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Hello, everyone.

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Welcome.

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How are you all?

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[CROWD NOISE]

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Pretty good.

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Good?

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Yeah.

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My inner teacher
says, how are you all?

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But good, I'm glad
everyone's well.

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Welcome to the Poetry Center.

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Glad everyone's here.

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My name is Tyler Meier.

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

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Happy to have a great big crowd
here on a beautiful Thursday

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night in Tucson.

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And a beautiful Tucson
we find ourselves in.

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And I'm so grateful for a
full, hearty, spring season.

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May it last deep into
April, and maybe May.

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Glad you're here.

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Happy to open these
doors tonight, and have

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some night air with us.

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I want to welcome
all of you to this,

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which is the fourth annual
Hannelore Quander-Rattee

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reading that we've held
here at the Poetry Center,

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in honor and in memory of one
of Tucson's great translators,

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Hannelore Quander-Rattee.

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A fixture of
Tucson's poetry scene

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since the late 70s, where she
co-directed the Mosaic Reading

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Series.

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She served on the Tucson Poetry
Festival planning committee.

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She put the "biz" in the
Bisbee Poetry Festival.

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[LAUGHTER]

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She was managing editor of the
Prickly Pear Tucson, a poetry

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quarterly.

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Especially fond of the
work of Gunter Eich,

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her translation of his
radio play, Tiger Jussuf,

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was produced by
Arizona Public Radio.

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We celebrate her memory
with this reading series,

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which has brought a rich set
of poets to Tucson already,

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including Geoffrey Brock, Fady
Joudah, Marilyn Hacker, and now

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Forrest Gander.

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We're excited that Michael
Rattee and his son Kiev Rattee

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are here with us tonight.

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Thank you.

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