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Thank you, Tyler.

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Really thank you
everyone at the Center.

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And thank you all for
coming out so much.

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I will read to you
one of the landays.

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"I'll make a tattoo
from my lover's blood

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and shame every
rose in the garden."

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So this landay is attributed
to the Afghan folk hero

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Malalai who is a Pashtun poet,
a warrior, and a woman who

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fought alongside the Commander
Ayub Khan to great victory.

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So I'll say that
when Katherine--

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when my counterpart at the
Poetry Foundation Gallery

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assembled this exhibit,
we found that when

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we put two images together,
a third image would lift off

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the first two.

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And it was in that
collaboration or the resonance

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between those two images
that we found most striking.

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So I sort of--

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I'm here to say here's
to collaborations

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and here's to great pairings.

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This exhibit I feel is of
so many tremendous pairings.

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There are the lines of
the landay itself paired.

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There is the image
and the word "paired."

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In the exhibit, there's the
image and the image paired.

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We have the Poetry Foundation
and the University of Arizona

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Poetry Center paired.

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And then we have the two great
artists who created this work--

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Seamus Murphy and
Eliza Griswold.

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And I think you could read more
about their great achievements.

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But what I want to
say is that these

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are people who do baffling
things with their talent,

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and their dedication,
and their willingness

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to risk everything
for poetry, but more

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profoundly for other people.

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And on that note, I'd like us
to have a moment of silence

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for the women of these
images, and of these poems,

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and for all of the things
that we do not see,

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and that we cannot say,
and that we cannot read.

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Thank you so much.

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And so now we will have
some comments via technology

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from Eliza Griswold.

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Thank you.