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Hello, everyone, and welcome.

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My name is Gail Browne.

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I'm executive director
here at the Poetry Center.

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Thanks for coming out tonight.

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We have a Q and A with Fanny Howe.

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We're very happy to
have her with us.

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Last night, poet Michael
Rerick, sitting back there,

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led us in a great, lively,
provocative Shop Talk

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on Fanny's poetry.

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But tonight, we
have the opportunity

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to ask her directly
what we've been

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longing to know about her
work, about her approach

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to her craft.

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And I want to welcome you back
tomorrow night at 7 o'clock

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right here to hear Fanny read.

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This event is made
possible through a grant

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from the National Endowment
for the Arts and contributions

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from people like you.

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Tonight, we are especially
grateful to our Walt Whitman

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Circle members.

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And if you'd like to make a
contribution to the Center

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or learn more about the
Walt Whitman program,

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feel free to grab me later
afterwards on this reading,

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or speak to the ladies, our
docents, Mary and Jessie

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at the table, where
they will also

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be happy to sell books to you.

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And Fanny will sign them
later after the Q and A.

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Fanny Howe is the
author of over 30 books,

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including poetry,
fiction, and essays.

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Many of us have been
reading her 2009

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book of essays, Winter's Son--

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Notes on a Vocation, and her
most recent book of poetry,

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Come and See.

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Fanny taught for many
years with the University

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of California, San Diego.

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And she just left this post
as a writer in residence

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at the Lannan Center for
Poetics and Social Practice

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in Georgetown University.

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She lives in Massachusetts.

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And we're grateful to have her
back with us here in Tucson

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after nearly 10 years.

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How this is going
to work is Fanny

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is going to come up here and
sit right here and talk to us.

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And because we're recording--
we're audio recording this

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presentation--

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Cybele over there will
probably repeat your question

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after you ask it so we make
sure to get everything on tape.

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So please welcome Fanny Howe.

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[APPLAUSE]

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