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Hello, everybody.

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Welcome, how are you all?

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[APPLAUSE]

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Good.

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Yeah.

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That's the right noises to make
before a great poetry reading.

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Good work, more vowel sounds.

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Happy everyone's here.

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My name is Tyler Meier,
I work as the director

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here at the Poetry Center.

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Happy to have a
good crowd in Tucson

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on a Thursday night
for a poetry reading,

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with two wonderful poets
that I admire so much,

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who are traveling
a short distance

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to come read for us tonight.

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Faculty members and
former faculty members

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here at the U of A, Farid
Matuk and Jane Miller.

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And both heroes,
both amazing poets.

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So I'm grateful to
them for being here.

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I just have a couple of quick
announcements I want to make.

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If you were here early and
have come in to the red seats,

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you'll have noticed that
there's a broadside waiting

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for you on those seats.

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And that's a broadside from
New Michigan Press, AKA Ander

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Monson and others.

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And Ander's right back there.

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Ander, wave to us.

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He made these broadsides.

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[APPLAUSE]

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So if you missed one
because you came late

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or because you sat in the
back, this is a lesson to you.

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And there are some
extras up here.

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I see a few around.

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So if you find one
later you can grab it.

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There's also a broadside
for Farid Matuk that we have

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that we'll be passing
out afterwards.

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I'm going to have those.

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So if you want to grab one
of those after the reading,

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and you should, come see me and
we'll have those to pass out.

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And thanks to New Michigan Press
for the beautiful press work.

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Jane Miller is going
to read first tonight,

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and then Farid Matuk
will read second.

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To introduce Farid, Kou Sugita
will be up here to introduce,

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a third year MFA student.

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We're really excited
to have Kou with us.

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So thank you so much.