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Hello, everybody.

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How are you all?

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Good.

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Good work.

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You're choosing a magnificent
way to end your Januaries,

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so I want to tell you
thank you for doing that

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and also applaud you for
your incredible taste

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for what to do on a
Thursday night in Tucson.

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Thank you so much for
coming to the Poetry Center.

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It's a thrill to have
such a good crowd here.

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To welcome back a poet
from this place who's

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been here many times,
and it's such a thrill

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to have her back in these spaces
and with us, Brenda Hillman.

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So thank you Brenda.

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My name is Tyler Meier,
and I'm the director here

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at the Poetry Center.

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I've just have a
couple things I'll

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say very quickly
about things that

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are coming up at the Center
to keep you in the loop about.

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One of them is an event
that's happening just two

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days from now, and that's our
next reading or event that's

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going to be at 3 o'clock.

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So this is Saturday back
here at the Poetry Center.

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We don't often do events
on Saturdays in this way

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or at that time, but I want to
make sure you know about it.

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That's an event with the
poet Robert Hass, who's

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also here with us, which
we're very excited about.

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And want to tell
you that event will

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be focused on some
translations that Bob has done

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of Czesław Miłosz, especially.

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And so if you're excited about
Miłosz, and you should be,

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and if you're not, you
should come to become excited

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about that work.

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We'll hear more about that
from Bob and some of the things

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he's been thinking about.

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We're thrilled about that.

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That's another free
event back here,

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3 o'clock at the Poetry
Center on Saturday.

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And I hope you'll
come back and join us.

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Beyond that, the next reading
in our series is on February 22,

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and that's a partnership with
the Grupo Letras Latinas, which

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has done work of presenting
avant-garde work by Latinx

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writers and broadening the
scope of how we might imagine

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the continuum of that work from
writers as they presented it

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from the 20th
century and beyond.

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We're thrilled
about that, thrilled

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to be in partnership with the
Letras Latinas many times.

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It's their 20th anniversary,
and the three poets

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who will be coming
to present with us

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are Gina Franco, Sheila
Maldonado, and Edgar Garcia,

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and then we'll be hosted by
Laura Villarreal from Letras

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Latinas.

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So come back to that.

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That's February 22.

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We're very excited
about that, too.

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I also want to keep you in the
loop about a new partnership

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that we're thrilled for
between the Poetry Center

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and the College of Science.

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So the College of
Science each year

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does a lecture series where
they present topics of research

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from faculty members
in the college.

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That happens this year
each Wednesday night

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at Centennial Hall in
the month of February.

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So the first one is
February 7th, and then

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each Wednesday night after
that, and they're each at 7 PM.

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And the theme this year
is surprising twists that

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have come from other research.

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So someone's researching one
thing and discovers something

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else entirely and says,
this is actually exciting

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and learns more about it.

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So we're going to
hear about that

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from four different researchers
on the U of A campus.

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They've asked the Poetry Center
to present a poet as a way

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to enter into each of those
presentations and lectures,

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And so we're very
excited to have

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a poet introducing those
lectures in Centennial Hall.

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Our first is February
7th, 7 o'clock,

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and that is with the poet
Julie Swarstad Johnson, who's

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here with us at
the Poetry Center,

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and we're really
excited about that.

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And the topic is
about black holes,

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and Julie's written a
great poem about this.

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So we'll have a little broadside
to share with you if you come.

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Those are free each
Wednesday night in February.

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I'm really excited to introduce
or welcome up the person who's

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going to say more
about Brenda, and this

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is the poet Jane Miller,
also no stranger to Tucson,

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a faculty member at the
University of Arizona

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for many, many years, stepped
back from that role now,

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author of 12 books, and
most recently, the really

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terrific new book,
Paper Banners.

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Please help me
welcome Jane Miller.

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[APPLAUSE]

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