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Hey, everybody.

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How are you all?

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[CHEERING]

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All right!

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Thursday, people standing.

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Come find seats.

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There's lots in front up here,
and there's more in the back.

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Glad everybody's here.

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You're making good
choices on a Thursday.

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How many of you are about to
finish school for the year?

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Congrats to you.

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[APPLAUSE]

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Good work with the excitement.

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We're really thrilled
about this reading

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and excited to
have a crowd here.

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This is a 4 by 4 MFA reading.

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So four readers from the
University of Arizona MFA

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program who have graduated
from that program,

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have gone on to do other things.

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All have new books.

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We'll hear more about all
of that very, very soon.

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We're thrilled that
this is happening

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and thrilled that, welcome
these writers back to the Poetry

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Center to do a reading tonight.

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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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I'll just say a couple
of quick updates,

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and then we'll jump
right into this reading

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and hear from these folks.

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There's one more reading
in our list for the season.

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So it's been a
beautiful spring season

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with a ton of really
amazing readings.

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There's one more to come.

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That's on the 11th of May.

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So it's a Saturday.

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It happens at noon, and it's for
the participants in our classes

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and workshops program.

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So people who have taken
classes at the Poetry Center all

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have a chance to read.

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And that will happen here at
the Poetry Center on the 11th

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at noon.

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And we're welcome to
come back to that.

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We'd love to see you.

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Sooner than that, on Saturday
the 4th, as in two days away,

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at 9 o'clock there is a docent
organized tour of the haikus

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that are posted in
Downtown Tucson.

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So you might know
about this contest

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that the Downtown
Tucson partnership runs,

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where they ask for haiku on
a particular theme related

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to the desert or to Tucson.

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And so there were 20 winners
this year out of 2000 haiku.

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They placed them all into
planters in Downtown Tucson

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throughout the spring season.

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So there'll be a
walk or if you like,

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a hike, a haiku hike,
as they call it.

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Of those, it's about a mile.

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It should be really beautiful.

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9:00 AM on Saturday, there's
going to be that walk,

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led by our docents.

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If you're interested
in doing that,

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you can meet in the lobby
of Hotel Congress at 9:00,

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and then they'll
depart from there.

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So it should be a
lot of fun, a chance

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to be in beautiful downtown
before it gets too, too hot.

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Come join us for that.

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So that's the fourth.

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There's the reading on the 11th.

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Next up, and I'm excited
to tell you all about this.

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This is an event
that's been added.

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It's our first summer
social of the season.

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So on Wednesday the 15th of May,
we'll be moving to the Century

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Room at Hotel Congress.

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And there'll be a book
launch for the writer

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Karen Brennan, who has a new
book of stories coming out

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called Rabbit in the Moon,
published by Schaffner Press,

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a publisher here in Tucson.

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That will be at 5 o'clock
on Wednesday the 15th,

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and again in the Century Room.

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It's a free reading.

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There'll be free snacks, which
you can avail ourselves of.

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And then the bar
will be doing what

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the bar does, if you're
interested in those things

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as well.

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So those are all coming up.

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You can learn about all of those
on the Poetry Center website,

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poetry.arizona.edu.

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There are some books for sale.

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So some of the books are for
sale over here on my right.

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Some of them are for sale
right here on my other right.

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And then around
the corner outside,

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I also just want to mention
there are some free books.

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So the books for sale are
from the readers tonight.

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Please come and spend
your money on those.

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They're all beautiful books.

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These are, I think, first books
for each of the writers tonight,

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and we're really
excited to support them.

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Let's buy them all up and send
them home with empty boxes.

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The free books that
are around the corner

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are gifts from the
Lannan Foundation, which

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is a organization that
supported literature

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for a long, long time.

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And they're winding down
their work as a foundation.

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These are two chapbooks that
they had many extras of,

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and so they sent some here to
share with audiences in Tucson.

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One is a chapbook of the
poet Mahmoud Darwish,

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and one is a chapbook of
the poet Adrienne Rich.

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And so those are right around
the corner in the breezeway.

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We hope you'll take some
of those home with you

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as well after you buy the
other books that you're here,

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in that order.

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And then the last thing I just
want to say really quickly

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is that we'll shift
to our summer hours

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here at the Poetry Center
as the semester ends.

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So we'll be closed on Saturdays.

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We'll be open from Tuesday
through Friday from 9:00

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to 5:00, and that
begins on the 11th.

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So the 11th of May, it's the
first day that we're closed.

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And we'll be closed on
Saturdays throughout the summer

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until the end of
August, when the school

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year starts back up again.

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Hope you'll come visit us
and enjoy the great

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air conditioning and the
many, many poetry books

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as you're able.

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It's a great pleasure to welcome
up a friend and a colleague who

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will do the
introductions tonight

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for the readers, the
professor Ander Monson.

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Please give him a warm welcome.

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And he's got a lot
in store for us.

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[APPLAUSE]