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My name is Cybele.

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I'm very pleased to welcome
you to the Poetry Center,

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and to tonight's
event, Our annual Next

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Word in Poetry reading,
featuring Joyelle McSweeney

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and Zachary Schomburg.

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Next Word was founded in 2003,
by former literary director,

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Frances Sjoberg.

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And in curating the
series, we commit

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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

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poets-- the next big thing.

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And some Next Word
poets are innovators

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who lead us to new next
spaces in poetry and poems.

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Most Next Word poets
express the word "next"

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in more than one way, and
that is true for both Joyelle

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and Zachary.

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In addition to being
exciting writers,

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they're also publishers.

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Joyelle is co-founder
and editor,

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along with Johannes
Göransson, of Action Books,

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established in 2005.

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Zachary is co-founder and editor
of Octopus Books and Magazine,

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established in 2003.

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Zachary also is co-organizer
of Portland's Bad Blood reading

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series.

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Joyelle is a contributor
to Montevideo.

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Did I pronounce that right?

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Well, we say Montevideo.

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Montevideo.

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Montevideo.

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Check out this blog if you're
not already following it.

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So what I'm trying to say is
that Joyelle and Zachary not

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only embody what is "next"
through their own wonderful

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writing, but they also
discover deliver and promote

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what is "next"
through their works

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as leaders in the community
of contemporary literature.

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And so we owe them
a double thank you.

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OK, so I'll tell you how
tonight's event will go.

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First Zachary will read
for about 20 minutes,

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and then Joyelle will
read for about 20 minutes.

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Introducing Zachary
will be Sylvia Chan,

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who is a poetry MFA student
and a new Poetry Center docent.

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Introducing Joyelle will
be poetry MFA student Blake

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Whalen-Encalarde.

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Is that right?

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It's way better than the judge
the other day En- Colorado.

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OK, it's better than
court, all right.

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Thank you to our students
for doing the introductions.

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All around, tonight feels very
much like a family affair.

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And we're just very happy to
have brought you all together

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in our living room.

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It's high time we got
started, so please

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help me welcome the first
introducer, Sylvia Chan.

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[APPLAUSE]