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How is everybody doing?

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Great.

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Great.

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Happy Thursday.

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Welcome to the Poetry Center.

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Glad everybody's
choosing to be here.

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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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and it's a thrill
that you're choosing

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poetry on a Thursday
night in Tucson,

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which you get to do a lot.

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But I'm glad you're
doing it tonight.

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So thanks for coming.

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We are thrilled to
welcome back to Tucson,

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a great friend of the Poetry
Center, Mark Wunderlich.

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So round of applause
for Mark's return.

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[APPLAUSE]

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A prodigal feeling
in this moment.

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Mark was an interim director of
the Poetry Center in the '90s--

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'95 and '96-- and so knows
Tucson very well from that time

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and has a lot of memories.

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Many people in the audience
may know Mark from that time.

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And so it's a true
delight to have him back.

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His poetry is wonderful,
and it's a thrill

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that the Poetry Center can
bring Mark back in this moment.

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So thanks for helping me
welcome him here tonight.

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I would like to tell you about
a couple of upcoming events,

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just to keep
everybody in the loop.

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Our next event as the Poetry
Center will be next week,

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and it's a collaboration
with MOCA Tucson--

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so our museum of
contemporary art.

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And it will feature an exhibit
from the poet CAConrad, who's

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traveling to Tucson,
who I think is actually

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arriving in Tucson now.

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And so that event will be
on Thursday of next week,

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but it will be at MOCA Tucson.

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And the start time will be
one hour earlier at 6:00 PM.

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So CA will read from their work.

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There's an exhibit that's
connected to this visit called

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"500 Places at Once," and a new
chapbook that's being launched

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as part of that.

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So that's all next
week, starting

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on Thursday, 6 o'clock, MOCA.

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It's a free night for MOCA.

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So they have an extended evening
for folks that might want

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to spend more time there, see
the other exhibits that are

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there as well, and a chance to
see the exhibit that's connected

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to that exhibit next
Thursday, the 19th.

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Then the following
week on the 26,

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we're back here at the
Poetry Center at 7 o'clock.

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And we're really
excited to have a return

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visit from the poet Mary
Ruefle, who'll be visiting.

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Her exhibit is here
at the Poetry Center,

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and we'll open up next week
here at the Poetry Center.

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It is incredible.

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And it features her practice
of creating erasures from

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found texts that she
collects, so books, ephemera,

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other items,
materials, detritus,

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things that are amazing
what she does with them.

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She treats these texts that
she collects, creates erasures

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or other found texts
from within them.

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The exhibit will delight you.

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It will stun you.

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It will make you laugh.

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It's beautiful.

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And that will be open next week.

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And her reading
will be on the 26th.

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And again, we're very
excited about that.

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That's 7 o'clock back
here at the Poetry Center.

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My notes say, "to be excited."

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Please be excited.

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We're excited.

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There are ever so few spaces
remaining in Poetry Center

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classes and workshops
this semester,

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including a few seats in an
upcoming class with the poet

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Cynthia Hogue, who's a really
terrific poet, critic, scholar,

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translator, had a 30-year-long
career at ASU as the Marshall

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Chair there.

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And she's teaching a class
called "What is Mythopoesis?"

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And that's a class if you're
interested in learning

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about how to handle material
that is too close or even maybe

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too hot.

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How do you handle those
materials in writing?

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And this is a class that will
help you think about that.

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So if that's something
you're interested in,

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there's some spaces in
that class and many others

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that remain in the
Poetry Center's calendar.

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You can find out more
about that on our website

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or in our calendar of events,
which looks attractively

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like this square.

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And there's lots of these
that are up here over here

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on my right.

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Books are for sale tonight after
the reading, as well as some

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broadsides that Marcus
brought with him.

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So if you're
interested in books,

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it's a little bit farther.

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If you're interested
in broadsides,

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it's a little bit closer.

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Broadsides are 10.

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There's one that's being held up
that's delightful and shimmering

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in the light.

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And so there's limited
numbers of those.

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And books are for sale as well.

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Please come bring
all the dollars

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you brought with you and
avail yourselves of both

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of those things.

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If you happen to
have extra dollars,

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I will point out
this feature that's

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on the inside of the calendar,
which is a donation envelope.

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So the Poetry Center, of
course, runs on the support

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of the community.

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So if you're interested in
what's happening in the reading

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series, if you enjoy
the reading series,

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if you enjoy what's
happening in our K

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through 12 programs,
our classes,

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if you enjoy the
collection and the books

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and the work that happens there,
all of that is funded by donor

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support, by support
from people who

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choose to make a gift
to the Poetry Center.

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So I hope if you're
interested in that,

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you'll take this envelope and
consider what to put inside it

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and send it back to us.

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I do want to plug our
Whitman Circle, which

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is a giving level of support.

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This is an important support
level for the Poetry Center.

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And if that's the
right fit for you,

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we'd love to tell
you more about that.

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Come speak with me
after the reading.

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You can learn more about it from
the materials that are up here.

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You get invited to receptions
with poets and other perks that

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come with that support.

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So happy to talk
more about that.

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And thank you in
advance for all that you

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do for the Poetry Center.

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This is enough for me.

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So I'm going to welcome up my
friend and colleague, Susan

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Briante, a poet
and essayist here

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at the University of
Arizona and Professor

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of English and Creative Writing.

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She's the author of the
award-winning nonfiction book,

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Defacing the Monument.

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Terrific book.

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Read that book.

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And this next summer, in August,
will be her Selected Poems

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published by Noemi Press, which
we're really excited about

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and looking forward to.

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So please help me
welcome Susan Briante

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to introduce Mark Wunderlich.

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[APPLAUSE]