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Thanks for choosing us
over basketball tonight.

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We're grateful for
that, as always.

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My name's Tyler.

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I work here as the director
at the Poetry Center.

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I'm really glad to have
a crowd here tonight

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to hear Rachel Zucker's lecture.

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This is the second
part of Rachel's visit.

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She's been here for a week plus.

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And she gave a poetry
reading last week,

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and now she's giving a lecture.

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And that residency
we're so excited about,

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she's been our spring
poet in residence.

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It's a residency that's
sponsored by the Amazon

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Literary Partnerships, which
we're grateful for and looking

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forward to those
partnerships that we'll have

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in the next season as well.

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Rachel's reading was wonderful.

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And she's been working this
week-- this entire week--

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on this lecture, which
has been a lot of fun.

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The lecture is also part of
another collaboration called

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the Bagley Wright
Lecture Series.

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And that series
commissions writers

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to do a series of
lectures and then

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deliver them in different
places around the country.

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So we're very
grateful that Tucson

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is one of the anchor
cities for those lectures.

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It's been fun to
have a hardworking

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and seriously working
writer in our midst.

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