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Thank you guys, all,
for coming tonight.

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I will be taking the place
of Samuel Ace, who usually

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does the hosting for these, and
I'm really excited to be here.

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First, I want to
start off by saying

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that POG is a very safe space.

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That's something that we promote
and we take very serious here.

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Raise your hand if you're
a board member of POG.

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First, give it up for
our board members.

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They put a lot of work
into making this happen.

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In the event that you do feel
like your experience is not

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safe, I would recommend
to definitely go

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to one of these people.

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Share your experience
because it is something

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that we want to know to
take action, if needed.

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Some upcoming events that
we do have is on March 14th,

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we have Sommer Browning
and Steve Salmoni.

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On April 17th through the 19th
is the Tucson Poetry Festival.

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POG will be partnering to bring
Claudia Rankine to Tucson.

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But for now, now we have Joshua
Marie Wilkinson, as well as

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Ariana Reines this evening.

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They also have books
for sale right outside,

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so I would definitely
recommend checking them out.

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I've been skimming through
them myself and may

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take a few of them home.

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We're going to go ahead
and bring up John Melillo,

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and he will be introducing
Joshua Marie Wilkinson.