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Hello, everybody.

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Welcome.

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How is everybody?

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OK.

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Can you hear me OK?

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Yeah?

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Great.

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Great choice on
a Thursday night.

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I'm proud of all of you.

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You're doing good work by being
at a poetry reading, especially

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this one with the poet
that I love very much,

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Kimberly Blaeser.

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So round of applause to
welcome Kimberly to Tucson.

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[APPLAUSE]

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And then more work to
introduce Kimberly very soon.

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My name is Tyler Meier.

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I work as the director
here at the Poetry Center

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with an amazing crew of folks
that all work energetically

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to do all the things that
the Poetry Center does.

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I have a couple of
quick announcements

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before we get going.

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I want to mention some
things that are coming up

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at the Poetry Center soon.

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So our next reading
at the Poetry Center

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will be February 13 with
the poet Terrance Hayes.

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And that'll be
back in this space.

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I think that the
weather will cooperate,

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and it will be warm again.

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And so maybe one less
jacket will be required.

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But that's back
here on the 13th.

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That's at 7 o'clock.

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And then on February
20, we have a poet

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named Niki Herd, who
spent time in Tucson.

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And we're really excited
to welcome Niki back.

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She has a terrific new book
called The Stuff of Hollywood

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that we're really,
really excited about.

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After that, we have our spring
poet in residence is the poet

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Divya Victor.

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And Divya will be
here for a week plus

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and be reading on March 6.

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So we hope you'll take
advantage of those.

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If you don't want to
remember everything

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that I've just said, even
though I expect you to,

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this document will also
help you because it

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has all that information on it.

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And there's more of this
material around the corner.

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I hope you'll grab one of these,
and you'll be in the loop,

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or you can always check
poetry.arizona.edu to know

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about what's coming up.

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This is a special night for
us at the Poetry Center also.

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This is our Tom Sanders
Memorial Reading.

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How many people here
knew Tom Sanders?

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Yeah.

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Quite a few of you.

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OK.

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Very good.

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Tom was a great friend of
poetry and a great friend

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of the Poetry Center.

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And we offer this reading
annually in memory

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of Tom's interest
and love of poetry

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and of the University
of Arizona, especially.

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And so the reading is
designed in Tom's memory

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to honor a poet with
a great connection

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to the University of Arizona.

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And we're really thrilled
that Kimberly is here tonight.

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Her most recent
book, Ancient Light,

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is published by the
University of Arizona Press.

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I'm sure we're going to hear
some from that book tonight.

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So we're really thrilled to
be doing this reading in Tom's

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memory, and in connected in
these ways to the university's

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work more broadly.

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And kudos to the University
of Arizona Press, which makes

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amazing books all the time.

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And so we're really
thrilled about that.

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And some Press folks are here.

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So thank you.

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This is also a partnership
with Amerind Museum.

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How many have you been to
Amerind Museum in Dragoon?

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Good work, everybody.

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Good.

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If you didn't raise your hand,
look at the people who did

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and be slightly jealous of them.

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But you can fix it.

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And so I'm going to
introduce someone now

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who can help you fix it.

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And this is the president,
CEO, and chief curator

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at Amerind Museum.

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It's in Dragoon, Arizona, in
the Eastern part of the state.

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It's been an incredible partner.

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Amerind has been an incredible
partner for the Poetry Center.

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And we're very thrilled
to be thinking with them

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about collaborative
possibilities

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at the Poetry Center and
connection to the work

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that they do at
the museum as well.

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And we're grateful for
their support tonight

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of this particular reading.

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Thank you to Kelly Holt,
who's done a ton of work

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organizing and connecting us.

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But I want to welcome
up Eric Kaldahl, who's

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going to tell us a little
bit more about Amerind.

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Thank you.

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[APPLAUSE]