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Hi, everyone.

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We can stop making friends
now and get back to business

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here at the Poetry Center.

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I'm kidding.

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But, hi, everyone.

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Welcome.

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It's a chilly but doable
night here in Tucson, Arizona.

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I heard somebody talking a
little bit about that we're

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fortunate that we can
still host readings

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in January because they're
learning about the weather

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reports in the
Midwest, and I agree.

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So we're very lucky, so I hope
that everyone is doing well.

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I'm Diana Marie Delgado.

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I'm a poet and the
literary director

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here at the University
of Arizona Poetry Center.

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Tonight, I'm happy, and I'm
sure you all are happy as well,

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and honored to host the Pulitzer
Prize winning poet Forrest

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Gander, who is the first
reader in our spring 2022

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reading and lecture series.

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Gander will be introduced by the
equally remarkable and amazing

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poet, human being, writer,
teacher, instructor,

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feminist, Alison Deming.

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And before we begin, I just have
a few very brief announcements

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because I want to sit down
and let you all focus on

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why we're here tonight to
listen to Forrest Gander read,

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but the first is that
Forrest will be signing books

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after the reading.

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So just after the reading we
have actually some books left,

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and so we'll probably set
him up somewhere here,

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and we'll get the
book signing going.

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So if you don't have a book, get
it quickly after the reading.

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Our spring calendar
has not come out yet,

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but I'm going to give you--

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may already know this,
but this is basically

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the breakdown of what
we're going to be

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doing for the next few months.

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So the next reading we have
is February 17, next month,

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and we'll be presenting Jay
Hopler and Kimberly Johnson.

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And then on March 17 we'll
have another co-reading

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with Marwa Helal and
Marcelo Hernandez Castillo.

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And then on April 7th
we'll host Donika Kelly.

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And April 14th, Sesshu
Foster will be here

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at the Poetry Center, and that
will close out our spring 2022.

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And we will also have
a summer reading,

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but that's to be announced.

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So thank you everyone
for your patience.

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And now I'd like to
invite Alison Deming up

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for the introduction.

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Thank you.

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[CLAPPING]

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