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Hello, everyone.

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Thanks for patience and welcome
to the very first reading

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of 2014, this brilliant
and lovely new year

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that we find ourselves
in; a year which

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promises many fascinating
and new things that

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will dramatically
improve all of our lives.

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I'm sure you've looked at
these things online that exist,

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including a combined double
headline summer tour of Journey

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and Steve Miller coming
to a city near you.

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The Tucson Streetcar
comes this year.

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Woo!

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We can be excited.

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He says-- there's skepticism.

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[LAUGHTER]

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I heard a little.

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A tiny bit, just a little bit.

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The FIFA World Cup
will make us all

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wish that we lived in Brazil.

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There's a terrific
new website that's

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coming from the Poetry Center.

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Be excited.

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Yay!

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It'll be even easier to
track down the things

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that we're doing and
learn about all the things

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that are happening here.

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It's going to be a big year.

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Don't depend on
serendipity to learn

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about what we're up
to, however, and this

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is a thing I want to point out.

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We do have copies of
our spring calendar,

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the things that we're
doing, and the print

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edition that's over there.

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We also have an iPad.

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And so the iPad will very
easily and seamlessly

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take your information, and
then you'll just get emails.

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And they'll remind you
about all that we're up to.

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So if you have not signed
up for our mailing list

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and are not worried about
getting an email a week,

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an innocuous email a week
from the Poetry Center,

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I encourage you to do that.

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There are other goodies
that come in those emails

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and so it's worth doing.

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Both of those things that are
over here on the side table.

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I am Tyler Meier and I
work as the Executive

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Director of the
Poetry Center here

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at the University of Arizona.

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And it's my pleasure
to welcome you

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this evening to a reading
featuring the inimitable Tan

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Lin.

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Some quick thank you's to
begin with, very quickly.

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We continue to be grateful
to the University of Arizona

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Foundation and the
Office of the Senior Vice

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President for Research
for awarding the Community

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Connections Grant to
the Reading Series

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that partially underwrites
this reading this evening.

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Thank you, thank you, thank you
to the University of Arizona

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Foundation for that grant.

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[APPLAUSE]

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Woo-hoo!

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But second, thank
you to everyone

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who participated in our
annual Giving Campaign

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at the end of the year for 2013.

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Funds that we were
able to raise,

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those funds are the
dollars that we depend on

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to fund in our program
in the upcoming year,

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and we significantly
depend on that to support.

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So whether you participated
at the friends level

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or as a member of
the Whitman Circle,

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we cannot really thank you
enough at all for that help.

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We depend on it.

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It's critical support.

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So thank you again to
everybody who participated

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in those campaigns.

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[APPLAUSE]

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If you didn't, but
you're excited about it,

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next to the IPad.

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[LAUGHTER]

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You'll find things.

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There's envelopes.

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We're going to
forego a Q&A tonight,

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and Tan will have Q&A moments
in-between in his talk,

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and he'll direct you to that.

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So no formal Q&A at
the end as per usual,

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but instead, questions
and answers throughout.

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This is an exciting reading.

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There is a lot of technology
happening in this room in ways

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that I'd never seen before
right before dinner, including

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a ladder.

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So things happened and
there will be results.

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Be excited.

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We have tons of books
for sale this evening

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Poetry Center docents Mark
and Christine are here,

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and they can satisfy any
of your book-buying urges,

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and Tan will satisfy
any of your book signing

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urges when he is done speaking.

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It's my pleasure now
to introduce to you

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and welcome Will Cordeiro,
who will introduce Tan,

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and we'll get this event
off to a great start.

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Will has just completed
his PhD in literature

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at the Cornell University.

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He's also a poet whose
work has recently

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appeared in Burnt District,
Copper Nickel, Crab Orchard

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Review, Drunken Boat, Fourteen
Hills, Sentence, South Dakota

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Review and elsewhere.

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He's teaching a class
for the Poetry Center

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this spring on the New
York School of Poets.

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He's a dedicated Poetry
Center volunteer.

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We're so grateful for
all the things he's done,

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and continues to do
for the Poetry Center.

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Please welcome Will Cordeiro.

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[APPLAUSE]