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All right.

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It's a beautiful
night in Tucson.

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Thank you everyone
for coming out.

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[CROWD CHEERING]

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We have rain.

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We have clouds.

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It's happening.

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I want to welcome everyone
to the Poetry Center.

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I'm Diana Delgado.

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I'm the literary director
here at the Poetry Center.

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[CROWD CHEERING]

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What a great job that you got.

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[LAUGHS]

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And I'm very excited and
honored to host Angel Nafis

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and Patricia Smith tonight at
the Poetry Center in connection

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to the Art for
Justice Initiative

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here at the Poetry Center.

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Before we begin, I'm going
to get through this a little

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quickly.

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But because I'm excited
about the reading.

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But I want to remind you
about our upcoming events

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here at the Poetry
Center in October.

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Our Prose Series will host T
Clutch Fleischman and Andrea

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Lawlor on Thursday, October 10.

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And our Art for Justice
reader Tongo Eisen-Martin

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will present on
Thursday, October 17th.

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And I don't want to forget
Sandra Cisneros, who

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will be the Poetry Center's
poet in residence--

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[CROWD CHEERING]

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--with the reading at the
ballroom on October 24th.

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Yes.

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Yes.

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[APPLAUSE]

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Just a little bit
about Art for Justice.

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This night's presentation
is part of the Art

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for Justice programming.

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It's a three-year
grant-funded project

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that commissions new
work from leading writers

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to explore the
relationship between poetry

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and the crisis of
mass incarceration

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in this country and
the hopes of creating

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a new kind of
imaginative landscape

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with different possibilities.

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Angel and Patricia will be
reading new work written

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specifically for this evening.

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And we are so excited and very
grateful to the Ford Foundation

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and for their support.

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There's another person that
I'd like to thank tonight.

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We are also thankful
for the work, support,

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and amazing vision and
leadership of the lovely Kima

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Jones, who is visiting
Tucson this week.

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Give it up for Kima.

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[CROWD CHEERING]

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Kima is here from LA.

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And she is from Jack
Jones Literary Arts.

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And she has been
instrumental not only

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in the logistical pieces
of Art for Justice,

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but also just as a
consultant and serving

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as a visionary on this project.

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So I just want to thank
Kima for taking time out

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of her busy schedule to come
all the way up to Tucson

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and be part of our community.

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So gracias.

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[CROWD CHEERING]

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Our reading is going to
begin in a few moments

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with an introduction
by Logan Phillips.

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[CROWD CHEERING]

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And Logan is an award-winning
performer and MFA candidate

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in poetry at the U of A.
He does also have a book,

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and it is called
Sonoran Strange,

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which is an amazing title.

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So please also remember to
check out his book after that.

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Tonight we're also very
excited to have Leilani Clark.

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[CROWD CHEERING]

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And Leilani Clark is
here, because we're

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continuing our
spotlight on local

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and regional
non-for-profit organization

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and artists who are
working to advance issues

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related to carceral justice.

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And to also get our
community involved,

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to make sure that Tucson
is aware of things

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that they can do locally
within their community.

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And you'll have a rep here who
you can talk to and hear more

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about that.

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So that will be Leilani.

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Leilani, just a
little bit about her.

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She's the community organizer,
activist and performance artist

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of Native and
African-American descent

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who is here on behalf of
BIPOC United Tucson, which

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is Black, Indigenous,
and people of color.

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So I want to invite Leilani
up now who will tell us

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a little bit about her work.

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And that will be followed
by Logan, and then

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Angel, and Patricia.

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And the last thing
I want to share

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is that we have
beautiful books for sale.

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And we'll have a short Q and A
at the very end of the reading.

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So thank you for coming.

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Welcome.

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[CROWD CHEERING]