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All right, everyone.

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Let's all bring
our conversations

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to a close please.

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Thank you.

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It's so awesome though
to hear your voices

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and to be here in
community with you just

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talking to one another.

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My name is Diana Delgado.

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I'm the literary director
here at the Poetry Center.

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And I'm really, really honored
tonight to host Victoria Chang.

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I do-- I do want to just say
thank you for coming here

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tonight to be with
us while we celebrate

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the work of Victoria Chang.

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But I also want to acknowledge
that the University of Arizona

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community is still processing
from a tragedy that occurred

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here on campus yesterday.

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I really hope that
tonight's reading

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can bring us closer
together in solidarity,

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in opposition to
violence, and really

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encourage us to communicate
with one another

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and hold each other in
support in these times

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when I think it's
really important for us

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to hold space for one another.

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So I just want to thank you all
for being here with us tonight

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to celebrate Victoria and also
to be here together in a place

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that I feel we really
want to promote safety

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and just togetherness
here at the Poetry Center.

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So thank you.

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A few just housekeeping things.

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Please shut off your phones
and that includes the ringers,

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please.

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Whichever of the two is
going to work for you.

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Also please unwrap any
candies that you have,

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any bags or
toiletries, or things

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that you're going to dig into,
maybe just get it out now.

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That will be helpful
for all of us.

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The other thing is we
have books for sale.

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We have beautiful books by
Victoria that are for sale.

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This is one of them, which
is it's just gorgeous.

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The Trees Witness Everything.

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We have three of
those books they're

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for sale, which Victoria will
be signing after the reading.

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So thank you, Victoria.

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I now want to remind everybody
that next Thursday at the HSIB

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building, so please do not
show up at the Poetry Center,

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we will be hosting Rita Dove
on Thursday, October 13.

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It's going to be a very big
reading just like this reading.

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But we just want to
encourage everyone

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to just understand
that it's not here

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because we've had that happen.

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Because people are so
used to coming here.

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But it's going to be further
down this way to the left.

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Just go straight, left, and
you'll be at the HSIB building.

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That's next Thursday.

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OK.

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I would like to share a few
words about our introducer

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tonight Ander Monson.

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Ander Monson's most recent
books are Predator: A Memoir,

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a Movie, an Obsession,
I Will Take the Answer,

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and The Gnome Stories which
are all published by Graywolf.

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Yeah.

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Awesome.

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He edits the magazine DIAGRAM,
Essay Daily, New Michigan

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Press, the Assessment
Matters Institute, which

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is one of my favorites,
let me tell you,

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always liking that whatever
you do with that Institute,

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and March Madness,
among other projects.

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And, of course, he teaches here
at the University of Arizona.

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I want I want to
welcome Ander Monson up

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to introduce Victoria Chang.

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Thank you, Ander.

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[APPLAUSE]

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