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Come on in, welcome
everybody, glad you're here.

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Welcome to the Poetry
Center on a Thursday

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night in the spring in Tucson.

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This is an incredible stretch
of Thursday nights at the Poetry

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Center right now.

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And if you missed Rodrigo
Toscano last Thursday,

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don't worry, it's on Voca.

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Glad you're here
for this tonight.

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I want to tell you about what's
coming up next at the Poetry

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Center, so you have
a sense of what

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you're going to see over
the next three Thursdays.

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Basically I'm saying reserve
your Thursdays, at least

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the next three of them.

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Coming up next, we have a poetry
reading back here, Thursday,

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this room, 7:00 PM on the 6th.

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And that's Ocean Vuong
and Camille Rankine.

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Really excited that
they're coming,

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that's back here on the 6th
here at the Poetry Center.

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After that, the next
in the prose series

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comes up this spring, and
that's Elena Passarello

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and David Shields, really
excited about their presence

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and coming to Tucson.

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That's on the 13th, 7 o'clock
here at the Poetry Center.

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And then finally on the
20th we have Mary Ruefle

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coming and reading here, and
she's reading at 7 o'clock

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also, as well, in this room.

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Thursdays, what could be better?

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What could be better?

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Come join us.

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I also just want to
quickly tell you,

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this is appeal season
at the Poetry Center,

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and so if you're
inclined, and you

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like what you hear and listen
here at the Poetry Center,

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and what we're doing here,
the work that's happening,

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grab one of these cards.

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It can tell you about how to
support the Poetry Center over

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at the table on my right.

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There's no time like this
time to show, publicly,

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your support of the arts.

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We're grateful for it and
it empowers all the things

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that we do here at
the Poetry Center,

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including these great
collaborations with the prose

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series.

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I'm really glad
you're all are here.

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I'm going to wake them
up in Ander Monson

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to tell us more about the
introducers and the readers

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tonight.

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Please help me welcome my friend
Ander Monson, bright spirit.

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