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[APPLAUSE]

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Hello, everybody.

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Can you hear me?

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Anyone has a thumbs up?

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OK, thank you
whoever said, yeah.

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Let's see.

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[SPEAKING NEZ PERCE]

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I'm joining you here
from Tokyo, Japan,

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and I want to give a
[SPEAKING NEZ PERCE],,

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a large thank you to Bojan
Louis and the University

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of Arizona Poetry Center and to
Jennifer, who will follow me.

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I'm going to be reading about
four or five poems from my book

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Swallowed Light.

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This is my second time
to read from the book.

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So I'm a little
bit nervous still,

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and then I'm going to read a--

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I guess, a newer poem.

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At this point, it's
quite old in retrospect,

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but it's part of newer work, I
guess, but I'll get into this.

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Again, thank you, Bojan, for
your patience and kindness

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throughout these several months.

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One thing I do want to read
first is in my acknowledgments.

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One thing I really wanted
to say is, especially

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for young writers, to any
Indigenous writer out there,

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to every Indigenous writer
poet and artist before

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and after me, you and the
languages and worlds that

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make you are ever possible
and limitlessly gorgeous.

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As someone who's lived
outside of the United States

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for almost a decade
now, I always

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have to remember
that those who came

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before me, those beside
me, and those who will come

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to take these spaces.

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I'm forever grateful
for us, I should say.