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OK.

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Hi, everyone.

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How's everyone doing?

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Good.

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Good?

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Yay.

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So I'm Diana Delgado,
the literary director

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here at the Poetry Center.

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It's too loud.

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It's too loud?

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Wow.

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OK.

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I'm not even using
my full voice either.

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OK.

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How is this?

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OK.

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Now I'm like afraid
to use my full range.

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You should move it
away from the mic.

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Yeah, OK, how's this?

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Yeah?

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OK.

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OK, awesome.

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So you all know who I
am, Diana Delgado, I'm

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the literary director
here at the Poetry Center.

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Woo!

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Yay.

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[APPLAUSE]

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So this is kind of a big deal,
because this is, I guess,

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I started at the Poetry
Center in June of 2018.

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And this is our last
reading of the season.

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So it's like a really big deal.

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Aw.

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I know.

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I'm a little bit sad.

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But we're really,
really excited.

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The summer calendar is going
to be coming out very soon.

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We have classes and workshops.

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And we already have ready the
2019-2020 reading and lecture

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series ready to go so definitely
keep an eye out for that.

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[CHEERING]

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Really quickly, I want
to thank Patri Hadad,

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who has been
working tirelessly--

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and I really mean tirelessly--

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with me.

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Patri, I just want to
tell you thank you,

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say thank you for all
of your hard work.

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[APPLAUSE]

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And I also want
to thank Tyler who

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has been amazing and
instrumental in sort of showing

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me the ropes here and really
just being so welcoming

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and just helpful in, you know,
kind of ushering me and getting

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me to know the community better.

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So just thank you for that.

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[APPLAUSE]

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And thanks everyone
else in Tucson

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who has either met with me for
coffee or offered me compost

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or there's been so
many different things

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that have happened.

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And I just want to thank
everybody for that.

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It's been very helpful in
my transition from New York.

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OK, enough about
the Poetry Center.

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We're here to celebrate
Rigoberto González.

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I have known Rigo for more
years than I'd like to share,

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but one of the things that
I just want to say and just

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to kind of reiterate is that
it is an honor to have you

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here at the Poetry Center.

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It's been far too long.

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And we are just honored
and thankful that you

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do the work that you do.

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And I'm excited for you to
read from your new book and all

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of your other books
that you have.

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So gracias.

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The last thing
that I want to say

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is just, again, to please
make sure you go to the Poetry

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Center website just to check
out our classes and workshops.

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We have a few spaces left
in about four of our classes

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for the summer.

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They're going to
be closing soon.

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But I just want to
make sure that you

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don't miss out on that, OK.

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We will be having
Estella Gonzalez come up

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she is a writer and
an instructor at PCC

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here in Tucson.

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And she will be
introducing Rigoberto.

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So I'd like to welcome Estella.

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[APPLAUSE]

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