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The Reading Series is the
Poetry Center's longest

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running program.

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As some of you know, the Poetry
Center was founded in 1960

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and the Reading
Series began 1963.

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In the spring, Holly Schaffer
of UA Press and editor Allison

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asked the Poetry
Center if we would

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help them celebrate the
publication of Sing:

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Poetry From the
Indigenous Americas.

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And of course, our
answer was, yes.

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Because as soon as
we saw the book,

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we knew that it was a historic
publication in poetry.

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We're very proud of UA press,
of all the contributors

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to the anthology,
and especially we

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salute the work of editor
Allison Hedge Coke, who I'm now

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very happy to introduce.

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Allison's books include: Dog
Road Woman, Off-Season City

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Pipe, Rock, Ghost,
Willow, Deer, Blood Run,

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and eight edited volumes.

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Her performances include:
international poetry festivals

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in Colombia, Argentina,
Venezuela, Jordan, and Canada.

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She came up working
horses and tobacco

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and in commercial fishing,
construction, and factories.

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She mentors incarcerated youth
and working class writers

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and is Associate
Professor of Poetry

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and Writing at the University
of Nebraska, Kearney.

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Please welcome the editor
of Sing, Allison Hedge Coke.

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[APPLAUSE]

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