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Hello and welcome.

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My name is Renee Angle.

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I'm the program coordinator
here at the Poetry Center

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and I'd like to welcome you
tonight to the Mary Ann Campau

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Fellowship Reading,
featuring this year's

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recipient, Liza Porter.

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[APPLAUSE]

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Before we get started
I'm going to make

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some brief announcements.

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On Thursday-- about upcoming
events here at the Center--

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on Thursday, April 1 at
5:30 PM, Annie Guthrie

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will lead a closer look book
club discussion of Samedi

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the Deafness, by Jesse Ball.

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You can purchase a
copy at the front desk

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if you'd like to join in the
conversation on April 1st.

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Tuesday, March 30 at 6:00
PM, um, the next event

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in Unsettling Certainties
Conversations in the Humanities

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series will be central
productions, pictures, poems,

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and performances.

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It takes place at the
Poetry Center here

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and it will be a multimedia
panel of scholars

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and performance artists
who explore visual, sonic,

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and embodied
landscapes to consider

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the ways in which cultural
practices may be understood.

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The Mary Ann Campau--

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Memorial Fellowship for
Southern Arizona poets

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recognizes talented writers
who strengthen and inspire

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our literary landscape.

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I would like to take a moment
to thank the friends of the Mary

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Ann Campau who helped to make
this fellowship possible.

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In addition to the
stewardship of Pam--

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Pamela Uschuk Bill Root,
and Toni Lieberman.

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A resident of Tucson for
40 years, Mary Ann Campau

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was a devoted supporter
of poetry and poets

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in our community.

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She was a well-loved
and much loved

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public school teacher
who retired in 1989 when

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she began to take workshops
at the Poetry Center

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with Richard Siken
and Richard Shelton.

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And then through the
Writing Work Center

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with William Pitt Root
and Pamela Uschuk.

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These workshops
sparked a passion

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for poetry and a dedication
to her local poetry community.

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Mary Ann hosted writing
classes with guest poets

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in her own home, provided
grants to writers who could not

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otherwise afford
to attend these,

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and she attended,
supported, and participated

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in numerous local
reading series.

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And through her
own enthusiasm she

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cultivated new
audiences for poetry.

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Her poems were published
in local journals including

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Sand Cutters and
the Tucson Poet,

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and in 2001 she
published a full length

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collection of her own poetry,
Like a Water Weed Ghost.

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We're so pleased that
this year Liza Porter

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has received this fellowship.