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Hello, everybody.

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Welcome.

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How are you all?

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Good.

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Happy Thursday.

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Glad you guys are here.

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You're making an
excellent choice

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on a Thursday night
for translation.

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And I'm glad you're here.

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Welcome to the Poetry Center.

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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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You are here.

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How many are-- well, how many of
you have been to other readings

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this spring at
the Poetry Center?

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Good work.

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OK, excellent.

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If you haven't, it's OK.

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But there'll be more chances
for you, but not this season.

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This is our last visit from a
visiting writer in the spring.

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So round of applause
for a lot of good things

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that have happened this
spring at the Poetry Center.

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[APPLAUSE]

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This, of course,
is a team effort.

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And a lot of people work on it.

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And so I will ask
you to applaud again

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for Bruno Ingram, who
does all the work to make

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the readings sound good and
look good and record well,

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and we're really
grateful for it.

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Bruno, thank you
for all that you do.

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It's a great gift.

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We love working with you.

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And then likewise, one
more big round of applause

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for my colleague, Paola
Valenzuela, who's right here.

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Will you wave.

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[LAUGHS]

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Paola is amazing.

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And the visits that happened
at the Poetry Center

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are largely possible because
Paola has done a ton of work

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making sure writers
get here safely,

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that they have a good
time while they're here,

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that they get home safely,
among many other things

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that Paola does.

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So it's a great gift to
work with Paola every day.

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And it's a joy and
looking forward

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to all that comes up ahead.

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This reading tonight
is a collaboration

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with the Creative Writing
program at the University

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of Arizona, and we're really
pleased to be in partnership

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with them in all the
ways that we are,

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and for their support of what
happens at the Poetry Center.

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And we'll hear from my colleague
Manuel Muñoz in a little bit

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more about that.

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We also want to thank the
Borchard Center on the Literary

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Arts for their support of
this reading and for all

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that they do for the
literary arts in general,

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which is a great gift as well.

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So just a couple of
things to tell you about.

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Again, this is our last
visit from a visiting writer,

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but it is not the last thing
that's happening at the Poetry

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Center this season.

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So on Saturday, the
3rd, this Saturday,

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there's a reading here at
the Poetry Center at noon.

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And that's from our Classes
and Workshops program.

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And those are for people
that have participated

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in that program and
the faculty that

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have taught in that program.

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And you can hear from
students, and they'll

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read from their work.

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That's back here at noon
on Saturday, the 3rd.

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On the 10th, a week
later on Saturday,

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we'll be back here again for the
graduation reading for the MFA

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program.

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And so this is a chance
to hear from the writers

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that we'll be hearing
from in the next decades.

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And you can hear
them here first.

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So they'll be reading
from their theses.

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You can help celebrate
them and the work

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that they've done
and the program here.

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That's 10:00-- I'm sorry, May 10
at noon back here at the Poetry

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Center.

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And everyone is welcome.

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And then the last
event of the season

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before a little bit of
time, we'll be closed.

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And I'll talk about in
a moment is on May 17.

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And that's our annual anthology
launch for the citywide Youth

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Anthologies that our K
through 12 programs create.

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If you've ever seen
these, they're amazing.

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It's a beautiful book,
where each student who

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participates in those
programs gets to publish

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one poem in an anthology.

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We have a book launch
here at the center.

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They come up here and
read from their work,

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just like all the other
poets who come through town.

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And it's been a great gift
to have that program happen.

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This year, we were in
33 different classrooms.

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And each of those
classrooms had a chance

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to have a visiting teaching
artist for eight weeks.

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And each of the students
gets to choose the work that

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will be in the book.

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So if you're interested
in that kind of thing

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or want to have a delightful
experience in general

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in the middle of May, come back.

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That's at 9:00
o'clock on the 17th,

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back here at the Poetry Center.

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Immediately after
that, we're going

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to be closed for a little while.

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And if you haven't
heard this message yet,

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we're excited
about this project.

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To my right outside
of the Poetry Center,

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there is a very ugly
alley, that is going away

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and is going to be replaced
with a park-like space

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and a whole new outdoors area.

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And so that will
begin on May 20.

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And that work will proceed
throughout the summer.

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The Poetry Center will be closed
for the end of May, all of June

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and the beginning of July.

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We're going to reopen
to the public on July 8.

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Construction will
keep happening,

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but it will be the quieter
parts of construction.

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So while it's
loudest and dustiest,

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we're going to take a break and
then come back in the summer.

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We're looking forward to
seeing you then and then

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looking forward to welcoming
everyone back in the fall

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to a really beautiful new
space that will open up

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a lot of new possibilities
for how work happens here

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at the Poetry Center.

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So that is a quick list of
everything that's coming up.

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There's some great summer
programs that are happening.

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Our calendar is going to
be coming to your mailboxes

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very soon.

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That information is going
to be on our website

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and in our newsletter
soon as well.

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And hope you'll take advantage
of some of those programs, too.

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To help welcome Natasha
Wimmer, who we're so happy

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is here visiting us in
Tucson, an amazing translator,

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who does an incredible work.

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I want to welcome up
my colleague Manuel

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Muñoz to introduce Natasha.

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Manuel has helped
organize this event.

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He's the author
of the novel, What

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You See in the Dark, and the
story collections, Zigzagger

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and The Faith Healer
of Olive Avenue.

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And these three
earlier works are

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being reprinted by
Triquarterly Books, which

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is an imprint of Northwestern
University Press, which

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is awesome and deserves
its own round of applause.

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[APPLAUSE]

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His most recent
collection of stories

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is called The Consequences,
and it is an amazing book.

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Please help me welcome my
colleague, Manuel Muñoz.

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[APPLAUSE]

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Thank you.

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