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[APPLAUSE]

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[SIGHS] My god.

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Hello.

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Thank you, Melissa.

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That was such a
fantastic introduction.

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I appreciate it so much.

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To be read closely and carefully
is like the greatest gift,

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and it just feels like it's
your birthday and everybody's

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clapping for you.

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Anyway--

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[AUDIENCE LAUGHS]

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--it's really cool.

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Thank you all for being here.

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It's really blowing
my mind to see

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this beautiful crowd of people
spilling out into the air.

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Cameron and I flew in from
Western Massachusetts,

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so the fact that this
thing can be open

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is mind-boggling to me
in the best of ways.

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We've had just the
best week here.

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Thank you so much
to Tim and Anne

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for making our
time here possible,

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for making the time of
future queer and trans poets

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here possible.

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Like, it kind of
is beyond words.

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Poetry so depends
on the people who

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believe in it for it to
exist and to be robust.

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And some of those people are
poets, and some of them are not.

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And my life would
not be possible

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if it were not for the
people who believe in poetry.

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So thank you all for being here
and for making this possible.

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Also, thank you to Tyler.

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Thank you to Paola.

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Thank you, TC.

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Thank you to-- I mean, I
think I wrote down-- oh yeah,

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the last person on the
list of people to thank

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was just everyone.

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So I think thank you, everyone.

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[AUDIENCE LAUGHS]