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Hi, everyone.

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Welcome to the Poetry Center.

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We have another amazing
reading here tonight.

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I'm Diana Delgado.

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I'm the literary director,
here, at the Poetry Center.

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And I just want to
welcome everyone tonight

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for a very big
event that we're all

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excited for where we're going
to hear Aimee Bender read.

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[CLAPPING]

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So very excited about that.

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Yeah--

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[APPLAUSE]

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--let's get clapping, and give
her a warm invite to Tucson.

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[APPLAUSE]

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I'm just going to, briefly,
go over three, quick things

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that I want to make sure
everyone knows about.

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We run classes and
workshops every season.

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And we have four to
five-- we have, I think,

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maybe six classes that we're
running in our "Classes

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and Workshop" series.

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So if you are
interested in getting

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a need-based scholarship,
that has already opened.

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And we have through
November 21 to apply

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for that need-based scholarship.

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So just go to the
Poetry Center website,

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look for classes and workshops,
and you can figure it out.

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But, remember, November
21 is the deadline.

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And then I want
to, briefly, say--

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we have two amazing
poetry events coming up.

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And the next one is with
Arthur Sze, who is up

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for the National Book Award.

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So he's going to come
and visit with us,

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read from his book,
Sight Lines, and some

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of his other several books.

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And then he's going to head
straight over to New York City,

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where, (HESITANTLY)
I guess, he's

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going to find out if he won
the National Book Award.

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[LAUGHTER]

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But, I guess, one of the
things that I'm saying-- just

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encouraging you to come
out, congratulate him,

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and that, at the
Poetry Center, we

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have such amazing writers
that he's a finalist.

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So please come out.

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And that is going to be
on November 14, Thursday.

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And then, to finish
up our fall season,

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the next person we have, on
December 5, is Dean Young.

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If you're not familiar
with Dean Young's work,

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please get familiar with
it, because it is amazing.

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It's surreal.

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It's crazy.

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It's weird, and
it's just something

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that you'll never, probably,
forget once you hear

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Dean Young read from his work.

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So that's going to be
next Thursday, December 5.

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And that's all I have.

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I, now, want to introduce
you, very briefly,

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to Kate Bernheimer,
who's going to say, also,

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a few quick things before
Aimee comes up and reads.

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So, Kate.

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[WHISTLING]