopes over on the
table over here on my right.

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And so we appreciate
your support.

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We're grateful for it.

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It helps us do all
the things that we do.

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Your vote-- you can still
vote for the Poetry Center.

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We don't have any signs.

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I will be your
sign this evening.

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So you can imagine my request.

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That's as close as I'm going
to come to being a politician

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ever.

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So we've got that over with.

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Speaking of politicians,
you've come tonight

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to hear this reading.

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This is called the lecture--

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The lecture that you're hearing.

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I'm sorry, not the
reading of the lecture.

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The conspiracy simile,
the assassination

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of JFK, the
assassination of poetry,

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or how I discovered I was
writing cover story poetics.

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Be excited.

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This is coming very soon.

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And this lecture is coming to
us from my friend Thomas Sayers

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Ellis who's been living with us
here in Tucson for the past two

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weeks--

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writing poems, hanging out
with us, talking about poetry,

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thinking about poetry, and
taking a lot of pictures.

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Thomas is also a really
incredible photographer.

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There are two events next
week that I want to make sure

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that you guys know about.

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Visiting with us next week is
the poet Robin Robertson, .

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A Scottish poet who's
coming here to Tucson.

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He'll be reading on
Thursday at 7:00 o'clock

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here at the Poetry Center.

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And if you want a
primer on Robin's work

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before he gets here, on
Monday night my colleague,

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Julie Lauterbach-Colby will
be leading the shop talk here

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in this room.

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Those are usually on
Tuesdays, but they'll

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be on Monday of next week
because of the holiday

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for Veterans Day.

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And that's at 6 o'clock here.

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No experience necessary
you can just come and get

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a sort of a primer or
understanding of Robin's work

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before he comes on
Thursday to read.

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So mark your calendars for that.

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That's next week.

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After the lecture tonight
there will be a Q&A. Come in.

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Don't be afraid.

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There's lots of seats.

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There'll be a Q&A afterwards.

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You guys are responsible
for the questions.

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And books will be
for sale up in front.

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And those are 20%
off at the front

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if you buy them tonight and.

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Thomas will be
happy to sign them,

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so be excited about
that, as well.

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There were surveys this
evening as you guys came in.

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Please take the time
to fill them out.

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The surveys help us quite a bit.

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They help us when
we both report on

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and apply for
foundation funding.

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And so if you-- as
compensation for that,

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if you turn it in I understand--

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I don't know where I put it.

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Here's where it is.

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There are little buttons
that have been made, but.

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Each of the buttons has
been created from a photo

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that Thomas took while
he was here in Tucson.

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So--

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Woo-hoo.

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Wow.

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--be excited.

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You can be your own sign.

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Vote Poetry Center.

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So these are available.

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If you want to see the
photos in bigger sizes

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they're on the Poetry Center's
Facebook page right now.

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Thomas's Facebook page has
many, many of his photos,

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beautiful photos.

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So please fill out the
survey this evening,

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turn those in,
perhaps get a button.

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So we're grateful.

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It's my pleasure to
introduce Sam Ace who

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will introduce Thomas.

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Sam is also a tremendous poet
and a tremendous photographer.

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So this is only fitting.

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Please welcome Sam Ace.

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[AUDIENCE APPLAUSE]