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Thank you for coming
to the Poetry Center

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Thanks for choosing to
do this on this night.

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And welcome.

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We're thrilled you're here, but
we're also thrilled and excited

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for the lecture that's
happening tonight that's going

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to feature Joshua Beckman.

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This year is the
first ever lecture

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that we are co-presenting.

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And what we hope will be
an ongoing partnership

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with this new lecture series
called the Bagley Wright

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Memorial Lecture Series.

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It's a lecture series that's
created by the Wave Books

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publisher Charlie Wright in
honor of his late father.

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And it features a series
of poets, leading poets,

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mid-career poets who are--

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the series supports them.

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It engages them in deeper
investigations of their works,

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topics central to their
craft and to the art

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form, engagements
that likely wouldn't

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be possible without the
support of the series itself.

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Other partner locations
for where these lectures

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have been delivered, the Library
of Congress, NYU, Harvard

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University, The Poetry
Foundation, Seattle Arts

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and Lectures, so geographically,
it's been up there.

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And so we're really excited
that it's down here now also.

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And I'm glad that
they've come to Tucson,

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and I'm especially
thankful to Joshua

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for making the choice to
come down here and visit,

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in this other pole star in the
poetry landscape of America.

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It will be useful to us if you
buy a lot of Joshua's books,

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so that we'll get a
good report and that we

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can continue this fledgling
partnership as we go forward.

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And there will be
future lecturers,

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a lecturer each season.

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And so we hope that
we'll have many of them

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choose to come to
Tucson in the future.

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And it's exciting for
all of us, I think,

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who work at the Poetry
Center to have lectures

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happening in this space again
in so much in this season that's

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coming up.

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Finally, it is my
pleasure to introduce

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a new person at
the Poetry Center,

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but not a new person in Tucson.

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And this is Hannah Ensor, who's
the newest staff member here

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at the Poetry Center.

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Hannah is our volunteer
and events coordinator.

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She's a tremendous poet.

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And she's a huge cog in
the sweet poetry community

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that we have here.

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So we're lucky to have
her at the Poetry Center.

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We're really thrilled
that she's joining us.

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Say hi to her when you
see her at the Center.

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She will be introducing
Joshua Beckman.

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Hannah.

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[CHEERS AND APPLAUSE]