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Hi, everyone.

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So I have the great pleasure
of having a dual role here,

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where I serve on the board
of Thinking Its Presence,

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but I'm also on the poetry
faculty in the MFA program

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here at the
University of Arizona.

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So I want to use
my time to talk--

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to really present
to you, or give you

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a taste of some of the
folks who live here

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in Tucson permanently.

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I want to say quickly that
folks on the program of this

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conference, Raquel Gutiérrez,
Gabe Dozal, Kou Sugita,

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[INAUDIBLE],, Miranda
Trimmier, Danielle Geller,

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Sophia Terazawa.

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Those are all currently
enrolled graduate students

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in our MFA program.

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You may have attended some of
their panels, or will tomorrow.

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I'm really excited
about them, I'm

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really lucky to work with them.

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And I just want you to
know that they are still

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in that stage of being
graduate students,

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and there's a world that they're
going to give us going forward.

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So I just want to
say their names

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and say their affiliation
so you know who they are.

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But I want to use my
time to just give you

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a sampling of some of the poets
who live here permanently.

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For every person
I'm going to read,

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you can imagine there are
probably three or four

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more who I didn't have time to
fit in to this presentation.

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So I'm sorry to the folks
who I didn't fit in.

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