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Hello, everyone.

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Welcome.

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Hello, hello, hello.

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Hi everybody.

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Can you hear me OK?

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Yes.

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You can?

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Can you hear me in the back?

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Great.

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Thumbs up.

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That's a lot of thumbs up.

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Thanks for that.

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I'm a fan of thumbs up.

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So that was really exciting.

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Great to have so
many folks here.

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If you're coming in and there's
not-- it's hard to find seats,

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there's a few more that
are over here in the stack.

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So if you need an extra seat,
come over here where Julie is.

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There's extra seats there.

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A few more left.

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It's pretty awesome to
have a reading where

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all the seats are taken.

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So thanks for doing this.

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[APPLAUSE]

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And lovely to see so many faces
on a Thursday night in Tucson.

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It feels on the cusp,
before we're all

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about to be very,
very hot together,

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and so thanks for this moment of
coolness that we get to share.

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We are cool.

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We're here at a poetry
reading on Thursday

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at the Poetry Center, so.

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My name is Tyler.

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I work here as the Director
of the Poetry Center.

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It's a great pleasure
to welcome everybody.

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And so thank you
so much for coming.

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We are so thrilled to have
Jane Hirshfield back in Tucson.

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[APPLAUSE]

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Jane and I were
talking earlier about

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that we need to do
this more frequently.

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So we'll have her
back again soon.

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And we're really thrilled
that she's here now

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to share work with us from
amazing recent work and all

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the way back throughout
her whole oeuvre,

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and so we're so grateful.

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She brought two very beautiful
broadsides to the Poetry Center

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as a gift, and so
if you have a chance

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to come visit us at the Poetry
Center, please ask to see them.

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Both are poems from her most
recent collection of book

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and they're beautiful
treatments in broadside format.

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The title poem, "Ledger,"
and then the poem,

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also, "Let Them Not Say."

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And they're both beautifully
presented in the broadside

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format, so I hope you'll
come and check that out.

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A couple of things.

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I want to say very quickly
just about upcoming programs

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at the Poetry Center,
if there are children

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in your life, your
own or others,

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and you might like to bring
them to a poetry-themed event

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or program on the 22nd
of this month of April,

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we'll have the return of
our Kids Create program,

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where we turn the
entire library over

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to kids for most of the day.

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And so it's a
wonderful experience,

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and it's especially
targeted for kids

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who are infant up to age 10.

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And we will have a
performance at that time

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from the theatrical
group Stories That Soar.

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So if you know that group,
it's a really exciting time

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and it's a lot of fun, and
so that's on the 22nd back

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here at the Poetry
Center at 10:00 AM.

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I hope you'll come join us and
bring some children with you.

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There's a brand new exhibit
at the Poetry Center right now

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called Cut and Paste,
and it's an exhibit that

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features the work of zines,
zine culture and zine making,

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and it's a really wonderful
exploration of that form

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and the work that
happens in that space.

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And there are so many
great creators here

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in Tucson who are
using that form

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and those materials,
and this exhibit

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tells some of that story,
as well as broadly how that

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fits in the culture of
zine making in the country.

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And so please come
see that as well.

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That's available while
the Poetry Center is open.

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Our last reading of the
season with visiting writers

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will be on the 27th of
the month, of this month,

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and that will feature-- that's
the Distinguished Visiting

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Writers Series in partnership
with the MFA program,

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and it will feature the
writers Jennifer Elise Foerster

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and Michael Wasson,
and that's here

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at 7:00 at the Poetry Center.

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Again the 27th, back here,
free and for all of you

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we'd love to see you
back in this space.

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Books are for sale after the
reading over here inside,

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and so there are
still some left.

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I know a lot of them
have been sold already.

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So if you're interested in
purchasing a book afterwards,

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we hope that you will.

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Jane is happy to sign
them after the reading.

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And we request that you
might wear a mask when

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you come into the signing line.

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And so if you need a
mask or don't have one,

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we have some more that are
available over at the book

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sales table, and that will
help us and support Jane

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as she's doing a lot
of traveling right now.

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We want to keep everybody
safe and supported.

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So thanks for doing that.

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It's, again, a really
big thrill to have

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Jane back here in Tucson,
and to help introduce her

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we have another wonderful
poet and presenter to help

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do that work.

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And I'm really excited
to ask the poet

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and essayist Katherine Larson
to come up to the podium now.

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Katherine's book Radial
Symmetry, her poetry book,

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was a Yale Younger Poets
pick and a new collection

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of essays that's titled
Wedding of the Foxes--

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Did I get that right?

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Yeah, good.

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Wedding of the Foxes is
just being submitted.

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Final edits are
happening, a book

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of essays with
Milkweed Editions.

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So it will be out in the next
maybe year, year and a half.

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And so it's my great pleasure
to welcome up Katherine Larson.

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Thanks so much, Katherine.

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[APPLAUSE]