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My name is Matt Cleland.

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I'm a graduate student
taking the course Poetics

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and Politics.

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Now to introduce our
guest this evening

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is Sherrie Stewart,
a PhD student in AIS.

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Thank you Matt.

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And Stacey Oberly is pushing
the space button for me.

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I'm technology-- not too
well with technology.

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I'm going to bring the mic down.

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Thank you very much.

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Thank you.

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Not as tall as Matt either.

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Good evening to everyone.

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It is my distinct
pleasure and honor

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to introduce our poet tonight.

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Dr. Zepeda is a Regent
Professor here at the University

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of Arizona in linguistics.

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She holds a MacArthur
Fellowship and has

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been named the Poet Laureate
for the city of Tucson.

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She has worked for
native language

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revitalization
throughout the years.

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To that end, she is also the
director of the American Indian

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Language Development
Institute, which

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is held here on the campus of
the university each summer.

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She authored three
books of poetry--

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Ocean Power, Earth
Movements, and Where

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Clouds Are Formed, which she
will be reading from tonight.

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And if you want to see
some of her other work,

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you can look on boulders
along Mountain Avenue, where

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her bilingual poetry is
engraved just north of campus.

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So please, join me in
greeting Dr. Ofelia Zepeda.

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[APPLAUSE]

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