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Hi.

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Welcome to the first evening of
the Spring 2005 Visiting Poets

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and Writers Reading Series.

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I'm Frances Sjoberg, literary
director of the Poetry Center,

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and we're thrilled
to kick off tonight--

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this season with David
Dominguez, Brenda Shaughnessy,

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and Gary Copeland Lilley.

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These poets were
selected to read

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as part of our
series, Emergence:

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The Next Word in Poetry,
because we at the Poetry Center,

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believe their work
heralds a dynamic era

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for American poetry.

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Our readers will be
introduced tonight

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by graduate poets in the
University of Arizona's

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Creative Writing program.

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They are Jodi Kendall, Dawn
Pendergast, and Josh Fox.

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We didn't review the
reading order tonight,

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so we're going to do it in
that order, if that's OK.

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David, and then
Brenda, and then Gary.