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Hello, everybody.

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How you doing?

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OK?

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Yeah.

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[CHEERING]

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It's so nice to be here with
you on this beautiful November

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evening in Tucson.

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I'm scanning the crowd,
and it's like a commercial

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for down jackets, which
means we're in Tucson,

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and it's a little chilly.

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But I'm glad you guys are here.

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Thanks for coming to be warmed
up by what this will be.

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And we're really excited to
have this crowd here tonight

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on a Thursday night at
the Poetry Center in April

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in National Poetry Month,
which we can applaud--

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[APPLAUSE]

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--for two terrific
poets that have

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been heartbeats of what
poetry has been in this state

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for a long time.

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And so it's a great gift to be
able to present both of them

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together tonight, here in
Tucson at the Poetry Center.

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They're both great
friends, so it's a delight

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from that perspective.

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But their work
extends far beyond,

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in ways that we're thrilled
to be presenting here

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at the Poetry Center.

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So we'll introduce them shortly.

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But round of applause and
welcome to Alison Deming

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and Sally Ball.

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[APPLAUSE]

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If we haven't met,
my name is Tyler.

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I work as the director
here at the Poetry Center.

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I'm glad you're here.

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I want to tell you about some
things that are coming up

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at the Poetry Center
after this program,

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so you can have
them on your radar,

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be thinking about
coming back to see us.

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It will probably be warmer for
all of these, just so you know.

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On April 10, the
next reading that's

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happening in the Poetry Center
is with the poet Robert Pinsky,

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former US poet laureate.

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We're thrilled that
that's happening.

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So that's back here at 7
o'clock on April 10, here

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at the Poetry Center.

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On the 19th, if there are
small humans in your life,

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children ages 0
to 10 or even 12,

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we have a program
called Kids Create,

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that we do every semester.

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This Kids Create is on April 19.

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It's a Saturday.

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It'll be from 10:00 to noon.

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There's writing
workshops, there's music,

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there's snacks, all the
good things that one

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needs to have a good time.

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Writing, music, snacks,
that's a good time.

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So that's happening from 10:00
to noon here at the Poetry

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Center.

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It becomes a kid-centric space.

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The library gets turned over
to the kids that are here.

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We're really excited about that.

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Hope you might
come back for that

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if there are such humans in your
life, children, grandchildren,

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nieces, nephews, et cetera.

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Then on May 1, we have one of
our last readings in the series,

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and that's with the
translator, Natasha Wimmer.

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And we're really
excited about this.

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How many people
know Natasha Wimmer.

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You're in for a good look.

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Please come.

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You're going to be excited.

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So Natasha is a great translator
from the Spanish, translates

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fiction.

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This is one of the
collaboration with the MFA

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program and their Distinguished
Visiting Writers Series.

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And so, Natasha has translated
the Nobel laureate, Mario Vargas

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Llosa.

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She's translated the Chilean
novelist, Roberto Bolaño,

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and then most recently,
the Mexican novelist Álvaro

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Enrigue's book, You
Dreamed Of Empires,

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which was a 2024 New York Times
10 best books of the year.

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We're really thrilled
that she'll be here.

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That will likely be a
somewhat bilingual reading.

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And we're so excited for
Natasha's presence in Tucson,

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and for her practice
as one of the leading

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translators in the country.

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We do have some books
for sale this evening,

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but we don't have all of them.

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And this is a regret.

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An error was made in getting
Sally's books here on time.

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So we want to make
sure that you know

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that there'll be book
sales afterwards,

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if you're interested
in that work.

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Sally's books are on the QR
codes that are right here,

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and then other
books are for sale

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over on the table on my right.

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And I know that both
authors would love

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to speak with you afterwards.

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We're going to forego a Q
and A, but come up and talk

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to the poets after
we're done this evening.