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Good timing.

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Hello, how are you all?

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Well, OK, very good.

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Nice to see folks.

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Welcome to the Poetry Center.

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We're so happy to see folks
coming back to this space.

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It's been a long time.

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So we can start by giving
yourselves around of applause.

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Thank you.

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And we're so thrilled to have
poets visiting again in Tucson,

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and to do that in a way
that is exciting, and safe,

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and celebrating their
work and their books,

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and their presence.

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And that's a hallmark of what
happens here at the Poetry

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Center, and it's a real thrill
to have Mahogany Browne here

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visiting in Tucson again,
but for the first time

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in a long time.

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And so welcome back, Mahogany.

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We're really pleased.

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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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I see some familiar faces,
and also some new ones.

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So please come
introduce yourself,

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we're excited to be
friends with you.

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I wanted to point out
a couple of things

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that have changed
here in the Rubel Room

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where we do our readings.

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So we're really excited to
have our indoor outdoor effort

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and a lot of air flowing around.

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It means a lot that
you're wearing your masks,

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so thank you for doing that.

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And that helps us bring poets in
a safe way, which we're really

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excited about.

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But we also have a new teaching
station, an all new technology,

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new speakers that we
worked on during the time

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that we had off.

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So if you can hear me
well in the breezeway,

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and you couldn't in the past.

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Thanks for those speakers.

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New lights, a whole new
technology system, so Nate

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is livestreaming us right now.

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So if you're listening
online, we're

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really pleased that
you're joining us.

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As well as some new technology
that supports people

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that use hearing
devices, and so if you

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use a device in our inside
the carpeted area there's

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a loop system now so that will
go directly into those devices,

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and there's also an app called
the Listen Everywhere app that

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will use a Bluetooth
directly from the soundboard,

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and connect also directly
to hearing devices.

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So we're really excited
about all of that.

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Mahogany is a kindred spirit.

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And so we've worked with
Mahogany in different ways

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at the Poetry Center
through her work as a poet

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and as an administrator.

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If you've been a part of
our Art for Justice work

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that's happened over
the past three years

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or attended any
of those readings,

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Mahogany is very much a
kindred spirit in this work

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and has also been supported
by the Art for Justice

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Fund for her interest in
these topics and her work

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and activism around
these topics.

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And so in a way,
this extends some

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of that work and
poets that have we've

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hosted here in Tucson
who've been thinking

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about incarceration
and the connection

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between imaginative
language and how

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we think about the
future and the legacy

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of what incarceration
means for the people who

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have been directly impacted
and really for all of us.

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So we're so pleased that she's
here in all of these ways.

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If you walked in and you saw
there was a table out front

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that had these very
delightful brochures that

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tell you everything that's
happening at the Poetry Center,

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you'll want one of
these because you

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want to know what's
happening here,

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including the next reading,
which I would tell you about.

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It's going to be on
November 4, and it

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features visiting poets Laurie
Ann Guerrero and Carl Marcum,

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and they'll be reading together
in the Tom Sanders Memorial

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Reading and that's at
7 o'clock on November 4

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back here at the Poetry
Center in this space.

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Tonight we're celebrating
Mahogany's latest,

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newest poetry book, and
Paola is going to tell you

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about that very soon.

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It looks like this.

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And it is for sale over there.

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And, so please
pick this book up.

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This is hot off the presses.

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We'll be hearing
from it tonight.

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Mahogany is going be excited
to sign those after the reading

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and talk to you about this work.

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We're going to skip
a formal Q & A,

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and just go straight to the book
selling, and signing, so come

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up and speak with us afterwards.

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And it's my pleasure,
I mentioned Paola,

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to introduce to you Paola,
if you don't know her.

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Paola Valenzuela is
our newest colleague

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here at the Poetry Center.

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She's the event coordinator
here now, and she's amazing.

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And so if you're
enjoying where you're

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sitting, if you can
hear really well,

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if you like how things
have been organized,

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it's largely because Paola
is doing a really great job.

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She's been here for a month.

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So give hera round of applause.

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For what she's up to.

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[CLAPPING]

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She's no stranger
to poetry in Tucson.

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And you can read her poetry
book inside the poetry library

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across the way, it's
called Cricket's Lament,

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and her last name
again Valenzuela,

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so you'll find it
underneath the Vs.

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And we're just so
thrilled that she's here.

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And she's going to come
up and welcome Mahogany.

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And so please again
help me welcome

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Paola Valenzuela, our new
colleague at the Poetry Center.

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[CLAPPING]