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I'm Cybele, I'm the coordinator
of Poetry Center's reading

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and lecture series,
and tonight, we're

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very excited to share with
you, a reading by poet

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and memoirist Paul Guest.

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The Poetry Center
and the University

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of Arizona Disability
Resource Center,

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join forces to co-sponsor
and coordinate this event,

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and from the DRC, I want to
thank Amanda Kraus, Sue Kroger,

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Alan Strauss, and Sherry
Santee, for working with us

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to make Paul's visit possible.

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If you don't know of
it, I want to just say

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a little bit about the
Disability Resource Center.

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It leads this campus in
the creation of inclusive

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learning and
working environments

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and facilitates access
discourse and involvement

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through innovative services,
programs, and partnerships.

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The DRC is also the
administrative house

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of the disability studies
collaborative, which

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works with representatives
from the Sonoran UCEDD

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and disability and
psycho-educational studies,

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to infuse disability awareness
into teaching, programming,

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and research.

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Just in case you
got a little lost

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there, a very simple example
of the positive impact

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of the DRC on our campus,
is tonight's event.

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And I'm excited to tell you that
the Poetry Center and the DRC

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will be doing more projects
together in the future.

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Speaking of the Poetry Center.

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We're also grateful to
our Poetry Center donors,

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and the National Endowment of
the Arts for providing funding

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for tonight's reading.

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And I'd also like to thank
Poetry Center staff member,

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Renee Angle, she's not here.

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For being the first
person to suggest that

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we bring Paul to read at Tucson.

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And of course, I
thank Paul very much,

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for making the journey from
Charlottesville in Virginia,

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to spend time with us.

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So tonight, Paul will
read from his poetry.

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He'll also read from his memoir.

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The reading will be
about 40 minutes,

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and then we'll have time
for a short Q&A. Afterwards,

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Paul will sign books up here.

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As usual, we have
books for sale.

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20% off the cover price.

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Over here.

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And Poetry Center docents,
Barrie and Veronica,

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would be very happy to help
you with your purchase.