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I'm so excited about what's
happening here tonight

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and the opportunity
that we have here

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to have these poets in Tucson.

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It's such a great gift.

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And we're grateful to the
Bagley Wright Lecture Series

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for bringing this
group of poets here.

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And what a great gift to
Tucson to be able to host them.

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It's my pleasure to welcome
up Matthew Zapruder, who's

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going to talk a little bit
more about the poets who

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will be speaking tonight.

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Matthew's most recent
books of poems,

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Come On All You
Ghosts and Sun Bear,

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both are available
as well as this book

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Why Poetry, which
is a series of poems

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that he wrote about the YMCA.

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I'm just kidding.

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That's not what it is.

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[LAUGHTER]

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It's an amazing book of essays,
thinking about a big question:

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Why poetry?

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It's a really beautiful book.

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Some of you in this
room have read it.

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And if you haven't,
I hope you'll

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pick one up and read
the book as well,

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and enjoy his big thinking
about a big topic.

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So please, help me
welcome Matthew Zapruder.