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So I'm pleased to
introduce our special guest

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poet who has a distinguished
and varied career.

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He is here today first
and foremost as a poet,

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but he is a lawyer and last but
not least, the mayor of Tucson.

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His collection of poetry, The
Last Clubhouse Eulogy from Chax

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Press features an
array of poems that

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are inspired not
only by concerns

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for a local and global community
but the everyday pleasure

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and heartache of what it
means to be a human being.

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In his role as mayor, he has
chosen to give special emphasis

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to the issue of literacy.

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And he has reinstated a
poet laureate position

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for the city of Tucson.

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I'm so pleased.

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And I think we're very
lucky to have a mayor who

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values arts and literacy.

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So please help me welcome poet
and mayor, Jonathan Rothschild.

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[APPLAUSE]

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