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Hello.

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That's what happens
when I say hello.

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I can make things
disappear with my voice.

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How's everybody doing?

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Good.

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Good?

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Thank you for round of applause.

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Welcome to the Tucson Humanities
Festival signature program

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with Tracy K. Smith,
which deserves

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another round of applause.

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So thank you.

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[APPLAUSE]

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It's a big honor
to be here tonight.

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My name is Tyler, and I work
as the Executive Director

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at the Poetry Center
here on campus.

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When we have readings,
where we overfill our space,

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we move to this one.

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So you all win the
prize for finding

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where the reading was tonight.

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Thanks for finding
your way to this spot.

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We're glad you're here, and
we're glad you're here with us.

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I want to start by doing
some quick acknowledgments.

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The University of Arizona
College of Humanities

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puts on the Tucson Humanities
Festival each year,

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and this celebrates
National Arts and Humanities

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month every October.

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And this began in 2009
as Humanities Week.

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So each year, it's
grown and changed

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and become what it's become.

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This year, the theme, of
course, is "everywhere

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because the humanities
are everywhere."

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And in case you
weren't, so just check.

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You'll find it in your pocket.

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It's next to you.

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When you go home tonight, it'll
be next to you in the car.

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And you'll see it in your
house, on your fridge.

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And we're really excited
about that theme,

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and also by what it represents,
how the humanities show up

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in every part of life.

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And there's no part
that isn't touched

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by the kinds of questions
and the kinds of thinking

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that the humanities present,
even in poetry, which we'll

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hear about more in a moment.

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There's sponsors that make
the festival happen each year.

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And so we want to
thank those sponsors.

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And that includes the Arizona
Humanities, our State Humanities

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Council, which is persevering,
and round of applause for them

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for perseverance.

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[APPLAUSE]

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Bookmans Entertainment Exchange,
the Arizona Theater Company,

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KXCI, and the Health
Sciences have all

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been a part of the
festival this year.

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So round of applause
for all those folks.

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Thank you.

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[APPLAUSE]

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So the College of
Humanities is also

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a big reason why the
Poetry Center can exist.

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And if that's true, and it
is, then the other reason why

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we can exist is all of you.

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And so I thank all of you for
being the heart of our work,

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for supporting it when you
can with your presence,

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with your attention, with
dollars, if it's possible.

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And we promise to continue on
our side of the Poetry Center

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to be steady in our
work of bringing

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exceptional experiences with
one of the most exceptional art

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forms.

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Our next readings
at the Poetry Center

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include the U of A Creative
Writing Faculty, Farid Matuk

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and Susan Briante.

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And they're going to be reading
it on October 30 at 7 o'clock

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back at the Poetry Center.

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And then after that, we'll have
our Annual Works in Translation

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Reading with Karen Emmerich.

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And she translates
from the Greek,

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but also does a lot of
theoretical work around the art

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and act of translation.

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And she will be here
also as the keynote

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for the American Literary
Translators Association

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Conference.

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How many of you know about ALTA?

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Some of you do?

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OK, good.

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If you don't, here's a
quick thumbnail sketch.

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It's a conference that brings
basically everyone who's

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doing translation in the country
together for a conference.

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And this year it's in Tucson.

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So imagine 500 translators,
every kind of language,

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poems, stories moving in
and out of those languages,

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becoming more possible,
more available

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to more people
and more readers--

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that will all be happening,
November 6, 7, 8, 9.

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Karen's reading will be at
the Poetry Center on the 6th,

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and she'll also do the keynote
as part of the proceedings

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for the conference.

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So the 6th, that's at 7
o'clock at the Poetry Center.

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The 30th, that's at 7
o'clock at the Poetry Center.

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There are also two
wonderful tours

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that you can avail
yourselves of.

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And these are Dream
History Tours of Tucson,

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and they are offered by
the poet Mathias Svalina.

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And so if you had
a chance to see

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Mathias read earlier this month,
you know what you're in for.

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These tours, I promise, will be
like none other that you've had,

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and they're wonderful.

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And if you can, they're
sort of a hybrid

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of the real and imagined
tour of a place.

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And so one leaves this
Saturday from 11 o'clock

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at the Poetry Center.

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All you need to do is come.

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They're free.

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Good shoes are recommended.

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It's about a mile
and a half walk.

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Bring some water.

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Maybe bring a hat.

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And then on November 1, the
tour will leave from MOCA Tucson

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at 11:00 AM.

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And I hope you'll come.

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They're truly
wonderful experiences.

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So come and join us.

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We're going to skip a
question and answer tonight.

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But we're absolutely
thrilled that we'll

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be launching Tracy's
newest book here

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in Tucson, which is Fear Less:
Poetry in Perilous Times.

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We are incredibly lucky.

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We had a great collaboration
with Norton Press.

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And so this book is here early.

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It comes out in
November, but we've

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got it here in Tucson first.

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And so I encourage you to
find that book afterwards

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in the back where the
bookstore selling books.

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Some of Tracy's other books
and works are back there, too,

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and she'll be happy
to sign those.

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And that line will form this
way and come up over here

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at the signing table here.

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So buy your books
there, come up this way,

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and we can get
those books signed.

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And you can spend some time
talking to Tracy there, too.