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Welcome.

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I'm glad you're
all here tonight.

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We do have Martin Espada's
books for sale, courtesy of ASUA

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bookstore, after the reading.

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So please take
advantage of that.

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I'd like to announce a couple
of events that are going

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on in the community this week.

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I think this is right.

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Hugh, correct me.

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Tomorrow night, at
the Shane House,

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there is a reading by the
contest winners among students

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at the University who are
taking the 209 poetry workshop.

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That's at 8 o'clock at
Shane House tomorrow night.

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And Friday night,
in the Chax Press

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reading series,
Here and Now, which

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is being held down at
the Tucson Museum of Art,

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there will be a reading by
Mark Weiss and Arthur Sze.

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I'm really delighted to be
closing our season of ratings

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this fall with a visit
from Martin Espada.

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He comes to us from
Boston, where he works

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as both a poet and a lawyer.

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He's the author of three books
of poetry, The Immigrant Ice

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Boys Bolero, Trumpets From
the Islands of Their Eviction,

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Rebellion is the Circle
of a Lover's Hands.

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And his new book, which
is coming out from Norton,

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characteristically having
an interesting title

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if he can get away with his
publisher, The City of Coughing

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and Dead Radiators.

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His literary awards include
two NEA fellowships,

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the Massachusetts
Arts Fellowship,

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and a PEN/Revson Foundation
Fellowship, among others.

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As you'll hear in his
work, his legal work

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has involved working with and
on behalf of Latino people

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in the Northeast--

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in particular, working with
farmworkers and, more recently,

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low-income tenants.

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He writes hard-edged,
documentary poems,

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which never lose the
capacity for song,

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even when they tell us
the harshest of truths.

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Please welcome Martin Espada.

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[APPLAUSE]

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