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My name is Melissa
Buckheit and I'm

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going to be moderating
this evening.

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Um, I'd like to welcome you
to the second annual Tucson

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Festival of Books,
but you already

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know that because you're here.

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And I particularly want to
thank the UA Poetry Center, Chax

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Press, POG, Casa Libre en
la Solana, Sonora Review,

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the Tucson Poetry Festival,
um, for sponsoring this year's

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events and working hard.

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And especially Gail
Browne and Cybele Knowles

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for all their persistence,
effort, and making everything

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come together in the end.

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Yes, I don't know where she is.

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She's over there.

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[APPLAUSE]

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So the reading will be about one
hour and we'll have a question

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and answer period afterwards
for about 10 or 15 minutes,

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so you can hold your
questions until then.

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We have a mic, we'll
pass it around and, um,

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a slight adjustment
to yesterday's events

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in the afternoon, if you
want to have your book signed

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by Anne or Laynie when you
want to purchase a book,

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we have them for sale here.

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Up there, a variety of their
books as well as the authors

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who read earlier in the day.

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We're going to do the
signing here in the space.

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We're not going to
be going to tent C,

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so you can just hang out
here, talk to the authors,

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get your book signed, OK?

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Um, the first reader this
evening is Laynie Browne.

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It's my pleasure to
introduce her and tell you

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a little bit about her work.

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Laynie Browne was born in 1966
and grew up in Los Angeles.

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She received a BA in
English literature

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from the University of
California Berkeley in 1988

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and an MFA from Brown
University in 1990.

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With others, she
curated the fellow--

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the poetry series,
"The Ear Inn",

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in New York City
from 1992 to 1995.

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She received a fellowship from
the MacDowell Colony in 1992

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and was awarded the Gertrude
Stein award in innovative

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poetry three times in '93-'94,
'94-'95, and '95 and '96.

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Her work was anthologized--
anthologized, excuse me,

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in the book, The Poet's
Choice, edited by Robert Hass.

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She is the author of multiple
collections of poetry and one

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novel, including Hereditary
Zones, One Constellation,

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Rebecca Letters, Lore, Acts of
Levitation, The Agency of Wind,

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Pollen Memory, Mermaid's Purse,
Clepsydra, A Scented Fox,

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which was the recipient of the
2005 National Poetry Series

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award, and Daily
Sonnets, as well

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as Drawing A Swan Before Memory,
some of her more recent books.

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Two additional collections
are forthcoming,

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The Desires of Letters and
Roseate and Points Of Gold.

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She has taught creative writing
for Teachers and Writers

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Collective in New York City,
as well as the University

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of Washington and Mills
College, and she currently

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works at the Poetry
Center here in Tucson.

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Laynie Browne's
work can be named

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many things, um, reading her
work I found that to be true.

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Often, it contradicted
itself again and again,

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only arriving at the same place
and a new place simultaneously.

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It can be called conceptual,
fanciful, deeply serious,

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elusive, complex, playful,
and deeply perceptive all

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at the same time.

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Creating worlds peopled with
characters and corridors

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of language, which
build upon themselves

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like labyrinths,
verdant, thicket,

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and hedge, behind which lays
the complex relationships

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between ideas, objects,
human relationships,

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and the continuous
stream of data

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we all encounter every day.

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The skein of Laynie's
poetry, a bundle or web

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of numerous colors and
fibers, always reveals itself

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to us, her reader, imbued with
a dye of her endless imagination

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and for this we are grateful.

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Please help me to
welcome, Laynie.

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[APPLAUSE]

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