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Hey, everyone.

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I'm Diana Delgado.

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I'm the literary director
of the Poetry Center,

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and we are all very excited
to host tonight, Natalie Diaz,

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in connection to our Art
for Justice initiative.

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I'm going to be very--
yes, art for justice.

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[APPLAUSE]

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I'm just going to
try and be brief.

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I just want to remind you
of some upcoming readings

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that we have.

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We have with our Prose
Series, we have Cherríe Moraga

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who's going to be coming
Thursday, April 11th, yes,

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Naomi Shihab Nye
on April 18th, yes,

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and then we are going to
close out our reading series

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for the spring with Rigoberto
Gonzalez on April 25th who will

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be our spring resident.

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Yey.

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Come on.

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Let's all-- we're
going to end soon.

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You're going to miss us.

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This next presentation
is part of the Art

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for Justice programming, which I
mentioned a little bit earlier.

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It's a three-year
grant funded project

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that commissions new
work from leading writers

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to explore the relationship
between poetry and crisis

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of mass incarceration--
thank you--

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in the country in
the hope of creating

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a new kind of
imaginative landscape

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with different possibilities.

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We're all super excited not
only to have Natalie here

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but to also have Natalie
reading from new work

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that she created,
specifically, for this evening,

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and we're really excited
and grateful for the support

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of the Ford Foundation.