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Hello, everyone.

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Welcome, welcome, welcome.

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How are you all?

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Good.

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Good.

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Happy not summer
evening, which seems

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like a new thing in Tucson.

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And we can celebrate
the fact that it

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feels like fall may
be coming, maybe

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one more hot day on Saturday.

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We hope just one more,
and then we move on fully

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into the beauty season.

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So welcome here, welcome
to the Poetry Center,

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we're glad you're here.

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It's nice to see such a huge
crowd for these two readers

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that we care about so much.

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I do want to thank,
before we start,

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the National Endowment for
the Arts, which has partially

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underwritten the reading
series this year.

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So thank you, National Endowment
for the Arts, we clap for you.

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We hope you can hear
us in Washington, DC.

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[APPLAUSE]

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But also round of
applause for all

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of the supporters of the
Poetry Center, the friends

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and the Whitman
circle members who

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help support and make
possible the programming

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that we do year to year.

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And we're so grateful
for your support,

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and thank you so much for it.

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So, cheers.

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[APPLAUSE]