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Oh, look at you all.

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Hello!

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So nice to see you on
this beautiful evening.

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Thank you for that gorgeous
introduction, Raquel.

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Raquel and I have somehow made
this wonderful tradition now

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of just seeing each other
just all over random places

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in the country.

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So now we have pictures
on the coast of Oregon,

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and now in Tucson, so now we're
just going to keep doing that.

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Tonight's reading,
they asked me to read

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for 40 minutes, which is a
little longer than I usually

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read.

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But I'm going to do it.

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And I'm going to read 15 poems,
and I'm telling you that so

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that you're comfortable
with that number,

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and you can count down.

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You don't like what you're
hearing, you can kind of,

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OK, it's about to
end, and if you really

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like what you're
hearing you'd be like,

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OK, there's like five more!

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So, and I also, I'm going to
read primarily from two things.

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I'm going to read
about half and a half.

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The first from
Bright Dead Things.

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I think I'll read seven poems
from Bright Dead Things,

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and then I will read eight
from the new book, which

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is coming out in August.

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So I wanted you to be a part
of those new poems, as well.

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OK.

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Thank you so much for having me.

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I cried yesterday coming here.

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I thought, 50,000 poetry
books in that room, 50,000.

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That's amazing.

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And it was overwhelming,
and wonderful,

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and just makes me think
thank God for poets.

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