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Hey, everybody.

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Welcome.

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How are you doing?

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Good.

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Happy Thursday.

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People are OK?

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Good work.

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You can hear me OK in the back?

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Good.

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OK, good.

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Thank you.

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My name is Tyler.

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I work as the director
at the Poetry Center.

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Thanks, everybody, for coming
out for a poetry reading

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tonight.

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We're thrilled to have
Niki Herd back in Tucson.

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A round of applause.

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[APPLAUSE]

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I'm sure she'll tell
you more about that,

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but it is exciting to
have Niki come back.

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to I'm going to
introduce Niki shortly,

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but I want to say
a couple of things

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at the beginning of the
reading to orient to tonight.

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And first, I just want to start
with some things that are coming

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up at the Poetry Center next.

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So our next reading
at the center

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is with the poet Divya
Victor, and she's

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going to be our spring
poet in residence.

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Her reading is going to be on
March 6 back here at the Poetry

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Center, and that's
going to be at 7:00.

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So hope to see you back for
that, behind her beautiful work

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and exciting work.

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So put that on your calendars,
if it's not already there.

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And if you need information
about those calendars

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and events, our
calendar of events,

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the paper copy is in the
breezeway on a table outside.

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You can grab one of
those to stay abreast

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of what's coming up,
and all of the info

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is at poetry.arizona.edu.

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After that, there's a thing
that happens in Tucson

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called the Festival of Books.

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And there's lots of great poets
that are coming this year,

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and so I hope you'll come to
that if you're interested.

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This is truly a great year
for poetry in the festival,

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so pay attention to
what's happening there.

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That's on March 15 and 16.

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More on the main
mall of the campus.

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But many good things happening.

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And then we will be
launching the Tucson

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launch of the anthology,
Like a Hammer:

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Poets on Mass Incarceration.

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And this is a book that's edited
by Diana Marie Delgado, who

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is no stranger to any
of us here in Tucson,

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and a former colleague
here at the Poetry Center.

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And that project collects work
from the Poetry Center's Art

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for Justice Project.

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So if you were able
to hear any of that

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work when poets
were commissioned

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to think about the intersection
of the crisis of incarceration

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in the country and the
imaginative life of language

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and where those two
things intersect.

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We had some amazing
poems that were read here

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as part of that project.

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Those have been brought
together for the anthology.

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The anthology comes out
shortly from Haymarket Books,

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I think on March 4, exactly.

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And so that Tucson launch
here will be on March 20,

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back at the Poetry Center.

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And three of the
poets in Diana--

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will be here to talk
about the project.

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Then back here at 7
o'clock, Thursday, the 20th,

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the poets are Sin
á Tes Souhaits,

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Vanessa Angélica Villarreal,
and Roque Raquel Salas Rivera,

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and Diana Marie Delgado.

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So come back for those,
lots of good stuff coming up

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at the Poetry Center and for
poetry in general in Tucson.

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I also really want to
make sure everybody

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knows about a different event
that's happening on March 8.

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And this will be a Saturday at
the Poetry Center at 11:00 AM.

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There's a few exciting
things happening that day,

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so we'll be celebrating the
acquisition of our 60,000th book

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at the Poetry Center.

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That's a big thing.

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[APPLAUSE]

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I think I've read
0.0000001 of those,

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but we're delighted
that they're all here.

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And I hope you are, too.

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And so we're thrilled
that work of collecting

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continues in earnest, and as
part of the Poetry Center's

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legacy.

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The book that will be the
60,000th book is called Rescuing

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Q. It's by a book artist
named Suzanne Moore.

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She'll be talking
about that project,

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both its artistic
and political import

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and the intentions behind it.

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It's a beautiful book.

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And so the day will be a
chance to check out that book,

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hear from Suzanne,
and learn about it.

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It will also be a
day, where we'll

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be celebrating one of the
most important volunteers

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in the Poetry Center's
history, Tony Luebbermann, who

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happens to be right up
here in the front row.

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[APPLAUSE]

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Tony has done just
about everything,

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and I'm worried he'll soon
be the executive director

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of the Poetry Center.

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But we'll be having
cake and lemonade,

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and we'll be announcing a new
space at the Poetry Center

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that we're going to be calling
the Tony Luebbermann Welcome

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Area.

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So that work with Tony, we're
so excited to celebrate the work

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with the 60,000th book.

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And we'll be
talking a little bit

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about the new
strategic direction

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at the Poetry Center,
which we're calling

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the belonging initiative.

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And we'll be thinking
a lot about how poetry

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can work as a force to build the
conditions for belonging more

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broadly in our own lives
and in the lives that we're

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making with each other in the
communities where we live.

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It's work that we're so excited
about here at the Poetry Center,

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and so we'll learn more
about that as well.

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That's all on Saturday,
March 8 at 11 o'clock

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here at the Poetry Center.

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And if you love
basketball, there

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is an important basketball
game after that.

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And we promise we'll
be done in time,

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we will be able to watch that.

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And if you don't
love basketball,

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don't worry, it'll all be OK.

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You'll just get cake.

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We're going to skip a
Q and A this evening,

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but there are books for sale.

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And I know Nikki's really
excited to sign books,

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if you might be interested
in purchasing one.

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And so after the reading,
you can look forward

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to that, if you're inclined.

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This reading tonight we offer
in memory of a poet named

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Morgan Lucas Schuldt.

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How many of you knew
Morgan Lucas Schuldt?

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You did.

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If you don't, I'm
going to encourage you,

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please read the work.

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There's amazing
poems from this poet.

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Two really amazing books, a
book called Eros and a book

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called Verge that are both
in the Poetry Center library.

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Morgan was a poet and a
publisher here in Tucson.

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Passed away in 2012
at the age of 33.

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In addition to
those books, there

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were many chapbooks
and poems that

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were published across
more than 30 journals,

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both in print and in online.

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He practiced a beautiful and
inventive poetry, and the legacy

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of that work, and his work
as an editor and as a mentor

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and as a friend
continues in Tucson.

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And so we offer this reading
tonight in his spirit

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and in his memory.

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And it's a joyful
thing for us to do so.

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And it's brought many
wonderful poets to Tucson.