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Good evening, everyone.

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Can you hear me?

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My name is Anne
Breckenridge Barrett.

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I'm the director of the Center
for Creative Photography.

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And I am very pleased to
welcome you here this evening.

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And I'm incredibly excited
and honored to welcome Kim

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Addonizio, Joseph
Legaspi, and Javier Zamora

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to the Center for our second
in a series of poetry readings

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that accompany the exhibition
Portraits of Poetry:

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photographs by BA Van Sise.

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Now, that exhibitions open
through November 23rd.

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And it also has an accompanying
exhibition in the Heritage

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gallery, which is a complement
to Edward Weston's Leaves

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of Grass, and that's open
through November 30th.

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I want to take a
minute to acknowledge

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the collaboration
between the Center

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for Creative Photography
and the Poetry Center

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and how wonderfully our
staffs have worked together.

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The programming
staffs are amazing.

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And if you've never been
to the Center welcome.

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We absolutely have a
membership program,

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and you're welcome to
ask any of us about it.

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But without further ado,
it's my absolute pleasure

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to introduce my colleague
Tyler Meier, the director

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of the Poetry Center.

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How many of you are
not members of the CCP?

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Oh, good, you all
have work to do,

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and you can do it
on the way out.

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Thanks, everybody, for coming.

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We're really happy to
see such a crowd here.

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Thanks for being in this space
and welcoming these poets

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to Tucson or back to Tucson.

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We're really pleased and
excited that they're here,

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and of course, they're all
connected to the exhibit

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that Anne mentioned, which if
you haven't had a chance to see

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it, it's such a
singular, and delightful,

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and remarkable exhibit.

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And I hope you'll
make time to do it.

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If you have seen it, I hope
y'all catch it again before it

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has to come down and
the next shows go up,

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so please take
advantage of that.

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I'm going to segue
just to mention this.

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There's another way you
can experience that exhibit

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in this form, which is brand
new, hot off the press,

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it smells great,
and it's the book,

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it's called Children of Grass.

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And it collects all
of the images that

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are in the exhibit as
well as a few others

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by the photographer BA Van Sise.

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This book launches to the
world on September 24th,

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but because of Arizona's
funky daylight savings,

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it's available here
now and to you today.

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So if you want to
experience the future today,

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this is available for purchase
before the rest of the world

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can get it.

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It's a beautiful book.

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It's really well-made,
and has, again,

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all of the poems and
all of the images

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that are part of the exhibit.

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So I hope you'll do that.

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It's been lovely for me
to have this as a thing

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to look at as a way to also
remember what's on the walls

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here.

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I'll just mention quickly that
there's another quick poetry

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reading coming up soon at
the Center on September 26th

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and that's with two poets,
the poet Patricia Smith

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and the poet Angel Nafis.

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And that's at 7 o'clock
back at the Poetry Center.

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We have three
poets here tonight,

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and we've decided
that they're going

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to read in alphabetical
order of their first names.

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And so, Javier is going
to go first, then Joseph,

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and then Kim.

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And to help introduce
them, we are

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going to introduce
my new colleague here

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at the University of
Arizona, Bojan Louis.

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But before I do
that, I just want

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to echo any sentiments
about the chance

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to collaborate between cultural
institutions at the U of A.

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These are two of
the most exciting.

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I'm a little bit
opinionated, but these

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are two of the most exciting
cultural institutions that we

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have, period.

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They happen to be
on this campus.

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It's really exciting
to work together

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to collaborate in a visionary
way about what we might

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be able to do together, and
it's been really, really fun

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to do this around poetry, and
to have this celebrate poets,

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and celebrate photography.

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And so, we're so
excited about that.

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Oh, and I see one note here.

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I just want to acknowledge, too,
my boss is here and that's AP.

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And he's the Dean of the
College of Humanities,

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and he's wonderful.

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So we're grateful
for his support.

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And I wanted to
introduce Bojan, who

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is the author of the poetry
collection Currents, which won

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the 2018 American Book Award.

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He's just joined the
creative writing faculty here

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at the U of A and also the
Department of American Indian

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Studies.

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He's teaching amazing courses.

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We're so excited to
have him here in Tucson.

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It's really exciting.

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Please let me welcome Bojan.

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Thank you.

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