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Welcome to the Poetry Center.

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Glad you guys are here.

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Thank you.

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It's a great night.

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We're really excited about it.

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And I just have a couple of
quick housekeeping things

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to take care of.

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My name is Tyler Meier.

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I work here as the director
at the Poetry Center.

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We're very happy to have you.

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This reading is part
of a series that we've

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been offering this fall
and into the spring season

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about climate change and
poetry and where those two

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things might intersect
and how the language we

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use to think about these
complicated environmental

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problems might create
new possibilities,

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new imaginative possibilities,
how we think about it, how we

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think about the
challenges, and how we

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think about the possibilities.

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There are many people on
campus, many groups on campus

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that have helped make this
reading series possible.

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And so I just want to
quickly thank them.

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Thanks to the
College of Science.

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Thanks to the Agnese
Nelms Haury Program

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in Environment and
Social Justice.

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Thanks to the Confluence Center.

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Thanks to the Institute of the
Environment, Africana Studies.

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Thanks to the National
Endowment for the Arts

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and everyone else
who supported this.

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We're glad and thankful
for all that support.

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