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Hello, everyone.

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Welcome.

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How are you all?

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Good?

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We're ready to get
the show on the road.

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The technology is working.

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Muriel Rukeyser has joined us.

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What could go wrong?

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Only things can go right.

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Really glad that
you all are here.

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Thanks, everyone, for coming.

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My name is Tyler.

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I work as the director
here at the Poetry Center.

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Glad you all are here to hear
an amazing lecture this evening.

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And I'm grateful for
Khaled for being here.

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We've had an amazing stretch
of time, where we've had Khaled

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in Tucson for a while now as
our Spring Poet in residence

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here at the Poetry Center.

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And so he read some poems last
week from a new manuscript

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that I'm so excited about
and excited for that book

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to be in the world.

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I'm excited to have
him here tonight

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to talk a little bit more
and read an essay to us.

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Talk to us a little
bit about poetry,

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especially about the long
poem, which I'm really,

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really excited for.

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Please, help me welcome my
colleague Susan Briante,

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a faculty member here in the
MFA program in Creative Writing,

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a translator, a friend.

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She's going to help
introduce Khaled Mattawa.

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Thanks for being here.