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[APPLAUSE]

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Ladies and gentlemen,
some poets retrieve

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the past and some poets
characterize the present.

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And in the process of
either, the audience

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has an opportunity to observe,
or participate, or judge.

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Every once in a
while, or perhaps

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once in a generation
of writers, there

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is a poet intrigued
with the future,

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with its composition, and its
magic, and in our own time,

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with its very survival.

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I believe this writing touches
and changes those who hear it,

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which makes it wondrous
and, more specifically,

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highly political insofar
as it acts radically

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on the lives of people.

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To voice the future
involves a language

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that is both
rudimentary and unknown.

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It has to sound
familiar and strange.

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It has to sound personal and
prophetic, human and godlike.

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Its emotional and
spiritual heart

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must speak to us of
objects and of acts

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but also must speak
to us of dreams.

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Tonight, we will hear
just such a poet,

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whose vision extends
out into the farthest

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reaches of the imagination.

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Hear now the elegant
poems of someone

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I met long ago and far away
in just such a place, someone

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I now have the honor
of introducing to you.

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Ladies and gentlemen,
please join me

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in welcoming the
poet Barbara Cully.

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[APPLUASE]

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Thank you, Jane.