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Glad you're all here.

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Thanks for coming.

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Happy Tucson winter, which we
are upon, and it is upon us.

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So I want to welcome you all.

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My name is Tyler.

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I work here as the director
at the Poetry Center,

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and I want to tell you
about a couple of things.

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So we've had a
really amazing couple

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of days already with the
Bagley Wright lecturers

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who have been in town
for 46-plus hours now,

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and it's been special, and
Tucson is better because of it.

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I want to welcome up
Matthew Zapruder, who's

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going to talk a little bit
more about the poets who

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are speaking this evening
and lecturing to us.

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Matthew is the author
of the book Come

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On All You Ghosts and
the poetry book Sun Bear

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as well as the
amazing collection

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Why Poetry, a book
that asks big questions

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and thinks big about that
question with big answers.

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That's a really beautiful
book that I encourage you all

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to look at, please.

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He organizes all of this,
so grateful to him for that.

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And he has a team along
with Ellen Welcker that

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makes it happen.

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So please let me welcome
Matthew Zapruder.