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Thank you so much for
joining us tonight

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for a lecture by visiting
author Margarita Engle entitled

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"Finding the Poetry in History."

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Margarita is here as part of the
Poetry Center's spring reading

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series.

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She's also been kind enough
to spend much of her time

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participating in our matinee
program through which she'll

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be giving readings to
students at Tucson-area grade

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and high schools as well as
delivering the lecture tonight.

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I'd like to give a special
thanks to the UA Foundation

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for sponsoring our
2013-'14 reading series,

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to the Act One Foundation, to
the Pitt Family Foundation,

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and to TCI Wealth Advisors
for sponsoring the additional

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outreach programs
that are components

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of Margarita's visit.

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After the lecture, there'll be
a brief Q&A session during which

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you'll have the opportunity
to ask Margarita questions

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pertaining to the lecture.

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You'll also notice
that afterwards we're

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going to have stacks of
books for sale up front,

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so please stick around and
mingle and purchase a book

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if you're interested.

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Here tonight to
introduce Margarita

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is a student who's been teaching
through our matinee program.

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She's from the Honors College.

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Please help me to
welcome Rachel Francher.

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[APPLAUSE]