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Hello, everybody.

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Welcome.

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How are you all?

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Good.

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Good.

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This one good.

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Is anyone else good?

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You're good.

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I was expecting you.

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Yeah, the jury's out.

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I'm pleased that
everybody's here.

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Thank you so much
for coming tonight.

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Nice to have a Thursday night
crowd here at the Poetry Center.

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My name is Tyler.

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I work here as the director.

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I want to just say a
couple of quick thank yous

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and keep you in the loop
about a couple of things

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and give you a quick
update about this reading

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before we jump right
into the reading itself.

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I want to give a big
thanks to the Borchard

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Center on the Literary Arts
and their work building

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camaraderie through cohorts of
writers from Canada, the United

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States, and Mexico.

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This center has helped
provide some funding

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to the Poetry Center for
readings and our reading series.

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So we're really
grateful for that.

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And more broadly, that work
is about building bigger

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connections from
writers from those three

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countries in a
more compelling way

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and building bridges
between them.

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So we're grateful to Michael
Spurgeon for that support

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from the Borchard Center.

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And it's helped enable
Natalia's participation tonight.

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Natalia is not in the
room with us tonight,

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but is in the room
with us tonight.

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There was a visa issue.

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And so she was not able
to travel to be with us.

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So she's going to Zoom in for
the reading from Mexico City.

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And we tested this
yesterday, and it worked.

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And we're really
excited about this.

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So I think Natalia
can hear us right now.

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So bienvenidos, Natalia.

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We're glad you're here,
and we're looking forward

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to this reading.

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There she is.

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Hola, Natalia.

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So we'll see you soon.

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We're going to bring
you in very soon.

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Yeah.

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This reading is
also, of course--

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this evening is our annual
Hannelore Quander-Rattee

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Reading, a reading
that annually features

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writers working in translation.

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We've had the privilege of
being able to host this reading

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for the past nine years--

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10 years here at
the Poetry Center.

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The named reading is supported
by a gift in Hannelore's memory.

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Hannelore was the managing
editor of Prickly Pear Tucson,

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a poetry quarterly.

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She co-directed the
Mosaic reading series

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and served on the Tucson
Poetry Festival committee

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among many other things.

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She was sort of a large
actor in Poetry Center

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and the poetry
community in Tucson.

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She wrote her own poems, and
she translated extensively,

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especially from the work--
from work from German.

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She was fond of the
work of Günter Eich

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and her translation
of his radio play

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was produced by
Arizona Public Radio.

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She also worked to translate
the poems of Heinrich Böll.

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So it's an honor to do
this reading each year,

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year in and year out
in Hannelore's name

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and in celebration of the work
that translators make possible

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every day by their work.

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Now, there's a couple
of upcoming events

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at the Poetry Center
that I'm going

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to keep you in the loop about.

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So one is an event that's
not on our print calendar,

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but is on our website, and
that's happening next Tuesday

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here at the Poetry Center.

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You may know that there are
six new poetry-inspired murals

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on Speedway Boulevard
and through the campus

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corridor of Speedway.

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And so on the Tuesday, the 23rd
at 5:00 o'clock, we're going

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to have a walking or rolling
tour of those murals.

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If you're interested,
there will be ice cream

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and there will also
be a vegan option.

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So if you're interested in ice
cream, vegan options for ice

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cream or murals,
this is your night.

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And so the whole route is
just under a mile in total.

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It should be a lovely night.

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And we're excited to
share those with everyone

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and talk about
them a little bit.

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Many of the muralists will
be here to talk briefly about

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that work and some of
the participating poets

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will be here as well.

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They're really beautiful.

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And then the next reading in the
reading series will be on May 2.

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And it's an alum reading
from the MFA program.

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We're thrilled about that.

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It's going to feature four
writers, two of whom are poets.

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So Gabriel Dozal, Gabriel
Palacios, and Maddie Norris,

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and Margo Steines will all
be here sharing their work,

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and we're really
looking forward to it.

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Gabriel Dozal is right
here, so come back for that.

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That's May 2 back here
at the Poetry Center,

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7:00 o'clock in the States.

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We are incredibly excited to
have a reading tonight that

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will happen in three languages.

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You're going to hear Spanish,
Zapotec, and English,

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and it's been a
season of languages

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at the Poetry
Center more broadly.

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If you haven't had a chance
to explore the exhibit that's

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up in the Poetry
Center right now,

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it's called, Where
Clouds are Formed,

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and it's a collaboration
also across languages

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and across cultures
and across peoples.

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It features the
Borderlands region.

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And it features work that's
translated into Spanish, Tohono

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O'odham, and English as well,
and come and visit that exhibit

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and spend some time with that.

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It's the exhibit that's
recently launched and will

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be up through August here
at the Poetry Center.

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And then the other
part of that exhibit

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that's totally separate
with other work

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but connected in the
total exhibit's footprint

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is at the Center for
Creative Photography.

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So you can see it
in both places.

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Books are for sale afterwards.

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So I want you to avail
yourself of those.

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They're over here on my right.

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If you've got extra
dollars in your pockets,

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that's a great
place to spend them.

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I also want to note that
we're collaborating tonight

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with the Tucson Agave
Heritage Festival, which

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is happening in Tucson.

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It's launching even right now,
continues through the weekend.

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So if you take one of
our print calendars

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and you're so
inclined afterwards

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to go after the reading to
Bar Crisol, 196 West Simpson,

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you can get half off your
first pour of a mezcal tasting,

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that two companies are
going to be serving there.

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So those calendars are up here.

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We want you to have those.

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You'll get all the
information you

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need about the May 2 reading,
and you'll get half off.

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It's a great deal.

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Those are right here.

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It's my real
pleasure and deep joy

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to welcome up a colleague and
collaborator, Paola Valenzuela.

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If you've enjoyed readings that
have happened here at the Poetry

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Center, you can
be assured that it

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is because of Paola's creativity
and her diligence and her work

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as the event and
development coordinator

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here at the Poetry Center.

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Please help me welcome
her up to the podium

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to tell you a little bit more
about our readers tonight.

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Welcome, Paola.

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[CLAPPING]