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Thank you, Cybele.

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I'm so excited for
tonight's reading

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and for the chance to
introduce tonight's three rock

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stars, Samuel Ace,
Polly Rosenwaike,

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there you are, and
Dexter L. Booth.

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For those of you who've been
to the Poetry Center, who've

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been to a reading before
here at the Poetry Center,

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I think you'll agree that
it's a great opportunity

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to hear poetry and
to hear prose read

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by amazing local, national,
and international talent.

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And these readings,
these readers

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are presented as
poets, as writers,

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and we listen to their
poems, their writing.

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But in addition to connecting
to these poets and writers

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through their work,
through their presentations

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and performances
here tonight, I hope

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that you'll also connect to
them as people, because they

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are indeed human,
even though I heard

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that Dexter likes to
dress up like a robot

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for costume parties.

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So I did a little bit of
Facebook investigation.

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[LAUGHTER]

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And Samuel Ace is
a poet and writer

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who is right here in Tucson.

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He's the former principal at
the Arizona School of the Blind,

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and he's the author of
three collections of poetry,

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Normal Sex from Firebrand
Books, Home in Three Days,

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Don't Wash: A Hybrid Project of
Poetry, Video and Photography,

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also from Hard Press,
and most recently

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Stealth, which is co-authored
with Maureen Seaton from Chax

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Press.

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He's the recipient of a New York
Foundation for the Arts Grant,

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a two-time finalist for a
Lambda Literary Award in Poetry,

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winner of the Astraea Lesbian
Writers Fund Prize in Poetry.

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It's a long list.

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The Katherine Anne Porter Prize
for Fiction and the Firecracker

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Alternative Book in Poetry,
and he was the 2012 finalist

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for the National Poetry Series.

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His work has been
widely anthologized

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and has appeared or is
forthcoming from Ploughshares,

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EOAGH.

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Thanks, Sam, for
helping me with that.

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Spiral Orb, Kenyon Review.

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Hollaback, Tyler!

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Mandala, Rhino, 3:00 AM,
Panhandler, Versal, The Volta,

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and others.

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Sam's books are
available for sale

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after tonight's
reading right there,

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and he will be sitting
right there at the table

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to sign your books and
engage in some grade

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A chit chat and banter.

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Yeah, so I'd encourage you
all to chat with our readers

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tonight and to get to
know them and to realize

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what gems they are to Tucson,
to Arizona, and to the larger

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national and international
writing community.

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So the way the reading
will work tonight

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is that we'll have Samuel
read first, followed by Polly,

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and then followed by Dexter.

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So please join me in welcoming
Polly Rosenwaike, Dexter L.

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Booth, and tonight's
first reader, Samuel Ace.

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[APPLAUSE]

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