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Welcome, everyone.

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My name is Gail Browne
and I'm executive director

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of the University of
Arizona Poetry Center

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and it's nice to
see you all tonight.

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Are you hearing me with
this microphone right now?

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OK good.

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It's new so we're still
getting used to it.

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So this is the
third presentation

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of our series this fall.

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Oh Earth, Wait for
Me: Conversations

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on Art and Ecology.

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And we're really thrilled to
have Sandra Alcosser with us.

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Many of us have been
reading her work

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in Eric Magrane's ecopoetics
class and enjoying it so much.

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So it's particularly
wonderful to have you with us.

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I want to just mention
briefly that her books will

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be for sale courtesy
of UA bookstore

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and we'll be signing
outside in the breezeway

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after the reading.

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We're very grateful
to the Center

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for Biological Diversity, our
co-sponsor for this series

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this fall.

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It's also made possible
through a grant

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from the National
Endowment for the Arts,

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our Friends of the Poetry
Center and the Institute

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for the Environment.

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Our next presentation
takes place in two weeks,

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so kind of a two part
thing, a little different

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than our other
presentations so far.

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We're going to be talking about
more experimental and emergent

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forms of ecopoetry.

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Thursday, October 22, Jonathan
Skinner is going to be here.

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Jonathan is the editor
of Ecopoetics journal.

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He's going to read
his own work and talk

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about some new
voices I think you'll

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be interested to learn about.

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On Friday the 23rd, the
next day, Juliana Spahr

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will read from her work.

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And what's going to happen is
that Jonathan and Juliana are

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going to introduce each other.

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They will make a
presentation and then

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they'll do a Q and A afterwards.

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So it'll be a great chance to
hear them talk to each other

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as well as to hear
their own work.

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If you'd like to learn more
about Juliana Spahr's work,

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you have an opportunity to
do that on Monday the 19th.

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Our friend and MFA student Chris
Nelson who's sitting right here

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is going to lead a
Shop Talk discussion

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at the Poetry Center
in the library

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so make sure to come to that.

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One other quick announcement.

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We do have a few places left for
Ann Fine's Good Poem, Bad Poem

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poetry workshop that
starts next Thursday.

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So if you want to
take that class

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go there and talk to Cybele.

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She'd be happy to enroll you
or give us a call on Monday

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if you think you need the
weekend to think about it.

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But you better hurry
because it's about to go.

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Information on all of these
events I've just mentioned

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can be found in our events
guide or on our website.

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I think there are some events
guides over there on the table.

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You know this fall
the Poetry Center has

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been very fortunate to work with
several very talented interns

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all of whom are students in the
MFA program creative writing.

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Nonfiction student Allie
Leach is our programs intern.

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She works with Cybele Knowles,
our events coordinator.

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And she is going to introduce
our speaker for tonight.

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Allie.

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[APPLAUSE]

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