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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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Are you warm?

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Yes.

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OK.

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If you're not warm,
just make a good friend.

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And get-- I'm glad
you guys are here.

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Thanks for coming on a Thursday
night to the Poetry Center,

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and braving whatever
weather comes our way.

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We were joking,
and we could say,

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welcome to the Poetry
Center in Seattle.

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But we're in Tucson, and
we're happy for the rain

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and happy that
you are here, also

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for poems on a Thursday night.

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Which also feels like
an important sign

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of order in the world.

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And I appreciate
you being a part

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of the things that happen here.

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So thank you for
coming and joining us.

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We could not be more thrilled to
have the poets Matthew Olzmann

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and Vievee Francis here with us.

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And so, a big round
of applause to them.

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[APPLAUSE]

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They've traveled almost
as far as you possibly

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can to come visit us in Tucson.

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And so we're thrilled
that they're here.

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We've had a really
delightful visit

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with them over the past
many days here in Tucson.

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And a true joy to talk
with them about poets

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that are parts of their orbits
and their histories, and the way

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they've found their way forward
and their lives as poets.

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That help them think about the
things that they think about--

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help them think
about the art form.

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And so that's been a gift to
us at the Poetry Center, where

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we spend so much energy and
time thinking about poetry

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and its connections to the
humans and the makers of the art

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form too.

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So huge kudos and a great
pleasure, and welcome you guys.

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We're so glad that you're here.

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I want to tell
you about a couple

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of things that are coming up.

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My name is Tyler.

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I work as the director
here at the Poetry Center.

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Our last reading and
lecture of the fall semester

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happens right after the break
of the Thanksgiving holidays.

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And so on December third,
which is a Wednesday,

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we'll have the poet Anselm
Berrigan here who'll

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give a lecture on a topic--

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where's Paola?

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I think she's almost over here--

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on a lecture that we're
still learning the topic of.

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But if you know
Anselm Berrigan's work

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at all prolific poet and
also the son of two poets.

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So the son of Alice
Notley and Ted

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Berrigan and very interested
in traveling to Tucson.

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It's a collaboration with a
group called the Bagley Wright

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Lecture Series, which
supports mid-career poets

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and thinking about
poetry and poetics.

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And giving them some space
and time to do that work

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and then to present it.

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And so it was really exciting
to Anselm to do some of that

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here in Arizona.

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Alice and Ted both spent
some time in Bisbee.

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And so, so having that
connection was important to him

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and important to us.

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So we're thrilled about that.

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That's December third, the
Wednesday, seven o'clock

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back here at the Poetry Center.

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It promises to be a slight
bit warmer, so come back.

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On the fourth, the next night,
Anselm will read from his poetry

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also back here at seven
o'clock at the Poetry Center.

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So a twofer that
week, and we hope

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you'll join us for both of
those events, Wednesday,

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and Thursday, both at seven
o'clock, Poetry Center.

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After that, we have a break.

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And so I just want
to remind you,

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if you haven't heard
this message yet,

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the Poetry Center is
going to be closed

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to the public from December--

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after our hours on December
13, which is the Saturday hours

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that we have.

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We're going to
close to the public.

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We'll reopen on January
sixth, the Tuesday.

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And that is to allow for some
work with our HVAC system.

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And so when you come back, we're
going to have a fantastic space

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that will be warm and
inviting and dehumidified,

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and we'll feel like
an A+ HVAC experience.

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And thanks for putting up with
us while that work happens.

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We're thrilled to
have that accomplished

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and to have the Poetry Center
set up for many decades to come.

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And once it's completed,

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then the spring season looms.

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And so we're really
optimistic and excited

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about all the
poetry that's going

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to come your way in the spring.

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How many of you have taken
classes and workshops

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at the Poetry
Center in the past?

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Hooray!

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What a good group.

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If you haven't done
that, don't fear.

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There's a chance
for you to do this.

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And our spring season
of classes will launch.

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We'll announce them
on December second.

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They'll open to the
public on December ninth.

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And at December
second to the ninth,

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there will be our
financial-aid period.

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So we want to make sure the
classes are accessible to as

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many people as possible.

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There is a small fee
associated with them,

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but we keep it as
small as we can.

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And we hope you'll be
interested in those

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and take advantage of them.

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And that's when they'll be
available to the general public

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on December ninth.

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And financial aid is just
before that on December second.

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And that starts first.

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Our first readings in January
just to give a quick heads up.

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We're really excited
to be launching

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a new residency for queer
poets, with some new support

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for the Poetry Center.

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It's named for the poets HD
and HD's long relationship

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with Bryher.

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And so that will be the
poets Franny Choi and Cameron

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Awkward-Rich, who are going
to be with us and reading

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on January 15th here
at the Poetry Center.

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So be excited about that.

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And then our next reading
will be also a double reading

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with two American poets, Eleanor
Wilner and Alicia Ostriker,

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on January 29.

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So we're excited about those.

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And that's the
tip of the iceberg

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for the rest of the spring.

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So look forward to that.

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The information is coming soon.

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The calendar is coming soon.

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That's what's coming up
at the Poetry Center.

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It's been a really
beautiful season.

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Thanks for being a part of it.

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For the poets tonight:
Matthew is going to read first

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and I'm going to welcome up
in a moment, my colleague

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to introduce him.

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After Matthew, Vievee will read.

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And Vievee will to be introduced
by my colleague Aria Pahari,

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who's our library specialist.

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Tremendous poet.

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If you walk through the front
door of the Poetry Center,

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the first person
you see is Aria.

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And so we're really
excited about this.

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And then to introduce
Matthew first

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is our library director, also a
terrific poet, Sarah Kortemeier.

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Please help me welcome my
colleague Sarah Kortemeier.

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[APPLAUSE]