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Hello, everyone.

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Welcome, welcome, welcome.

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We're excited that
you are all here.

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My name is Tyler Meier and I
work as the executive director

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here at the Poetry Center.

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I want to welcome you to
the 52nd year of the reading

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and lecture series here at
the Poetry Center in Tucson.

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[APPLAUSE]

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This means we're very close to
qualifying for a discount pass

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on the street car, which
we're excited about.

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And good readings have been
happening here for a long time

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and we're excited about this one
that's happening here tonight

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and about all that's
happening this fall.

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We still have a
small bit of wind

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in our sails from the
Governor's Arts Award

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that the Poetry Center won
this past year, the 2014 year,

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for our community outreach.

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So we're excited about
that and we're riding that

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into the fall season.

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If you haven't yet picked up
our fall calendar of events,

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they exist here and
they look like this.

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This is somewhat different than
they've looked in the past.

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They've been
newsprint in the past

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and we've made them into this
other shape and format, which

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is nice for refrigerators,
bulletin boards, or to post

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publicly by your house.

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So those exist.

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Be excited.

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And we are excited for
you to pick them up.

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There's many of them over
there on the table over there.

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Please grab them.

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We hope that you avail
yourself to them.

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Lots of good things
happening and we

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want to make sure that
they are all on your list

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and on your calendar.

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Included in the calendar
is also our classes

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and workshop series.

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If you've never taken a
class at the Poetry Center,

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I hope you'll take
a look at this

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and just see what's
on offer this year.

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These can be single
day classes, these

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can be classes that are up
to six weeks in sequence.

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There's a range of prices.

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They're all very affordable.

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And I hope that some of
them may appeal to you.

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One that we're launching this
year in particular, for those

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who are interested,
close to my own heart,

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is a parent-child
collaborative writing summit.

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It's a two-class session.

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It just costs $5.

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And it should be a lot of fun.

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You don't have to be
a parent, necessarily.

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You can be an aunt, an uncle,
an older brother, a grandparent,

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et cetera.

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But childs are required.

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[LAUGHTER]

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So you can find one
and take this class.

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Books are for sale
this evening and I hope

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you avail yourselves of them.

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You can buy lots of
things in the world,

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but books should be one of them.

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And there are many
of them up here.

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You can't have too many.

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So I hope that you
will purchase them.

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The readers tonight--
there won't be a Q and A

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because we have
three readers, but I

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do hope you'll come up
afterwards and come meet them,

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spend a little time talking
to them, and buy some books,

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and ask them to sign them.

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I'm sure they'd be very
excited about that.

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These are wonderful
books that we're

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really pleased to present
and wonderful readers.

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So, again, three
readers tonight.

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It's an enviable lineup
that we're excited about.

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Steve Willey will
read first and he'll

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be introduced by the
poet Farid Matuk who

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is also the judge for our
2014 summer residency.

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So Steve is here visiting
as our summer resident.

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He's been living in the guest
cottage this past month.

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He's here from London, England.

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We're excited that he's here.

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Farid is excited that he's here.

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After Steve, the
poet Boyer Rickel

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will introduce
Brian Blanchfield.

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And then after Brian,
finally, the poet Jane Miller

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will introduce Karen Brennan.

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So that will be our sequence.

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We're really incredibly
grateful to all of you

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for supporting the Poetry
Center and continuing

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to support the Poetry Center.

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It's an exciting example of what
a public-private partnership

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can look like.

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It's been a
public-private partnership

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for a really long time.

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And we're grateful
for all of you

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who are able to contribute
and support the Poetry Center.

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We're grateful for you to
showing up for these events

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and for participating
and being here.

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Particular gratitude
tonight that I

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would like to express to
the National Endowment

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for the Arts, which has made a
grant that supports the reading

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series this entire year.

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Thank you, National
Endowment for the Arts.

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We owe you.

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[APPLAUSE]