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My name is Tyler Meier.

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I work here is the director
at the Poetry Center.

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So happy to see a big crowd
on a Thursday night in Tucson.

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This is what Thursday
nights are for.

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[APPLAUSE] Thanks for coming.

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This is the Morgan
Lucas Schuldt Memorial

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Reading, which is the
reading we do annually,

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every year at the
Poetry Center, in memory

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of the poet and publisher
Morgan Lucas Schuldt.

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Many of you knew Morgan.

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If you didn't know Morgan,
there's a way to know him,

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and that's through his
work, which we have

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all of at the Poetry Center.

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And so I hope you will come
over and find his books,

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find his poems,
and read about him,

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learn about him through his
language and through his words.

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He's the author of two
books of poetry, the book

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Verge, and the book Arrows,
both from Parlor Press.

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And three poetry
chapbooks, Otherhow,

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as vanished, unespecially,
and two pamphlets,

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Becoming Regardless,
and Little Just Ones.

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And the one other chapbook
I didn't read was Lunguage,

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L= u= N=G= U= A= G= E=.

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Morgan, a tremendous poet.

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Loved language, loved
how language worked.

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Loved trying to figure
out how language worked.

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I think in his poems
you see a sensibility

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that the poem is both sort of a
crucible and a proving ground.

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A place to make a kind
of belief and a place

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to test that belief.

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So we're excited to have
tonight's reading in Morgan's

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memory, and honored to be able
to do so here at the Poetry

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Center.

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Lastly, I want to introduce
my friend Diana Delgado.

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She's the new literary director
here at the Poetry Center.

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She's amazing.

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She's been a great asset
and colleague already.

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We stole her from New York City.

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We're so lucky to have
her here in Tucson.

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She's going to
introduce the poets.

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Please help me
welcome my colleague

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and my friend, Diana Delgado.

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[APPLAUSE]