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This series that we're
here for tonight,

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we're so excited that
Simon Ortiz is here.

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This is really special.

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And we're excited to
have him back in Tucson.

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And he's been here
many times before.

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And this is special for me,
in particular, my first time

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to see him in this place.

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And so we're really pleased
that Simon has made this trip.

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The next event in
this particular series

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will be on March 12 and
that's with Ofelia Zepeda.

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And she'll be
reading here at 7:00.

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And that's coming up next
from the Poetics and Politics

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series.

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There's a family
days event, if you

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have little kids, this weekend.

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And that's on Saturday.

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It's here at the Poetry Center.

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It starts at 10.

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There are age-based
writing workshops for kids.

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Please come join us.

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There's coffee for the
parents, or the grandparents,

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or the aunts and uncles,
whichever you happen to be,

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however you get kids here.

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It's a lot of fun.

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Come join us.

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And I just want to quickly
acknowledge and thank one

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of my hardest working
coworkers, Hannah Ensor.

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Where's Hannah?

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Oh, you're here.

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Stand up.

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[APPLAUSE]

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Stand up.

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So she'll do questions later.

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You've seen her before.

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But Hannah is the
program coordinator

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of the reading series.

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She is in charge of all of
the moving parts that we have.

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And so when we collaborate
and partner with other people,

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and when we're doing
our own events here

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at the Poetry Center,
if they happen,

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it's because Hannah has
helped to make them happen.

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So we're enormously grateful
for her help, always.

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So thank you.

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I also want to thank, of
course, the organizers

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of this particular mini-series
that the Center's collaborating

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with, Larry Evers
and Ofelia Zepeda

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for their visionary leadership
in thinking about what

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this series could
be, what it could do,

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how it's happened in
the past, and what

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it might do in the future.

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And we're just so thankful to
them always for that vision

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and for their willingness and
collaborative spirit to partner

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with the Poetry
Center in these ways.

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And I'll welcome Larry
Evers up, who will explain

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more about what happens next.

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Thank you.

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[APPLAUSE]