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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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A little more.

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Yeah.

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Good.

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Thanks for doing that for me.

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I appreciate it.

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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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Thanks for coming out
on a Thursday night

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and enjoying a cooler evening
with a lot of other people

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that are enjoying
a cooler evening,

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which you've all earned,
if you've been in Tucson.

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So kudos to you.

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I have just a couple of things
I want to say really quickly.

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One is if you've seen these
delightful things on your seats,

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these are broadsides
by our readers

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tonight made by New Michigan
Press and Ander Monson.

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He'll probably say more about
these when he's up here.

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These are yours to take.

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And they're beautiful,
so enjoy these.

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Display them proudly on
your fridge, your kitchen,

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your living room, other places.

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They're yours to keep.

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And if you didn't
get some, there

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are some that are
around on other seats,

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or there's a Breezeway
table out here

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that has some extras as well.

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And so we want to make sure
you guys take care of those

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and grab those.

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We're working on an update to
the sale machine for the books.

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And that I think
is going to happen.

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We're all going to manifest
that it's going to happen.

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Send good energy that way.

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And so books are going to be
for sale after the reading.

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And I know the writers
would be excited to sign

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those books for you after
the reading as well.

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We're grateful to have Josh
Riedel and Thomas Dai back

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with us here in Tucson.

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Alums of the MFA program.

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Put your hands together
for them and their return

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back to this place,
which I think

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they have probably
not read in since they

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were graduate students.

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So it's exciting to have them
back here in this version

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of their lives with
their beautiful books,

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which they're traveling behind.

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I just have three quick
things I want to say,

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and then I will
get out of the way.

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And that is some stuff that's
upcoming at the Poetry Center.

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So our next reading that's here
with the Center on October 9,

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features Richard Siken
and Mathias Svalina.

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Richard Siken, a local
Tucson poet, his book

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is up for the National
Book Award this year.

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Hope you'll come out for
that, especially Mathias

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tremendous, delightful,
expansive poet.

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Both great.

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And we're excited to have
them both here on October 9, 7

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o'clock back in this space.

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Mathias will be here all
month and does some public art

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projects with poetry as
part of his practice.

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And so part of
that is delivering

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dreams, where he literally
writes dreams for people

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and delivers them to
your house, and he

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takes on subscribers
where he does that.

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You can learn more
about that soon

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on the Poetry Center's
website, if you

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might like to sign up to receive
dreams for a period of time,

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while Mathias is here.

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They come in little
pink envelopes.

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Truly, every day, there's a
dream for you, just for you

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from him.

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He also does dream
history tours of places

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where he imagines a history
that's based on the real one,

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but that includes dream
logic and dream thinking.

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And so there's two
of those that are

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going to happen at the
end of the month as well.

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So you can find out about
that in our calendar.

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These are available
on the table that

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is outside in the
breezeway, also

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next to the extras
of the broadsides.

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So if you to learn more
about that that's here.

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After that, on
October 23, which will

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be the time when I promise that
these construction fences will

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not be here anymore, and it'll
just be a beautiful garden

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space to my right.

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How many of you have dealt
with urban frustrated

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by construction in that area?

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Yeah.

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Me, too.

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Especially, me.

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I can commiserate with you.

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That'll be better.

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And it's going to be a beautiful
space for people to hang out,

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gather where events can happen.

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And it will be
done by October 15.

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So when you come back on
the 23rd to hear Tracy K.

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Smith at the Poetry Center,
she'll be reading nearby here

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at a venue called HSIB, which
is just a five-minute walk away

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from the Poetry Center.

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Those details are in
this calendar as well.

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That event on the 23rd is
following the Siken and Svalina

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event on the ninth.

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And then the last
event of the month

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that we're really excited about
features colleagues in the MFA

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program, faculty members
Susan Briante and Farid

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Matuk and their new books,
which we're thrilled about.

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Put your hands together
for these folks.

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[APPLAUSE]

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We'll be in this space
for that reading.

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And that's at 7
o'clock on Thursday.

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So lots of great things
coming up in October,

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including the end
of construction.

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We hope to see you
back for those events.

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I want to welcome up my great
friend and colleague, Paco

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Cantu, who also is a faculty
member in the MFA program.

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He'll talk a little bit
more about the program

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and the distinguished
visitor writer series,

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which you are here for tonight.

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Please help me welcome Paco.

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[APPLAUSE]