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Hi, everybody.

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Welcome.

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Glad you're all here.

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We're going to get
this show on the road.

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My name's Tyler Meier.

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I work here as the director
at the Poetry Center.

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We're so excited
that Khaled is here.

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Khaled are our spring
poet in residence

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here at the Poetry Center,
which is a beautiful thing.

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I'm clapping for that.

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[APPLAUSE]

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We're grateful to
the Amazon Literary

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Partnerships for
support that make

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these residencies possible.

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Khaled's working on
a new book of poems,

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which is the dream for what
these residencies are all

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about.

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So we're really excited
about his work in general,

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but also excited that this day
is about new work and about new

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work that-- some of which
we'll get to here tonight--

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and the new poems that
will come out of his visit.

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So we're excited about that
and about his presence here.

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He's reading tonight, of course.

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But come back next week
because we're also having

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a presentation from Khaled.

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It's a lecture
next week, and it's

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a lecture on the long poem.

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And we're really excited
about that as well.

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So glad you're here tonight,
but pencil in Thursday next week

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to be back here again,
or put out a cot and just

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stay for the whole week.

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We'll bring you
water and crackers.

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And come back.

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We're excited about that.

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It's my pleasure to welcome up
my friend Farid Matuk, who's

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going to introduce
Khaled, a colleague

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in the English department, has
a beautiful new book of poems

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coming out very soon
from the U of A Press.

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Please help welcome
my friend Farid Matuk.

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