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Hi, everyone.

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Welcome to the Poetry Center.

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We're very excited
for tonight's reading

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with Lehua Taitano
and Bojan Louis,

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who will be reading for about
20 minutes, each of them.

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We're going to have
Lehua read first,

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and then Bojan will read after.

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Before we begin, I have a few
announcements, one of which

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is I'm Diana Delgado.

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

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Yay!

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One year down.

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[APPLAUSE]

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I arrived June and then,
you know, desert took over.

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So a few things is,
for those of you,

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if you're looking for
something to do in the Arizona

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heat, Wednesday, July 31, we
have our last summer social,

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which is a Whitman
summer social,

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and it's going to be poetry
selections from the Arizona

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Friends of Chamber
Music, and that's

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going to be over at the
Copper Room at Hotel Congress,

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Wednesday, July 31 at 5:30.

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So come by.

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And then the other thing
I wanted to mention

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is that we offer classes and
workshops here at the Poetry

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Center.

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I'm not sure if
everyone knows that,

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but every season we have at
least four to five classes

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that we offer.

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And we also offer
scholarships, so if you

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feel that you're in need of a
scholarship, all you need to do

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is apply.

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Our scholarship deadline is
going to be Tuesday, July 30.

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So definitely you
can go online, look

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at the classes
you'd like to take,

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apply for the scholarship, and
then we take it from there.

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So to begin, I'm going
to introduce Lehua,

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a very short,
brief introduction,

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and then Susan Briante will
be introducing Bojan Louis.

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And don't forget, we have books
for sale, always, to my right.

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"Trust with your skin.

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Lehua Taitano,
being a spring, one

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can propose that in this world
there are two main actions--

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that of coming together, and
the other of coming apart.

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In her two poetry collections,
"A Bell Made of Stones,"

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"TinFish 2013," and
"Inside Me an Island,"

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WordTech Editions, 2018,
Taitano's poetry both

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assembles and pushes, fracturing
the land and her identities

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until each are free.

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And in those same
actions, rooted

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in healing and acknowledgment
of her Chamoru heritage,

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she juxtaposes the
world we stand on,

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and just like in
her poem "Estuary,"

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the feathered word that
hums about us, between us,

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is unmoored."

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Lehua.

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[APPLAUSE]

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You're welcome.

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I'm back.

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[INAUDIBLE]

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Thank you.

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