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My name's Tyler.

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I work here is the director
at the Poetry Center.

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Glad you guys are all
choosing to be here tonight.

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I wanted to tell you a
little bit about the reading

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that you're at tonight.

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This is the-- what
we're realizing

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is the fifth iteration of
the Hannelore Quander-Rattee

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Works-in-Translation reading.

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And we're so excited
about this reading.

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It has had many great
poets here already.

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And we're so excited about
Sawako's presence here tonight

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for this next iteration
of this reading series.

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Hannelore Quander-Rattee
was a poet and a translator

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here in Tucson and also an
editor, a great cultural actor

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participating in many different
ways in the literary lifestyle

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and scene of both Tucson
and Bisbee and elsewhere.

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She translated especially,
Gunter Eich from the German,

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as well as the works
of Heinrich Boll.

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And so we're excited to,
again, offer this iteration

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of this reading tonight and
celebrate works in translation

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and poets who are
working in translation

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and in the own poems as well.

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I am very excited to welcome
up my colleague Sarah

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Kortemeier, the instruction
and outreach librarian

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here at the Poetry Center,
who is an engine of life

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at the Poetry Center and
connects us in many ways

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to what happens on
campus and elsewhere

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as well as taking care of
all of the amazing books

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and other resources
across the way.

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So please help me welcome my
colleague Sarah Kortemeier.

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[APPLAUSE]