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I'm so happy to be
running for president,

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and I'm grateful to all
of you for coming out

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to this fundraiser.

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Just kidding.

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My name is Tyler, I work here,
as the director at the Poetry

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Center, and glad to see
so many of you coming out

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on a Tucson summer night for
this reading, in particular.

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Grateful for that--
two amazing readers.

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Two amazing readers.

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To introduce Vickie
and to introduce Erin,

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we have two wonderful
faculty members here

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with U of A, great friends
of the Poetry Center.

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Introducing Erin, who's
going to read first,

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is our friend
Ander Monson, who's

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a professor of
English and creative

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writing here at
the U of A, as well

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as the director of the creative
writing MFA program, here

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at the University.

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And then Adela Licona
is here, and she

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is a professor of English
at the University as well.

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She's also the interim
director for the Institute

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for LGBT studies, here
at the U of A. Big year,

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big job, amazing
collaborator for us

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here at the Poetry Center--

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very excited about both of them.