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All right, now Genine Lentine.

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Genine Lentine is the
author of the chapbooks

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Mr. Worthington's
Beautiful Experiments

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on Splashes and Poses: An
Essay Drawn from the Model.

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She's the co-author
of The Wild Braid:

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A Poet Reflects on a
Century in the Garden,

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and her poems,
essays, and interviews

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have appeared in everywhere from
Diagram to The Oprah Magazine,

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so she's got a beautiful range.

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And I've had the pleasure
of working with Genine

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over the past few weeks.

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The other day, I thought
about how everyday

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she brings some new adventure
to the Poetry Center.

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And she just has so much
curiosity, and light.

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And whether it's
arranging her manuscript

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on the windows of the
guest house, which

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is just so awesome to go
to her and say, how are you

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doing today?

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And she said, well I'm
rearranging my manuscript,

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and she has all these
pages taped onto the walls,

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and it's just amazing to
see the artist at work.

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And from doing that to--

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the other day,
she came and said,

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you know, I was talking
to some scientists,

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and I want to write these
sonnets that combine

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science and carbon dating.

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And I'm just like, wow.

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So she always has
something new to bring.

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And as Laynie said, in addition
to coming here to write,

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she's also taken her residency
to a whole other level

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as an educator.

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And she's holding a workshop
here at the Poetry Center

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this Saturday, and the past
three Mondays she's filled up

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the library with people
from the community,

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and having these one
on one poetry sessions

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where they talk about poetry,
and workshop their writings.

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So she's really a triple whammy.

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She's brought so much
to the Poetry Center.

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And she's just been a
tremendous gift, not only to us

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but to the whole community.

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So please welcome
Genine Lentine.

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[APPLAUSE]

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