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[SIDE CONVERSATIONS]

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Good evening, everyone.

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Oops, my voice is
really scratchy.

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It's like it is 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

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after over two 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
how the night will go.

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I want to remind everyone
that our next reading will

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occur on Thursday,
December 2, and we'll

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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.

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And part of the co-reading
is that it is a Tom Sanders

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Memorial Reading.

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And I just want to
share a few things

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about who Tom
Sanders was and just

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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 about his life,

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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 Adela, I just

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want to say a few words about
Adela and then also Alison

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just so you guys know just who
is introducing who because it's

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just such an honor because we
have so many badasses on stage

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tonight that it's like,
I'm trying to navigate all

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this badass stuff 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, and maybe

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you can even work with Adela
if you are lucky enough

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because we're currently
working with her,

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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

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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, Fisherman,

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and the Sardine Dress,
which was published

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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.

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She has many--

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2016 Stairway To Heaven
and Death Valley:

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Painted Light, which is a
collaboration, actually,

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with photographer Stephen Strom.

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She has an essay
collection, Zoologies:

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On Animals and the Human Spirit,
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 red hardback book.

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It 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
The Red Book.

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It's similar to that color.

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But anyway, please buy books.

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And I'll leave it to Adela.

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Now thank you, everyone.

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[APPLAUSE]

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