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Hello, everyone.

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Welcome.

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We're glad you're here on
a breezy Tucson day, a very

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beautiful Tucson day.

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Thanks for choosing to be
here at the Poetry Center.

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We're so excited about what
we're doing here today.

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We're celebrating the opening
reception for an exhibit

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that we're cohosting here at the
Poetry Center with the Poetry

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Foundation, a group
out of Chicago, one

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of our peers on a national
level for what we're doing here

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at the Poetry Center.

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And we're just so thrilled
about collaborating

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with them for this particular
installation and exhibit

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that we're doing here
at the Poetry Center.

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This exhibit is
called "Shame Every

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Rose, Images from Afghanistan."

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It includes images that are
taken by the photographer

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Seamus Murphy, as well as
the landay couplet form.

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And you'll hear more
about that tonight.

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This is a form that I
know through reading

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and that I'm excited to hear
from people who are more expert

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than me about.

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But this is a form that has
been translated, transcribed,

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by Eliza Griswold.

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There's good news and
bad news about Eliza,

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and I'll get to
that in a second.

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But I just want to quickly say
is that we have visitors who

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are here from the
Poetry Foundation

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that I just want to acknowledge.

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Again, this wouldn't be
possible without their support,

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major supporters of this
exhibit in particular.

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And so Robert Polito is here
from the Poetry Foundation.

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He's the president
here in the front row.

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We're so happy to have him here.

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[APPLAUSE]

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Katherine Litwin is here.

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Katherine is the librarian
at the Poetry Foundation.

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She's right here as well.

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[APPLAUSE]

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She brought her beautiful,
four-month-old daughter

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Jolene with her, who is
wonderful, who is not here,

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who is sleeping.

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And it's not because
this will be boring.

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It's just because she's a baby.

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And then also we have
with us Fred Sasaki.

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Fred is the art director
for Poetry Magazine

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and an agitator for many good
things at the Poetry Foundation

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as I've learned,
as he's been here,

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so Fred Sasaki is here as well.

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So thank you.

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[APPLAUSE]

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Thank you to the Poetry
Foundation for that support.

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They originally
commissioned and helped

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publish the first part of this.

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This is from Poetry
Magazine that--

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the part that led to
what this exhibit is.

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And this is a collection that
includes the translated landays

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as well as images
from Seamus Murphy's

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work as a photographer.

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And the exhibit has
grown out of this.

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This magazine-- this issue
of the magazine has sold out,

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and it has grown
into this, which

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is a book that's just out from
Farrar, Straus, and Giroux.

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The hardcover has
been out for a while.

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This is the paperback
copy that we were

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lucky to arrange to have here.

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The paperback doesn't come
out for a few more weeks,

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so-- but they sent
them to Tucson.

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This is called I Am the
Beggar of the World.

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Copies of this book will be for
sale afterwards across the way.

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So we're, again, very,
very excited about this,

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excited about the
history for how

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this has happened, and
excited to have this

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here at the Poetry Center.

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I would be remiss
also if I did not

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think Wendy Burk, the Poetry
Center's librarian, who

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made initial connections to get
this exhibit to travel here.

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Wendy, where are you?

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You are right there.

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[APPLAUSE]

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So, yeah.

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Eternally grateful for Wendy's
creativity, her wisdom,

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and her interest in
all things poetry

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and how to make good things
happen here in Tucson.

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And so she makes me
very good at my job,

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and I'm thankful to Wendy on
most days, almost every day.

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Thank you.

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[LAUGHTER]

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Every day.

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Every day.

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Every day.

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Don't ask me how
to catalogue books.

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This is why Wendy is amazing.

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I also want to thank the Center
for Middle Eastern studies

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and the Office for Continuing
and Professional Education

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housed in the Office
of Global Initiatives

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for their additional support
of the event this evening.

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We have two upcoming
events at the center

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that I'll just
brief you on quickly

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before getting out of the way.

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One is March 11 in
the Hillman Audium,

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is our space just out front
here, where the window

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cantilevers out over.

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There will be a reading and talk
entitled "Women Writing War".

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And this will feature poets
Somaya Ramesh and Farzana

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Marie.

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This will be at 5:00 PM.

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This is, again, March 11,
5:00 PM, Hillman Odeum.

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You can learn more
from the flyers

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that we have that are
over in the reception?

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The flyers will be
in the reception?

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Over here.

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On the table over here.

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You can find more on the
flyers on the table over here.

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The next night, on March
12, we have the next reading

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in our Poetics and
Politics series.

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Ofelia Zepeda will be reading.

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And that will be 7:00 PM here in
this room at the Poetry Center.

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The bad news about Eliza
is that she could not

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get out of New York
City to be here today,

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and the weather was impossible.

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Flights were canceled, and
it just could not happen.

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The good news is she's
recorded some remarks

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and sent them to us.

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And so we're excited to show
those to you this evening.

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And so we'll have Eliza's
comments about this

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and what she's excited
about in being here.

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Seamus Murphy's here,
which we're really pleased.

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He beat the storm, which
is a good thing to beat.

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It's my pleasure to
introduce Fred Sasaki--

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again, the art director
at Poetry Magazine.

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And he's going to
come introduce what

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you will hear about afterwards.

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And then we'll
have some comments

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and then we'll have a screening,
a talk, some questions.

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Then we'll move
over to reception

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and go through the
exhibit for ourselves

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with some wine and some cookies.

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We're glad you're here.

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Without further
ado, Fred Sasaki.

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Thank you.