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[APPLAUSE]

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Hey, everybody.

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Thank you so much Oh.

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[LAUGHS] So thank you,
Tyler, for that warm welcome.

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That was really sweet.

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Thank you.

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And thank you everyone
for joining us tonight.

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I'm really excited
to see everyone.

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Like Tyler shared, I'm the
new Event Coordinator here

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at the Poetry Center.

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I feel really,
really lucky to be

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able to work for such
an amazing institution.

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And really with such an
amazing group of people.

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And there's so many wonderful
aspects of this job.

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But if I'm being honest
the best part of this job

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is that I get to host and
meet all these amazing poets.

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Poets who I've been
reading for my whole life.

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And I was especially
excited to be

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able to witness
Mahogany Browne's work,

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live, and in person, which right
now is especially exciting.

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If you're familiar
with Mahogany's work,

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then you already know.

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We're in for a really
incredible night.

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She's the author of
recent works Chlorine Sky,

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Woke: A Young Poet's
Call to Justice,

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Woke Baby, Black Girl Magic.

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And like Tyler just
mentioned, her recent

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project I Remember Death by
its Proximity to What I Love,

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which is a book length poem.

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Which is an expansive
poetic meditation

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on who we think is
bound by incarceration.

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She's also the Executive
Director of JustMedia,

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a media literacy
initiative designed

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to support the groundwork
of criminal justice leaders

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and community members.

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She's also the founder of the
diverse lit initiative Woke

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Baby Book Fair.

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And she has received
fellowships from Art

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for Justice, Serenbe, Cave
Canem, Poets House, Mellon

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Research, and Rauschenberg.

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Mahogany is also
the first ever poet

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in residence at the Lincoln
Center in New York City.

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Yeah.

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[APPLAUSE]

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So if you didn't know
Mahogany before tonight,

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brace yourselves.

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Because you're
about to find out.

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Awesome.

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Everyone please
join me in welcoming

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the wonderful Mahogany Browne.

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[APPLAUSE]

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