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Glad to have everybody here.

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Thank you for coming out to hear
poetry on a beautiful Thursday

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night in Tucson.

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A perfect Thursday
night in Tucson.

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My name is Tyler.

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I work as the director
here at the Poetry Center.

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We're really, really happy
to have Maggie Smith here.

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She's our fall poet
in residence for 2018.

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So a round of applause
to have her here.

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[APPLAUSE]

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What that means is, unlike other
poets who might come and go,

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Maggie will stick
around for a little bit.

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And we're so grateful for that.

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So she'll have some
time here in Tucson

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to work, some time to make
use of the Poetry Center's

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library, some time to enjoy
Tucson in this weather.

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So we're really, really
happy about that.

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I was with Maggie
earlier today, who

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has a little bit of
the onset of a cold,

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and we were purchasing
some cold medicine.

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But I got to see how she'd
already decorated the Poetry

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Center's cottage with her new
manuscript, which is already

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spread out and is in process.

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And it's getting
revised and shaped,

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additions and subtractions.

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And so I'm really
hopeful that this

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is time that leads to exciting
new shape on a new book, which

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we should all be so lucky to
have that book in the world.

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And these residences, I just
want to really quickly thank

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Amazon.com which
helps support these

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through their literary
partnership series.

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And so we're grateful to them
for their support of the Poetry

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Center through that process.

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It's my pleasure to introduce
the person who will tell you

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more about Maggie, and that's
my friend, Laura Espósto.

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She's an MFA candidate here
at the University of Arizona.

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She's an amazing poet
in her own right.

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She's also a fantastic
human that I've

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come to enjoy so much
and getting to know her

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in many different
ways, including,

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she has-- she's dealt with
my children and their demands

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to hear heavy metal music.

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And she rises to that
challenge in addition

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to her amazing work as a poet.

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So please help me
welcome Laura Espósto.

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[APPLAUSE]