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I got some stuff hidden in here.

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Thank you, Elizabeth,
for that introduction.

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Thank you all for being here.

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50th anniversary.

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It's really nice to be back
in Tucson, see all my friends.

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And I got a couple of thank
yous to say to everybody

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at the Poetry Center.

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We've been here
for about a week,

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and it's been really amazing.

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I've been going between there
and there in my slippers.

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A lot.

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And Cybele, Gail,
Wendy, Julie, Renee.

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Janice had me into
some of her classes.

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I want to say thanks to Kate.

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It's really great to
finally meet Kate,

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and to read with her, and Brent,
and Zia, and Chicken, and Hawk,

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and the whole gang.

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Ander Monson published
my first chapbook.

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He also published the
broadside tonight.

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I think he already skipped
out and went to the bar.

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But thanks, Ander.

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And all my Tucson friends.

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You're still here.

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Some of you guys
have moved back,

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and it's really
great to see you all.

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And I got to thank my teachers.

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Jane shredded my
bones when I was here.

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Shredded them.

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There was-- there was a
moment where, I remember,

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I used to live over on First
Street near Fourth Avenue.

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And I rode my little, sad
bicycle home one night

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and I was like, well, I'm done.

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It was good.

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She was good, she was good.

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Alison Hawthorne Deming, Tenney.

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That passion.

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You know, I was
going to read from--

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I edited this anthology
called Poets on Teaching,

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and it talks a little bit about
Tenney in the beginning of it.

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And I was going to
read from that tonight,

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but I think I've
humiliated Tenney enough.

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But there's a little
paragraph in there

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about what it's like to
be in a class with Tenney

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when you are looking at
an Emily Dickinson poem,

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or a Frank O'Hara poem.

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And it's pretty much the best
thing I've ever been a part of.

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And so thanks.

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Thanks, Tenney, and Boyer, too.

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All of you guys.

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It's really great
to see you again.

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Thank you for coming.

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I wanted to read a
Jon Anderson poem,

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and commemorate my
half of the evening

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to Jon, along with Steve,
and I think that's all right.

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It's a little one.

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It's called "Beginning Again."

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"I'll go there.

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I can see myself
close to the dead.

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Like a child with no coat,
like a man without words.

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Then I will respect happiness."

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