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Hey, everybody.

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Welcome.

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How are you all?

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Good.

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Come in.

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If you're arriving,
there's more seats,

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there's some seats inside
and more seats in the back

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too if you want to grab extra
chairs that are in the back.

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But glad to have a good crowd
on a Thursday night in Tucson,

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thanks for being here.

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My name is Tyler.

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I work here as the director
at the Poetry Center.

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Lovely to have a big crowd here
for Saretta Morgan who we're

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thrilled to welcome
back to Tucson,

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and to read from her newest work
and from this wonderful book,

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Alt-Nature.

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And I wanted to just
quickly give you guys

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a couple of updates
on some things

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that are happening next
at the Poetry Center

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so everybody has some context.

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First thing to say
is that there's

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a second event that's connected
to this one tonight that's

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happening tomorrow night.

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And that's going
to be at 6 o'clock

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at the Museum of Contemporary
Art here in Tucson, so

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MOCA Tucson.

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Free event, 6 o'clock.

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And it will be a section
of this book that will

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bring in four other voices--

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four voices to perform
a polyphonic way,

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that section of the book, so
a performative aspect of it.

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And the four voices that
you'll hear; Amber Morningstar

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Byars will be here to read,
Raquel Gutiérrez will be here

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to read, Sasha Hawkins,
and Coco Montellano.

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It's going to be great.

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So choose to come again tomorrow
night 6 o'clock MOCA Tucson

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for the next part of
what you'll hear tonight.

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And we hope you guys
will come and join us.

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Next at the Center on April 4th,
so back here on a Thursday night

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next week, will be a
reading called "The Place

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where Clouds are Formed."

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And it's a reading that's
connected to an exhibit that's

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launching at the Poetry
Center that will be installed

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relatively soon, but
the official launch date

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is the fourth as well.

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So you can come a little bit
early and enjoy the exhibit,

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and then come back
for the reading

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or stay for the reading
that'll be at 7 o'clock.

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So the center will be open the
whole time up until the reading

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starts and a little
bit after the reading

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as well to enjoy that exhibit.

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And that's going to feature
the poets Ofelia Zepeda,

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Amber Lee Ortega, and
Su:k Chu:vak Fulwider,

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and we're really
excited about that.

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That's a collaborative exhibit
that's happening over our space

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here at the Poetry Center
and also at the Center

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for Creative Photography.

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And it will be up throughout
the rest of the spring,

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and it's a beautiful
exhibit that

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tells this particular
story about experiences

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of the borderlands.

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It's perhaps very different
from what we sometimes

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get in the national media.

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And we're really pleased with
that and excited about it.

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So come back and check
that out and join us.

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April 11th.

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If you've been following
along in our calendar,

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we were to have a visit from the
Mexican novelist Brenda Lozano.

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And that has unfortunately
needed to be postponed,

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and so-- and it's
for a good reason.

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Brenda has a chance
through her publisher

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to go do a tour of Spain
as part of the work that's

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happening with that book.

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We're going to postpone that
event that would happen here

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until August 29.

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So Brenda is still coming
just slightly later.

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And if you were planning
to come to that,

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we hope to see you come back
in August when she'll be here.

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And then the last
thing to say is

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something that's very,
very new and we'll soon

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have on our website.

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And some of you--
how many of you

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know about the mural project
happening on Speedway Boulevard?

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Some of you do.

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OK, good.

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If you don't know about it,
I'm excited to just give you

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a quick context for it.

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There are six new murals on the
Speedway corridor through campus

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that are all done by
six different muralists

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through the Alley Cat
Muralist Collective.

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And they feature the work
taking their inspiration

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from the poetry of
six different poets.

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And so those murals
are now completed.

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They're all on
Speedway and we're

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going to have an event on April
23 to launch those murals.

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That's going to be at 5 o'clock
here at the Poetry Center.

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And this event will be
on our website soon.

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And we're going to
meet here, we'll

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hear a little bit
about the project

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here from some of
the participants.

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There will be ice cream
and vegan options.

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And then it will be a
self-paced walking or rolling

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experience of going to see
the art in different spaces

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on Speedway, just
outside and we'll

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circle back to the
Poetry Center at the end.

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They're really beautiful.

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And so if you're
driving along Speedway

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and you see beautiful
things to the left

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or to the right, that's
probably what's happening,

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are these great murals
based on poets and poems.

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It's my pleasure to welcome
a great friend of the Poetry

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Center, Marianna
ColesCurtis, who's going

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to introduce Saretta Morgan.

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Marianna is a volunteer here
at the Poetry Center and works

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in our Free Time program
and has collaborated with us

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in different ways.

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A great friend and a great
gift that they're here to help

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introduce tonight Saretta.

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They're a poet and an activist.

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Their work can be found in Yes
Poetry, Hunger Mountain, Sundog

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Lit, and in other places.

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Please help me welcome
Marianna ColesCurtis.

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[APPLAUSE]

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