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Hey, everybody.

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How are you doing?

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Good.

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So my name is Tyler.

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I work as the director
at the Poetry Center,

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and I just want to shine
some of that bright light

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back on Laura and
the MOCA staff.

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It's amazing to have a
museum of contemporary art

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that's so interested
in poets and poetry

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and what we can do with textual
forms that can become visual,

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that can become experiences.

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And it's a great gift to be
able to collaborate around

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these kinds of things in Tucson.

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So it's a richness
that we share.

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And thanks for
celebrating that richness

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by coming out
tonight and seeing--

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hopefully becoming
a member or coming

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to join us and hang out and see
what's going on at the Poetry

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Center or do both
because you're alive

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and you should do
as much as you can.

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This calendar tells
you a little bit

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about what's going on
at the Poetry Center.

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If you're interested in other
events or other readings

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that are happening, and
there's some on the table.

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Where books are for sale
on the far side over here.

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So we have colleagues
from the U of A bookstore,

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and this calendar
is there too, so you

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can grab some of
CA's work and then

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also pick up events that are
happening at the Poetry Center.

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We have an event next week with
the poet Mary Ruefle at 7:00

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at the Poetry Center.

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I hope some of you might
want to come for that.

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So a huge thanks again
to all the people

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who have worked on this.

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I will also point
out, in addition

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to the books that are
for sale on the far side,

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there's another station
of books for sale

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here with a magical
book that has just

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arrived from Europe, which
is the chapbook that's

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associated with the exhibit
that's installed here at MOCA.

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It's made by an artist
named Jason Dodge.

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The book is called First Light.

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It's CA's work.

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And they're for sale
here for $10 each.

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And that is Venmo or
exact change appreciated.

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So come see us.

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And there's only
so many of them.

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So if you're
interested in that, you

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can come check those
out while you're also

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buying the other books too.

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I want to introduce a
friend and a colleague

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and a great collaborator
and partner,

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TC Tolbert, who's going to
come introduce CAConrad.

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How many know TC Tolbert?

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[CHEERING]

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Yeah.

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Good work.

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If you don't,
tonight's your night.

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And how lucky are you.

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You get to know
this amazing person.

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TC Tolbert's the
author most recently

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of the chapbook, The Quiet
Practices, which was this--

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or the 2023 title for the
Chad Walsh Chapbook Series

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from Beloit Poetry Journal.

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TC is a trans and gender
queer monkey goat,

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for real, who never
ceases to experience

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a simultaneous grief and
deep love anytime she/he

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pays attention to the world.

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She/he writes poems,
works with wood,

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learns, teaches and wanders.

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Sometimes that
involves snorkeling.

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I've worked wood with TC.

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They're an amazing woodworker.

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In 2019, TC was awarded an
Academy of American Poets

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Laureate Fellowship for the
work with trans, non-binary,

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non-binary and queer folks.

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Publications
include Gephyromania

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from Ahsahta Press
in 2014 that's

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been rereleased by Nightboat
Books more recently

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and five additional chapbooks.

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TC is also co-editor
along with Trace Peterson

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of Troubling the Line: Trans and
Genderqueer Poetry and Poetics

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from Nightboat Books.

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Amazing texts, all of these.

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TC lives in Tucson with us.

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We're very lucky.

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Please help me
welcome TC Tolbert.

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[CHEERING]