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Hello, everyone.

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We'll go ahead and get started.

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Welcome to the Poetry Center.

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My name is Cybele
Knowles, and I'm

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the coordinator of the Poetry
Center's reading and lecture

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series.

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And we are delighted to be
kicking off our spring semester

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with a week-long visit
from poet David Rivard.

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I feel like this is blocking me.

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OK.

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In addition to
presenting tonight's talk

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about the legacy of
the New York School,

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David will read from his
poetry this Thursday, 7:00 PM,

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in this room.

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And I hope you can all
make it back for that.

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It's going to be wonderful.

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Before we dive in, I just
have a few announcements.

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First of all, we're
grateful to the NEA

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and to the Poetry
Center's private donors

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for making all our reading and
lecture series events possible.

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As you know if you've looked
at our spring calendar,

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we have many wonderful events.

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It's action-packed.

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And too many events to mention
here, except just one--

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I would say, if you
are a poetry fan,

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you should definitely buy
tickets for Love Notes.

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This is a performance
that is created

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in collaboration between the
School of Dance and the Poetry

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Center.

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It's going to be taking place
over at the Stevie Eller

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theater the week of Valentine's
Day, February 14 through 17th.

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It will feature dance,
music, and poetry

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in all sorts of combinations--

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including poet Richard Siken
reading poems from Crush,

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set to music composed
especially for this occasion.

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So it is a never to
be repeated because we

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don't have time--
meeting of the minds,

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and I highly recommend it.

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Speaking of buying, I also
want to draw your attention

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to the fact that we have
David's books available for sale

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over there, 20% off
the cover price.

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And David will be happy
to sign those for you

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after the talk tonight.

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Also, we're surveying tonight.

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And you should have
gotten a handout that

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goes along with the lecture--

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in addition to that
handout, a survey.

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We'd love to get your feedback
not just on tonight's event,

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but how you feel about the
lectures and the reading

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series.

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We've made an effort
this year to schedule

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more than we have been.

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Do you like that?

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What topics would you
like to have lectures on?

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Let us know.

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Along those lines, I
thought I'd tell you how

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tonight's lecture came about.

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So we had invited David to come
and read at the Poetry Center.

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We were really
excited about that.

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Then, we were reading
the Writer's Chronicle,

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and there was an article by
Tony Hoagland about the New York

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School.

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And in this article was one
very pithy quote from David.

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And we really liked that quote.

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And we love the New York School.

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So we asked if he
would like to speak

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about the legacy of
the New York School.

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And he said, yes.

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And we were happy.

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David, as you probably
know, is the author

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of five books of poetry,
titled Otherwise Elsewhere,

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Sugar Town, Bewitched
Playground, Wise Poison,

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and Torque.

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He teaches in the University
of New Hampshire MFA Program.

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And he's an alum of the
University of Arizona Creative

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Writing MFA Program.

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So please help me welcome
David back to Tucson.

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[APPLAUSE]

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