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Hello, everyone.

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I'm so honored to be here.

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Thank you to Paola and
Mars for setting up

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this reading and this space.

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Thank you, Tyler, for hanging
out and being here and doing

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some really good
driving in the Jeep.

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Aria, it's been wonderful
to meet you in person.

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Aria was in a poetry
manuscript class

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that I taught last year
for Asian-American poets

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and was a wonderful
presence there.

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So it's nice to see where
you can merge and converge

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with people.

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Also thank you to
Sarah and Julie

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for hanging out and
talking about archives

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like a Geek Squad but books.

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It's been really wonderful
to be in this space.

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I love being in and
at poetry libraries.

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If you know my history as a
writer, I spent a lot of time

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at this library
called Poets House

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at the beginning of my
writing journey as an adult.

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And it certainly
changed my trajectory

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from what I thought I was
going to be doing with my life.

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So in honor of the
archive, I thought

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I would read poems in
chronological order,

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from the early times to the
first book to the second book.

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And then I'll close with some
new poems, maybe plural, maybe

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singular, depending on
the time that my watch is

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going to tell me.

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OK.

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