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[APPLAUSE]

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Yeah, so-- yeah, welcome.

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And for a lot of you, welcome
back to the Temple Lounge.

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For this surely rare
evening, I think,

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of poetry and performance
as we bring to the stage--

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Tucson's own Teré Fowler-Chapman
and out of your anthologies,

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and up from the recordings,
and out of his dozens of books,

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Clark Coolidge.

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It's wow, you know,
it's just really great

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to have both poets here.

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There are two of us
standing up here because,

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and I'm sure most of you
know Charles, poet, editor,

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publisher, impresario--

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The quiet one.

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The quiet-- so far.

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Because Cafe Bohemia
and Intermezzo

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are partnering tonight with POG.

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And POG is our sister
organization, our big sister,

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who has done many more
readings than we have and has

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been central to literary Tucson,
which is a credit to Tucson.

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Because in a lot
of other places,

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you'd be significantly marginal,
I think, but Central here.

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Or not.

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Yeah.

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Central and Tucson.

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We're insignificantly marginal.

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So, yeah, I think it
was late last spring,

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we decided that this
was a possibility.

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And I'm really glad that we
were able to team up on this.

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I feel-- I think we both
feel really lucky for how

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this evening has come
together and elated again

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that Clark Coolidge could
be with us from California.

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I won't soon forget
the lunch I had today

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with Clark and his wife Susan
because part of the meal

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was literary history, Gregory
Corso, and Louis Zukofsky,

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and Bernadette Mayer,
and Charles Olson

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were all on the plate.

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And I'm still hungry,
really great stories.

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So I'm really excited
to bring him up.

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So yeah, tonight, POG
tries on a new venue.

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And Intermezzo, if
you've been here before,

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tries out a new format.

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There's a piano
here, a real piano,

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which makes this prop
piano kind of bashful.

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And that also means that
we're excited to bring up

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between the two feature
performers, Teré and Clark,

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Michael Dauphinais,
who is a professor

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in the School of Music at
the U of A and a musician.

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For my part, I need to also
acknowledge a few people that

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Stephen didn't.

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Intermezzo is myself
and Katherine Monberg,

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who you met at the
door, who organizes

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many of the operational
details that brought tonight

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and all of the readings
we do here together.

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And Intermezzo is a feature
as Stephen mentioned,

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of Cafe Bohemia, which is
literary and performance

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series curated by
Stephen Wrentmore, who

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is the ATC associate director.

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So thanks to both of them.

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And to Chris Gerling, who's
responsible for the sound

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and tech and for
finding the piano,

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which was upstairs,
behind the main stage,

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in the dressing room, hiding
behind a rack of clothes.

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So thanks to him for
that and a lot more.

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Really quickly, this
is the Temple Lounge.

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And above you and around you
are the props from about 30,

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35 years of productions that
ATC does on the main stage.

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This space is managed
by Emily Lucas.

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And so thanks to her.

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That's worth a round of
applause for hosting us again

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in this great space.

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Your bartenders are
Alison and Becca.

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Meet them again at
intermission and tip them,

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and be friends with them.

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Huge, huge, huge thanks to
John Melillo for helping

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bring tonight together.

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Really.

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Crucial in the
planning and operations

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of the whole evening.

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And so really, thanks to you
for bringing home the goods.

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I also want to say thanks to our
partner tonight, our co-sponsor

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University of Arizona Poetry
Center, and in particular,

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to Tyler Meier for the support
and some other structural

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details, including the
videography tonight.

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So thanks too to Jonathan
VanBallenberghe behind the lens.

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Yeah.

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[APPLAUSE]

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Thanks to everybody.

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And thanks to all of
you for coming out.

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Clark, I know you
wanted to say--

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Clark.

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Clark.

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Charles, I know you wanted
to say a few things about how

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the evening came together.

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But he did, no.

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This and most of you here
are part of this committee.

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This is a partnering and
collaborative community.

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And this event is just
really an example of that.

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And so I have to thank some of
the people, Brian, thank, too.

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And thank Brian, particularly,
and Stephen of Cafe Bohemia,

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and Intermezzo, thank the
Tucson Pima Arts Council,

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which helps POG to exist.

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Thank the Poetry
Center for their part

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in supporting Clark
Coolidge and Tyler Meier.

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Thank Antigone
Books, which gives us

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the ability to sell books by
Clark Coolidge back there.

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Thank John Melillo and
the English department

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at the University of
the Poetry Center.

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I had said in the--

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who else, Cynthia?

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Poets and Writers.

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And Poets and Writers
Inc that actually provide

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part of the check that
goes to the people

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presenting tonight, which is
a very important part of this.

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Also, this is really great
because-- so those of you

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who have known POG
for a long time

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know that Tenney
Nathanson and I, Tenney

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is going to be a
little late tonight.

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We think of ourselves
as the Mutt and Jeff,

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and if you get that reference,
you're not young anymore,

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of POG introductions.

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And we always compete
to who can be Jeff.

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So now, I have a new Mutt.

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[LAUGHS]

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That doesn't sound very nice.

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It's actually a compliment.

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So it's a privilege
to stand with Brian.

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I think I've made all
the thank yous I want,

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except there beyond the
books, the recent books

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by Clark from Antigone Books
and from the press Fence Books,

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there is a broadside that I
printed, Chax Press, by Clark

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Coolidge in 1987,
we have some copies

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back there and a chapbook
from John Melillo's presses

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back there as
well, which we hope

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you'll take a look
at some time tonight.

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And if you want
those things signed,

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understand that that's
a possibility too.

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And so without
further ado, I want

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to introduce Jody
Thompson, writer and editor

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of Cairn Press who
will be introducing

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our first reader tonight.

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Jody.

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[APPLAUSE]