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Hello, everyone.

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Welcome.

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We're so glad you're here.

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Welcome to the Poetry Center.

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Happy monsoon.

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You get a little bit of rain.

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Yeah.

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We can applaud.

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It's been hot.

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[APPLAUSE]

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I'm always looking
for cheap applause.

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My name is Tyler.

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I work here as the executive
director at the Poetry Center.

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And we're really glad you
guys chose to be here tonight

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with us.

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This reading tonight
features our summer resident

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in the residency program
here at the Poetry Center.

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It's a program that's been in
place for a long, long time.

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Dates all the way
back to the time

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when Alison Deming was here
as the director of the Poetry

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Center.

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It's been happening since 1994.

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And it's offered
writers an opportunity

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to develop their work.

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And it's been a chance
for them to come

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be in residence in
Tucson, participate

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in the life of the center, the
life of Tucson and all of us,

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and then to share with us
what they've been working on

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and what they've
been thinking about.

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We're really excited that
Hieu Minh Nguyen's here

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to share his work
with us tonight

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and I can't wait to hear it.

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I will introduce
Taneum first and then

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I'll introduce Sara
Wolfe Vaughan second.

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Taneum will introduce Hieu
and Sara will introduce

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Matt who's here as well.

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Matt Bell is here from ASU.

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We're so excited that he's
come down to be with us tonight

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as well.

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Taneum Bambrick is a
poetry MFA candidate here

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at the University of Arizona.

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She serves as poetry editor
for Narrative Magazine

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and recently as an editorial
assistant at Copper Canyon

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Press.

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She's published
work in Gap Tooth

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and in The Nashville Review.

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And Sara Wolfe Vaughan is on
the precipice of receiving

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her MFA in fiction.

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It's a scary edge.

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She's currently working on
a post-apocalyptic novel

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set in New Mexico.

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So welcome, everyone.

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We're glad you're here.