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Hello, everyone.

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Good evening.

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I want to welcome everyone to
the first reading of the fall

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here at the Poetry Center.

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[APPLAUSE]

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We had a very--

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it feels like short
summer, but we have been

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working really, really hard.

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And if you don't already
know of our lineup for fall,

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please step over and take a
flyer which is over at the book

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area, which I'm hoping you will
also visit to purchase books

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from sam sax, Erika Sánchez
as well as the book that is

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in collaboration with the whole
reason why we're having this

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reading with the Center
for Creative Photography,

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which is A Portrait of Poetry:
Photographs and Video by B. A.

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Van Sise over at the Center
for Creative Photography.

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So we also have that book there.

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This is our annual Morgan
Lucas Schuldt Memorial Reading,

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and, as I already mentioned,
will be hosting Erika Sánchez

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and sam sax introduced
by Raquel Gutiérrez.

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This reading again is in
collaboration with the Center

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for Creative Photography.

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And I would just want
to thank the Center

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for Creative photography
for being here today.

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[WHISTLING]

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Yes.

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And their teamwork--

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[APPLAUSE]

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--on all aspects of
this collaboration--

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if you have not
already gone there,

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I just want to urge you to
head over there and see it.

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It's over 80 portraits
of contemporary poets

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along with their poems.

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And this is going to be
up through November 23.

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So it's going to be
ending very soon,

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so please take a moment
to head over there.

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It's very close,
and check that out.

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One of the other
things I want to do

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is just give you two reminders.

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The first reminder is
that our next reading

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with Kim Addonizio, Javier
Zamora, and Joseph Legaspi--

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Woohoo.

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Yeah.

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It's a big deal.

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[LAUGHTER]

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It's going to be a trio.

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It's not going to be
at the Poetry Center.

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It's going to be
over at the Center

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for Creative Photography
which is over

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at 1030, North Olive Road.

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So you just want
to remember that.

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And you also want to remember
that normally our readings

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start at 7:00, but this
particular reading is

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going to start at 6:00 PM.

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OK.

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So don't come to
Poetry Center at 7:00

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because we will be celebrating--

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[LAUGHTER]

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--over at the Center for
Creative Photography.

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Just remember that part.

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The other thing I wanted to
mention is that, as many of you

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know, we have classes and
workshops every quarter,

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seasonally.

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And we have a few
openings still left

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and a really amazing
class with one

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of my colleagues, Wren
Awry, who is putting

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on a really amazing
class called "Food

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is Connected to Everything:
Writing the Culinary Essay."

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That's starting Tuesday,
October 15, from 6:00 to 9:00,

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every Tuesday
through November 5.

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So I just want to
mention if you're

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interested in that class,
come and talk to me,

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come and talk to Wren, who
happens to be here today

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because we do still have
a few slots in that class,

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and I'm sure it's going
to be an amazing class.

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The last thing I
want to mention is

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that we do have books
for sale over here,

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as I mentioned earlier.

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So please make sure that you
stop by after the reading

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to pick up some books.

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We will be also ending the
reading with a Q&A the way

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we normally do.

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So please start thinking
about some good questions

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that you may want to ask
at the end of the reading.

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The last thing I'd like to do
is just say a few things about

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our introducer who will be
up, which is Raquel Gutiérrez.

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Raquel will be
introducing sam and Erika,

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and then the reading
will go in the order

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where sam will read
first, and then

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Erika will close the reading.

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So I just want to share a
few things about Raquel.

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Raquel Gutiérrez writes personal
essays, memoir, art criticism,

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and poetry.

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She's an adult child of Mexican
and Salvadoran immigrants

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and was born and raised in
LA and currently lives here,

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where she just completed two
MFAs in poetry and nonfiction

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at the U of A. Amazing
news about Raquel

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is that her first
book Brown Neon

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will be published by Coffee
House Press in spring of 2021.

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That's right.

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[APPLAUSE]

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Go, Raquel.

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And I just found this out.

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Very happy to also announce that
her poetry collection Southwest

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Reconstruction will be published
in 2022 by Noemi Press.

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[APPLAUSE]

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So, hey.

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So I'd like to invite Raquel
up for the introduction.

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Gracias.

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[APPLAUSE]

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Hey, thank you.

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All right.