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How is everybody?

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Great.

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Good.

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All right.

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Can you hear me OK in the back?

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You can.

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OK.

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Welcome.

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Glad you all are here.

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Happy Thursday.

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Welcome to the Poetry Center.

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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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Thrilled you guys are here
for a reading tonight.

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Excellent choosing of your
Thursday night activities.

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I commend you.

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And I want to tell
you about a couple

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upcoming events at
the Poetry Center

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that we want to make
sure you know about.

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We'd love to see you back
here for a few readings that

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are coming up in March.

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So this is our last.

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This is a special day
that we don't always

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do readings on leap day.

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And so this is a special thing
that has been created especially

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for Matthew Zapruder.

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I'm kidding.

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But we are thrilled that
Matthew is back in Tucson

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to share work with us and as
a great friend of the Poetry

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Center, and a thrill to have him
back in this part of the world.

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Coming up in March,
I want to tell you.

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So our next event at the
Poetry Center that's reading

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will be with the
poet John Murillo.

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John is our spring
poet in residence.

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So he's going to spend
about 10 days with us.

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Work on some new material
in the Poet's Cottage.

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And then do a reading for us.

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And that's going
to be on the 14th.

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So after you're
exhausted and recovered

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from the Festival
of Books, you'll

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feel great about going to
a poetry reading again.

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And that will be on the Thursday
of the 14th with John Murillo,

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7:00 o'clock here at
the Poetry Center.

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On the 21st, there's
a celebration

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of Aurelie Sheehan, another
great friend of the Poetry

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Center and a writer
who we lost last year,

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and a great friend at
the University of Arizona

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and for writing in general in
this part of the United States,

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and broadly everywhere.

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And so we're thrilled
to be celebrating

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Aurelie and her work.

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And that's open to the public.

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And that's going to
be at 7:00 o'clock.

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And there is probably going
to be some lemonade and carrot

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cake involved before that
reading, if you're so inclined.

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Details still to be sorted.

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But please come help us
celebrate Aurelie in her work

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and to listen to so many that
she was an influence for.

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And at the end of
March, we have a reading

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with the poet Saretta Morgan,
who has a first book coming out,

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called Alt Nature.

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And we're really excited about
this book and this project.

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That's on the 28th of March
back here at 7:00 o'clock

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at the Poetry Center.

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And there will be an encore
performance connected to that.

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That book includes a kind
of polyvocal section.

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And so on the Friday,
we're going to partner

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up with MOCA Tucson.

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And there will be an event where
that polyvocal part of the book

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will come alive with a
group of different readers.

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So you can hear from both
parts of that Thursday night

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here on the 28th at the
Poetry Center, Friday

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the 29th at MOCA for the
performative part of that piece

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as well.

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Lots of great things coming up.

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You can find out about
all of those things

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in this calendar, which will
tell you nearly all of it.

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And the Poetry Center website is
a great place to check as well.

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So if you don't
have one of these,

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they're available around
the corner, on the table

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next to the book
selling station, which

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is a thing to know about.

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Books are for sale.

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And so we hope after the
reading, we'll skip a Q & A,

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but we want you to come hang out
with Matthew and speak with him.

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So come buy a book and come
speak with him afterwards.

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And I'm sure that
the bookstore will

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be happy to sell you
as many as they have.

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

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Center, Joni Wallace, to help
introduce Matthew to you all.

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Joni Wallace is a great
poet here in Tucson.

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Her most recent collection,
it's her third full length,

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and it is called Landscape
with Missing River.

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She's a frequent collaborator
with the Poetry Center

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and an instructor with us.

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Landscape with Missing River
was the Arizona/ New Mexico Book

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Award winner from last year.

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And we're thrilled that
Joni is here with us.

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So please help us
welcome Joni Wallace.

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Yeah.

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[CLAPPING]

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