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Thanks.
Thanks a lot, Josh.
Josh is someone that I'd really be happy to be teaching with,
and just an admirable poet, first,
and an advocate for poetry.
And yeah, I really like him.
Don't you guys?
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And there's a--
Jami Macarty is here, who has a book coming out soon,
the local poet.
And celebrate that, too.
You come up to the podium, thinking
of all these things you want to say,
and then you promptly forget them.
But one of the things is how I'm just really impressed with--
one, I mean, this was the talk of the country when
they were building this Poetry Center,
and it's a beautiful thing to see.
I really, really love it.
I've loved being in this little studio
that I haven't left, even to go out
into the desert, which I love.
And then there's some amazing community.
That there are 22 docents, you know, who volunteered to,
like-- here's to the docents.
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Really grateful to them.
That just says so much about a community.