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My name is Cybele Knowles. I'm
the coordinator of The Poetry

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Center's reading
and lecture series.

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And tonight we're very excited
to present our annual Next

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Word in Poetry reading
featuring poets Katherine Larson

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and Jeffrey Yang.

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In curating this
event, we permit

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ourselves to be guided by any
and all definitions of the word

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next.

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Some Next Word poets
are emerging poets,

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the next big thing.

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Some Next Word poets
are the innovative poets

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who lead us to new spaces
in poetry and poems.

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Most Next Word poets
embody the word

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next in a number
of different ways.

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And that is true for tonight's
readers, Katherine and Jeffrey.

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Jeffrey has come all
the way from New York.

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And Katherine is
a hometown girl.

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But both are very
exciting poets.

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Both have a very strong
interest in what you

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can call either
the natural world

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or the many
manifestations of life.

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And by the way, it's really
totally a coincidence

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that both Katherine and Jeffrey
have a book with cover art

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by 19th century
polymath Ernst Haeckel.

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That wasn't part of our plan.

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Or at least, that
wasn't part of any plan

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that we were aware
we were a part of.

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How it will work is Katherine
will read for 20 minutes,

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and then Jeffrey will
read for 20 minutes.

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And they'll be introduced by
students in the UA Creative

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Writing MFA program who
are poets themselves.

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So I'll introduce
both introducers now

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so I can just leave the podium.