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So please come talk
with Amy afterwards

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about Teva Community and the
work that's happening there.

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It's incredible what's
being built there,

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and it's really exciting
to learn about it.

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And we're thrilled to have
Joshua and Aulton here with us

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today.

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So two of the
poets and lyricists

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who work with Brian who are
on the album, and that's

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one of the pleasures of today.

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So it's my pleasure,
I'm going to introduce

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Brian Laidlaw,
who's the performer,

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and the collaborator, and
the teacher, and the poet,

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and rock climber,
who's come to Tucson,

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to perform music from
this album that's

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been co-created with Josh,
and Aulton, and others.

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Brian works widely as
a poet, and a musician,

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and an educator,
and has releases

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that include a vinyl LP and
poetry chapbook Amoratorium,

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a book album called
The Stuntman,

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a 7 inch vinyl single
called Jeremiad,

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and then a follow-up full
length poetry collection

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called The Mirror Maker, that's
connected to that project.

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There's an LP and
translation folio

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out that's called This Aster-
Adaptations of Emile Nelligans.

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And then a new book
that's coming out,

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a prose book, about
rock climbing, which

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is pretty exciting too.

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So he's really busy and
doing a lot of things,

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in addition to his own
work and his own writing.

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He teaches at the
University College

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in the Masters in Professional
and Creative Writing program.

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He mentors neurodivergent
poets and songwriters

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through Unrestricted
Interest, which

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is a company that he co-founded
with the poet Chris Martin.

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Amy mentioned some of the
books that the Poetry Center

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collects.

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Unrestricted
Interest, in addition

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to a lot of the work that they
do, they also have an imprint

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and publish poems,
and publish books,

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and work with other
publishers to help

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those poets find pathways
forward to publication.

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And so we've been excited
to follow the work

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that they're doing with
the library collection,

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and our library staff has
done an amazing job tracking

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some of those happenings.

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So you can find those
at the Poetry Center.

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Brian, of course, also
tours as a musician,

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and so he's often touring
nationally and internationally

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solo and with his band that's
called The Family Trade.

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He's a wonderful person.

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We just had a delightful
lunch, and I'm

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really happy that he's
here in Tucson with us.

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Help me welcome Brian Laidlaw.

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Yeah.

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[CLAPPING]

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