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Hi, Tucson.

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Can you hear me OK?

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Yep.

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All right, good.

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I'm going to ask you to forgive
me from reading from my notes

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here.

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I'm trying to keep this brief.

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Thanks first, of course,
to the very hard working

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teams of Letras Latinas
and the Poetry Center.

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This has just been
a fabulous visit.

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And some of you know that
I lived here for 12 years,

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went to Pima Community College.

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Some of my teachers are here.

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Yeah.

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And I grew up three hours from
Tucson in a small mining town,

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copper mining, Clifton-Morenci.

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And so tonight, I'm
going to read the few--

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there are, I think,
just a few poems

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that are actually
about copper mining

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and what it meant to me to grow
up as third-generation copper

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miner's daughter.

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OK.

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And I'm doing that
particularly because--

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Joshua Keeling are you here?

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I have a book for you.

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Come up.

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Joshua Keeling, who is your
own Tucson-based composer,

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approached me recently and asked
about setting some of my work

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maybe to some music
that was commissioned--

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let's see-- by the director
of the University of Arizona's

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community choir, Nicole
Davis, and in conjunction

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with the Arizona Gem
and Mineral Museum.

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And you all can hear these
poems and then attend

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that concert on April
21st here in Tucson,

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if you'd like to do that.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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And I might not be
able to attend it,

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but I'm looking forward to
how he's put things together

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because he's made some hybrid
work of a couple of the poems.

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So let's see, what else?

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I'm going to read three of those
poems from "The Accidental."

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And then if there
is time, I'll read

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you a short section
from a long poem called

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"Throne" that comes from my
just finished third book.

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That-- yeah.

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So I'll be sharing
that with you if I can.

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Thank you.

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