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Hello everyone, and welcome.

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Welcome to tonight's
event where we

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will hear from two distinguished
faculty in the University

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of Arizona's MFA program,
Aurelie Sheehan and Farid

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Matuk.

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I'm Tyler Meier, and I work
as the executive director

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at the University of
Arizona Poetry Center.

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On behalf of the Center,
I welcome everyone

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who's here this evening.

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Thanks for coming.

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I have a couple of quick
announcements before we begin.

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There are books
available for purchase

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after tonight's reading
up at the front.

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You will note that the
holidays are coming very soon,

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and who among us does not
like to give a signed book

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to a person that we love?

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Such an act is a sign of
order in the world, much

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like having a small
hummingbird pause in your hand,

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or recognizing that a
field of timothy grass

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could be a thousand small,
vintage, tiny microphones

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recording the sky.

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May our world have such
order as this in it.

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Sam Ace will introduce
Farid, and Cybele Knowles

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will introduce Aurelie.

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Cybele Knowles is the
program coordinator

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at the Poetry Center.

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She oversees the Reading
and Lecture Series,

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the Classes and Workshops
program, and the Closer Look

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Book Club.

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She sometimes oversees me.

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She holds an MFA in fiction
from the University of Arizona,

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and an MA in English
from UC Berkeley.

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Her poetry and
prose have appeared

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in the Destroyer, Spiral
Orb, Diagram, Pindeldyboz,

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the Asian Pacific American
Journal, Faucheuse,

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and The Prose Poem.

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