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Welcome.

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Thank you, everyone,
for tuning in.

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My name is Diana Delgado, and
I am the Literary Director here

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at the University of
Arizona Poetry Center.

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We are here to celebrate
Torrin Greathouse who

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was our 2020 Summer
Residency Program awardee.

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But unfortunately, due
to the many complications

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that we've had over
the past two years,

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we have not been able to host
them at the Poetry Center.

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But what we did want to do was
to celebrate the great work

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that they are doing
in poetry, which

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was chosen by the 2020 Summer
Residency judge, sam sax.

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And sam said many great
things about Torrin's work,

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and we're excited
because we'll be

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able to get to hear of
Torrin's work firsthand.

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Just a few things about the
Summer Residency Program--

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we're hoping to begin that
again in 2023 as best as we can.

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But just a little bit
about the Poetry Center

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is that the Poetry Center
was founded in 1994

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at the University of Arizona.

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And we've been offering
poets the opportunity

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to spend two weeks in
Tucson in the summer

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to focus on their writing.

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Residents are housed in the
Poetry Center studio apartment,

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which is located just steps
away from the Center's

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renowned library of
contemporary poetry.

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Residents also
receive a stipend,

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and they give a public reading
of the Poetry Center's reading

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and lecture series, which
has been ongoing since 1962.

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I mentioned this,
but just in case

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anybody's interested
in applying,

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the residency is
offered annually

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between late June and August.

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Now I have the honor
of introducing Torrin.

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Torrin A. Greathouse is a
transgender cripple-punk,

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an MFA candidate at the
University of Minnesota.

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Her work is published in POETRY,
Ploughshares, New England

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Review, and The Kenyon Review.

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They have received fellowships
from the National Endowment

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for the Arts--

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awesome , the Effing Foundation
for Sex-Positivity, Zoeglossia,

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and the University of
Arizona Poetry Center.

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She is the author of
Wound Through the Mouth

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of Wound, Milkweed Editions,
published in 2020-- selected

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for the Ballard Spahr
Prize for Poetry

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by Aimee Nezhukumatathil.

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Everyone, Torrin Greathouse.

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Welcome.