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Hi, everyone.

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Welcome to the Poetry Center.

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I'm Diana Delgado.

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I'm the literary director here.

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I'm going to be very brief,
but I do have just a few notes

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about next week.

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Next week, we're going to have
Nikky Finney here at the Poetry

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Center.

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So please do not
miss out on that.

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That is-- Let me lower
this a little bit.

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Nikky Finney is part of our
Art for Justice Project.

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The Art for Justice, for
those of you who don't know,

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is an initiative that we
are now in the first year

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entering into our second
year that commissions

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new work from leading
writers in conversation

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with the crisis of mass
incarceration in the United

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States.

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And our goal here
at the Poetry Center

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is to create new awareness
surrounding that crisis.

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So please come out next
week, Nikky Finney.

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Also if you are in Phoenix,
we are doing a reading

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next Wednesday in Phoenix
at the Phoenix Art Museum

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with Nikky Finney.

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So you could see
her on Wednesday.

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And then, if you're in Tucson,
you can come out on Thursday

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and see her then.

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So please come out.

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So I want to welcome
Kiki Petrosino.

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And I also want to
welcome up Ander Monson,

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the director of the MFA program
here at the UVA to introduce.

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Thank you.