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Wow.

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I felt a lot already, and
I'm just getting to the mic.

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Holy shit.

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It's such a privilege to be here
with all of you, so many of whom

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are friends, and students,
and colleagues, and teachers,

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and combinations of
all those things, which

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is what many of you are.

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I'm verklempt.

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I didn't know I was
going to get verklempt.

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But thank you, Tyler, for the
incredible work that you do.

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Thank you, Paola and the entire
staff of the Poetry Center,

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for the amazing
work that you do.

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Thank you, Sarah
Gzemski, who, in addition

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to being the business manager,
who makes sure all of this

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gets to happen, is my
publisher, the executive editor

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of Noemi Press.

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And that is no small feat.

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It is the press that put
out the book Defacing

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the Monument, to
which Raquel referred

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and has put out this book.

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And we'll put out Raquel's
forthcoming collection of poems.

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All right.

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I'm going to start by reading
a poem by Farid Matuk.

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How lucky am that I get to share
this book with you all and then

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with this guy, who I've
been poeting next to

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for quite a few years?

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Just a few.