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Happy Thursday in Tucson.

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My name is Tyler.

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I work here as the Executive
Director at the Poetry Center,

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and I just want to
thank a couple of people

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and give you a couple
quick updates before we

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start tonight.

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We're indebted to the
Amazon Literary Partnerships

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for helping support the
visit of Srikanth Reddy

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here at the Poetry Center.

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He's been our Fall resident
here at the Poetry Center.

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We've been really
grateful to have him

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in town for an extended stay,
and we're grateful to Amazon

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for helping make that possible.

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We're also very grateful to
the Bagley Wright Lecture

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Series, a series of lectures
that happen nationally

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and that work with
a group of poets

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to create a series of
lectures on poetics

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while they're in the middle
stage of their career.

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We're very excited that
Srikanth is here as part of this

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and has created these lectures.

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We're going to hear one
of them here tonight.

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It's my pleasure to introduce
my friend and colleague Joshua

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Marie Wilkinson, on
faculty here at the U of A

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in the creative
writing program, who's

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going to introduce Srikanth
Reddy before this lecture

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this evening.

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So without further ado, Joshua.