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Thank you so much, Susan.

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I'm just going to read my
thank yous off the computer,

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and then I'll read my
lecture off the paper.

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I would like to thank
the Poetry Center

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for the resources, support,
and encouragement, and time.

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It has been an amazing week--

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absolutely,
unexpectedly amazing.

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I'd especially like to
thank Hannah, Tyler, Julie,

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Christine, Renee, as well as
Susan, Farid, TC, Sam, Sunny

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and Rosie.

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I'd also like to thank
the Jewish History

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Museum for bringing me here.

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I didn't get a chance
to give a talk there

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but there is Jewish content
in this lecture, which

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is interesting.

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[LAUGHTER]

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I'd like to thank the
Bagley Wright Poetry Lecture

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Series for this invitation
to write and deliver

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these lectures, an
invitation I could not refuse

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and the daunting
privilege and opportunity

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to think deeply about poetry.

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I'd also like to thank
people who helped me very

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directly with this lecture.

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And this is not
an inclusive list.

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I need to work on this
a little bit, but--

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Arielle Greenberg, Christine
Larusso, Erika Meitner,

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Katy Lederer, Laurel Snyder,
D.A. Powell, David Trinidad,

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and all of my graduate
students in my fall

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2015 Legacy of Confessional
Impulse Craft class at NYU,

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especially my student
Isaac Ginsberg Miller.

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I'd like to thank NYU
for enabling me to learn

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from these amazing students.

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And also, I'd like to thank
Janice and her students,

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who I spoke to on my
very first day here.

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