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Hello, everybody.

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Welcome.

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How are you doing?

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Good.

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Happy Thursday.

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Glad you're here.

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You're making an excellent
choice for a Thursday.

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And I commend you in advance.

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Glad folks are here for
the second engagement

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that Anselm Berrigan is
doing in Tucson with us

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before we soon send him
home back to New York.

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If you were here
last night and got

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to hear the lecture, the
talk that Anselm gave,

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it was really amazing
and really incredible.

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So that's recorded.

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And if you missed it and
are interested in it,

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you'll be able to see that on
the Poetry Center's website

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really soon and
our Voca archive,

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which is our archive of recorded
readings and happenings that

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happen here at
the Poetry Center,

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which I'm a little partial,
but it's pretty awesome and is

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a kind of history of 20th
century poetry and 21st century

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poetry that tracks its way
through Tucson from podiums much

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like this one, in fact,
maybe this very one.

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Before we get started, we're
at the end of our fall season.

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So if you've been
here for other events

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that have happened in the fall,
thanks for coming to those.

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There's a lot coming
up in the spring,

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but before I talk
about that briefly,

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I just want to-- there's
lots of-- poetry centering

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is a team sport.

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It takes a lot of
people working on this.

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And I have an incredible
group of people

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that work at the Poetry Center.

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And I think we all feel
really privileged to be

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able to think about and do this
work together with each other,

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with this community
in particular.

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But two people I want to
point to in particular,

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that labor really
hard for these events

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and do incredible work in every
Thursday when we do events,

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and I want you to help
me applaud for them.

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So get out your
fingers, stretch them

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so they can be as
loud as possible.

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And if you've had a good
experience at any Poetry Center

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event, I want you to
put your hands together

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for Paola Valenzuela, who
works really hard to do this.

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She's here with a large
heart on her sweater.

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And that is how I
think about Paola

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as a giant heart doing this work
and helping all the good things

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happen in the reading
series and other things

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at the Poetry Center.

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But keep your fingers out.

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I also want you to applaud
for Bruno Ingram, who's

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over here making things happen
all the time behind the computer

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and helping these
readings get recorded,

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and be heard, and live
eventually on that archive.

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So thanks for that.

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I really appreciate it.

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The spring season, if you
were paying attention,

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was scrolling through on
the PowerPoint behind me,

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there's a lot of really good
things that are about to happen.

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So we're really
can't wait for that

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and are excited to welcome
you back in January when

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those are happening.

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Some of those first
visits are from poets

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like Franny Choi, Cameron
Awkward-Rich, Eleanor Wilner

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and Alicia Ostriker.

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And that's just January.

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So there's more to
come after that.

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So we'll look forward to
seeing you at those events

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as they come up.

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Our calendars will be in the
mail coming really, really soon.

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And we're looking forward
to sharing that with you.

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Before we get there,
there's a little bit of time

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when the Poetry Center
is going to be closed.

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And I just want to make sure
everybody knows about this

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in case you like visiting
the library, from December 15

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until January 6.

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So that's a time
when they're going

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to work on finishing an
upgrade to our HVAC system.

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So you might be enjoying
the nice warmer temperatures

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in this room, which is
a small miracle to us

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that it can be warmer.

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There's some last things
that they need to do,

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and they're going to take
advantage of the time

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when they can be closed to
be messy and be a jobsite.

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And when you come back,
everything will be great.

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So come back in January, and
everything will be great.

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And we're looking
forward to that.

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And we're excited to
welcome you back then.

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In addition to the
season that I mentioned,

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our classes and workshops is
also about to open as well.

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So there's a lot
of exciting classes

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that will be happening
throughout the spring,

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starting in January,
but continuing

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through all the months of
the spring season until May.

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There is a financial aid window.

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So if that might help for
you to take those classes,

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we want to make sure
you know about it.

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Very easy to sign
up, you just need

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to say that you would
like to have that help.

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We take all of those
people that signal

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that they would like that, and
then we have a random drawing.

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We have for people
that get a free tuition

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to a course of their choosing.

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That opens on this
Friday at 10:00 AM,

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and then that window
closes on Thursday.

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And it's the one time
where that's possible.

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So if you're interested
in classes at all,

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take advantage of that window
of time, jump into that space.

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And we'd be excited to be able
to share the classes with you.

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Those classes then open to
the general public on the 12th

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at 10:00 AM.

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And they're open until
they're filled up.

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Some of them go fast.

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They fit in
stockings really well

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if you want to give them to
someone over a holiday season,

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to yourself, give
them to yourself.

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So learn about those
classes on the website.

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And we hope you'll sign
up for those as well.

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After the reading
tonight, I know

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Anselm would be excited
to talk with you.

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Books are for sale
over here on my right.

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So I'm sure he'd be
happy to sign those.

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So I hope you'll take advantage
of that after the reading

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and come connect with
Anselm afterwards.

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And then the last thing
I'll say before I sit down,

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it's a real pleasure to have
an introduction for Anselm

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from a great friend
of the Poetry Center,

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Gabriel Dozal, who's
a lecturer here

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at the University of Arizona,
a great friend of the Poetry

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Center, and author of the really
wonderful book, The Border

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Simulator.

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Please help me
welcome Gabe Dozal.

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[APPLAUSE]

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Yeah, thanks.