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I'm Bonnie Jean Michalski.

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I'm editor associate
at the Poetry Center,

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and I'm going to be
introducing Dan Waber today.

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First I want to encourage
everyone to move closer,

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if you're in the back.

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All of the workshops wil have
a slightly more intimate crowd

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than the readings and we should
all get to know one another.

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Dan Waber explores, makes
and loves so many things

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so deeply that the best
I can do is to sample

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from as many projects
and many loves.

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Dan Waber is co-editor
along with his wife Jennifer

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Hill of Paper Kite Press.

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Ongoing Paper Kite
Press projects include--

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This Is Visual Poetry,
a series of full color

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chapbooks answering the
question what is visual poetry.

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And recent Paper Kite
Press publications

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include Poem, Home, an
anthology of Ars Poetica.

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And last year they
opened Paper Kite Books

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in Pennsylvania, which
offers unusual books

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for unusual people.

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Dan is also a visual poet.

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A sampling of his
visual poetry includes

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Beasties, Monsters Made Up,
Monsters Made Up for Made Up

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Monster Names' Names.

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I cannot do this
project justice,

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you'll have to visit
logolalia.com/beasties to see

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how unique it is.

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And it's a good way to see how
playful Dan's particular brand

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of intelligence can be.

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Make sure also to check
out his String poems

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featured on vispo.com in which
language argues with itself,

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words seduce each other,
and letters create

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a wonderfully tangly logic.

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Dan is also a sound poet
and a scholar and lover

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of sound poetry.

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The first time I encountered
Dan he gave a reading for Chax

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Press at Club Congress
here in Tucson

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and he recited at the
[? Pinnacle ?] Poem,

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with the kind of nuance
and artistic force that

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can be achieved only
by intimate knowledge

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of and deep love for
your subject matter.

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He blew me away and I've enjoyed
following his work since.

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Dan says language is broken,
some schools of poetry

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sit on the floor
and cry about it.

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Others look at the
pieces and say,

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what can we make out of this?

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Maybe the page is
broken, maybe it's not.

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No matter what the
crisis or call to action

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is that brought us
all to this symposium,

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I'm thrilled about
the opportunity

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to learn from Dan what
can be made out this.

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Please help me
welcome Dan Waber.

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[APPLAUSE]

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