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I'm Gail Browne.

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I want to welcome you to the
final presentation in our art

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and ecology series,
Oh Earth, Wait for Me:

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conversations about
art and ecology.

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We want to express our
very deep gratitude

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to the Center for
Biological Diversity

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for co-sponsoring
this series with us.

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Also, thankful to the
Institute for the Environment

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for their support of the
David Dunn presentation.

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Of course, thanks to the
National Endowment for the Arts

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and our very, very generous
friends of the Poetry Center.

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30 years ago, Gary Snyder
wrote, "biological diversity

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and the integrity of organic
evolution of this planet

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is where I take my stand.

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Not a large pretentious stand
but a straightforward feet

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on the ground,
like my grandmother

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nursing her snapdragons and
trying at grafting apples.

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It's also inevitably the stand
of the poet, child of the muse,

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singer of saneness, and
weaver of rich fabric

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to delight the mind with
possibilities, opening

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both inward and outward."

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In our December
e-newsletter, Eric Magrane

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drew us a map in the form
of a permaculture flower.

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Of the many directions,
inward and outward,

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our conversations
on art and ecology

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have taken us so far, the
poets, musicians, scientists,

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and visual artists we've
heard from this fall

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have demonstrated, from a
variety of perspectives,

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the urgency for taking
a stand for better

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stewardship of the Earth,
certainly before another 30

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years passes us by.

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At the same time, it's
been interesting to observe

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our struggle for hopefulness.

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I see it especially in the
current exhibit of artwork,

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created in response
to this series

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by Barbara Penn's advanced
contemporary drawing students.

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Undergraduate George Belcher
says in his artist's statement

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accompanying a watercolor
portrait "Sense and Sensation,"

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"possibility is unrelenting
as is the power to change."

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But we have one more
artist to hear from.

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And I can think of
no one more fitting

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to close our series than poet
Eleni Sikelianos, Colleen

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Burns, with a very informative
shoptalk on her work, Monday,

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this past Monday.

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And this afternoon,
we had the opportunity

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to pose questions to her.

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Eleni's books are
available for sale,

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courtesy of U of A Bookstore.

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And she'll be happy to sign
them after the reading.