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Hello.

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Hello, Hannah.

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Oh, hi.

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Hi, down there.

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Hi, over there.

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Hi, everyone.

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Good crowd tonight.

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Thank you for being here.

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Welcome to the Poetry Center.

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I'm Hannah.

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I coordinate the Reading and
Lecture Series here, which is,

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it happens to be what
you're attending.

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So tonight we kick off our
four-event series on spectacle

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and poetics.

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We're really glad that this
moment is finally here.

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But before I get too deep into
telling you about spectacle

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and poetics or about
Terrance Hayes, who's

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sitting right there, I want
to give a big thank you

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to two really wonderful
campus partners of ours,

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the Confluencenter
for Creative Inquiry

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and the Department
of Africana Studies.

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Really, thank you, thank you.

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They're making it possible
for these four amazing poets

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to visit us, so
that's a big deal.

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Also, we want to thank the
Whitman Circle and all friends

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of the U of A Poetry Center.