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Good evening, everyone.

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Oops, my voice is
really scratchy.

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It's just not even there.

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Good evening, everyone.

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Welcome to the Poetry Center
on this beautiful night.

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This is the first time I've been
in the room after over 2 years.

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So this is a very big event.

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So I just want to give around
warm of applause to all of us

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for just coming together again
in community here tonight.

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It's been a lot of
tough times, but I'm

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happy to be here with
you all in Tucson.

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For those of you
who don't know me,

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I'm the literary director here,
and I'm honored tonight to host

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poets Carl Marcum and
Laurie Ann Guerrero

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as part of our reading
and lecture series.

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I just have a few
things before we begin,

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just so that you know kind
of how the night will go.

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I want to remind everyone that
our next reading will occur

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on Thursday, December 2nd, and
we'll be hosting Jericho Brown,

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so please come out for that.

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That's going to be a
really beautiful event.

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I also want to share with
everyone that tonight's event

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is a co-reading, and
part of the co-reading

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is that it is a Tom
Sanders Memorial Reading.

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And I just want to
share a few things who

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Tom Sanders was, and just so
you'll have an idea about that.

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So it was established by the
generosity of Tom's friends

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in 2017, and this
event features writers

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who were former students at the
University of Arizona, writers

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who were formerly
or currently members

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of the University of Arizona
faculty, or University

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of Arizona Press authors.

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So Carl Marcum is an alum of
the UA Creative Writing Program.

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He actually studied
with Alison Deming,

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so he's here on behalf
of that to honor

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the memory of Tom Sanders.

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And if you'd like to read
more about Tom Sanders,

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please go to our website.

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We have a lot of
just information

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about his life and just his
spirit and how generous he was.

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The reading order is going to be
Adela Licona introducing Laurie

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Ann Guerrero, and then we'll
have Alison Deming come up

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and introduce Carl Marcum.

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And before I bring up--

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I'm sorry, before
I bring up Adela,

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I just want to say a
few words about Adela,

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and then also Alison just
so you guys know just

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who is introducing who
because it's just such

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an honor because we have so
many badasses on stage tonight.

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That it's like, I'm trying to
navigate all this badass stuff

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here to share with
you so you know

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who it is that's in the house.

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So just a few words
about Adela Licona.

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Adela Licona is
basically the visionary

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behind the Art for
Change Agency, which

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serves and supports
critical voices

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and creative visions
working individually

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and through academic
grassroots and

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other organizational
engagements and affiliations

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for social change.

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This agency started
in an attempt

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to support and promote just
meaningful and joyful ways

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of working.

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Adela brings decades
of experience

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in higher education, feminist
and intersectional leadership,

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community organizing,
creative collaboration

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in the arts to academics
and creative writers,

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artists, and activists.

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So that is just a shortened bio.

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But if you also want to know
more, head to her website--

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the Art of Change Agency
and you will know more,

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and maybe you could
even work with Adela

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if you are lucky enough
because we're currently

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working with her, and
it's just been an honor.

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So that's Adela.

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The other person I want to say
a few words about before Adela

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comes up and introduces
Laurie Ann Guerrero

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is about Alison Hawthorne Deming
who grew up in Connecticut.

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And if you have not
already picked it up,

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her new nonfiction book,
"A Woven World: On Fashion,

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Fishermen, and the
Sardine Dress,"

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which was published by
Counterpoint Press in 2021.

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So if you don't have that
book, you should get that book.

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That's another amazing
thing that you want

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to make sure that you pick up.

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Her other books of
poetry, she has many,

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is 2016 "Stairway to Heaven" and
"Death Valley: Painted Light,"

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which is a collaboration
actually with photographer

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Stephen Strom.

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She has an essay
collection, "Zoologies:

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On Animals and
the Human Spirit,"

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which was published in 2014.

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She's a Guggenheim Fellow,
the author of "Science

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and Other Poems," winner
of the Walt Whitman

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Award from the Academy
of American Poets,

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and a whole bunch of
other amazing things.

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So I'll just stop there.

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But anyway, just we
need to recognize that.

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Before Adela comes
up, I would just

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like to say, please buy books.

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We've had a long hiatus.

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This is something really
special for us to come together,

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and it's really great to
be able to meet the author

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and to have them here in person.

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And Carl Marcum's most recent
book is "A Camera Obscura."

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So I brought that up,
so you could see it.

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It's right over here.

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And then Laurie Ann
Guerrero has a series

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of selected poems as part of the
TCU Texas Poet Laureate Series.

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And this is a really
beautiful read hardback book.

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It kind of looks like
the Bible or something.

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It just looks very,
very official.

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I think Carl Jung's "Red Book,"
it's similar to that color.

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But anyway, please buy books.

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And I'll leave you to Adela now.

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Thank you, everyone.

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[APPLAUSE]

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