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Welcome to the panel
discussion for our Emergence--

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The Next Word In Poetry events.

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And I'm sorry for standing
in front of people.

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I'm going to squat.

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And I just wanted
to let people know

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before we begin the
panel that there's

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some information in the back
of the room about our classes

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and workshops.

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In two weeks,
Charles Alexander is

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beginning of class called
Circling and Center--

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Language, Poetry
at its Peripheries.

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And Eric Magrane,
who's a U of A alum,

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is teaching a class
called Eco Poetry.

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So if you're
interested in that, you

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can grab a flyer in the back.

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And our panelists
today are, in order,

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Andrew Bode-Lang, Sommer
Browning, Mia MacDonald,

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Loren Goodman, Van Jordan,
and Suji Kwock Kim.

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The three latter poets are
the poets who read last night

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and are visiting
from out of town.

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Others are students in the
Creative Writing Program,

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both undergraduate and
graduate here at the U of A.

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Today is the anniversary of the
White House Symposium on Poetry

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that was boycotted by Sam
Hamill and started the Poets

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Against the War events.

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And so Sam has asked
people who are having

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poetry events around the country
to read a poem by either Emily

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Dickinson, Langston
Hughes, or Walt Whitman,

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the poets whom the
symposium were supposed

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to be discussing to honor
the events for Poetry

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Against the War and to honor the
poets who were originally to be

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discussed at the White House.

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So in that spirit, I'm going
to read one poem by Emily

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Dickinson, and then
turn the panel over

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to the panelists, who'll each
give a five-minute statement

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on new trends in contemporary
poetry. Then we'll open it up to

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conversation.

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This is Emily
Dickinson's "poem 16."

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It's part 1.

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"To fight aloud is very
brave, but gallanter, I know,

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who charge within the
bosom, the Cavalry of Wo.

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Who win, and nations do not see.

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Who fall, and none
observe, whose dying eyes,

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no country regards
with patriot love.

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We trust in plumed procession,
for such the Angels go, rank

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after rank, with even feet
and uniforms of snow."

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OK and Andrew will
start the panel

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on New Trends in
Contemporary Poetry.