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[APPLAUSE]

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Thanks.

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Thanks a lot, Josh.

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Josh is someone that I'd really
be happy to be teaching with,

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and just an admirable
poet, first,

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and an advocate for poetry.

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And yeah, I really like him.

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Don't you guys?

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[LAUGHTER]

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And there's a--

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Jami Macarty is here, who
has a book coming out soon,

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the local poet.

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And celebrate that, too.

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You come up to the
podium, thinking

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of all these things
you want to say,

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and then you
promptly forget them.

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But one of the things is how
I'm just really impressed with--

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one, I mean, this was the
talk of the country when

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they were building
this Poetry Center,

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and it's a beautiful
thing to see.

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I really, really love it.

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I've loved being in
this little studio

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that I haven't
left, even to go out

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into the desert, which I love.

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And then there's some
amazing community.

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That there are 22 docents,
you know, who volunteered to,

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like-- here's to the docents.

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[APPLAUSE]

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Really grateful to them.

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That just says so much
about a community.