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Hello, everybody.

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Welcome how are you all.

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Good.

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All right.

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Let's applaud your well-being.

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I like it, I'm stowing
everyone as I do this.

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There'll be about
10 readers tonight.

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And this is how this microphone
works best when you're

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about this far away from it.

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So one example.

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Welcome to the Poetry Center.

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If you've not been here
before, my name is Tyler Meier.

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We have a very
special night tonight

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and you've made an
excellent choice

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with your Thursday evening.

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And the most exciting
news about that

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is that you have a
chance to do it again

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tomorrow night on Friday.

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And so this is the first
half of the 2026 readings

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from the In-Na-Po retreat.

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And it will feature Fellows
and faculty from the retreat.

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And those that weren't
reading tonight

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will be reading tomorrow
night back here at the Poetry

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Center at 7 o'clock.

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So an amazing sequence of
opportunities awaits you.

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But thanks for
being here tonight.

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How many of you were
in Dragoon, Arizona

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last night at about 7 o'clock.

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Oh, good work.

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Hooray.

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Good work.

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There was a wonderful reading
that happened out there.

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There was a poetry bus
that left the Poetry Center

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and magically returned.

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[LAUGHTER]

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It made it.

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And a great reading
that happened out there.

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And we're really
excited for the readings

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that are going to happen here.

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That was perhaps our last
chance to be cold in Tucson

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for five months.

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And so if you opted into
that good work, remember it.

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So again, a big thrill to
have the In-Na-Po retreat

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here with us in Tucson.

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This is the fifth
iteration of the retreat.

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It's moved to many
different places.

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This is the first time it's
been in Southern Arizona,

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and it's just been incredible
and really meaningful

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for the Poetry Center.

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And I hope really exciting
for the participants as well.

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In-Na-Po is piloted
by an incredible team.

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And that includes people
like Andrew Blue Sky.

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Maybe round of applause.

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[APPLAUSE]

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Jodi Vander Molen.

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Jodi.

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Yeah.

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Angie Trudell Vasquez
with really able

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assists in the
planning this year

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from Chris Hoshnic
and Max Early.

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[APPLAUSE]

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And of course, the
founding director

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and presiding spirit in
many ways of In-Na-Po,

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the poet Kimberly Blaeser.

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So Paola and I from
the Poetry Center

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have been working with this
group for the last many months,

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thinking about the retreat,
organizing details.

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We mostly knew these people as
rectangles on a computer screen,

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and it's been really exciting to
know them in our corporeal forms

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together.

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So a real joy.

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And it's been a delight to see
the fruits of all this good work

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that's happened together.

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I want to have you please put
your hands also together again

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for pose partners.

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And for the first part of the--

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I'm sorry-- for
the partners that

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have been part of
the collaboration

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to help make this happen.

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And that is the
Amerind museum, which

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is the destination in
Dragoon, Arizona, where

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the group has been for the
first four days of the retreat.

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They've been both host and
backdrop for all the things

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that have happened.

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And we want to give a
special shout out and welcome

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to their executive director,
Eric Kaldahl, who's here,

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and their development director,
Kelly Holt, who's here as well.

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So hooray, Kelly.

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Thank you.

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[APPLAUSE]

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And then last thing, I'll
just say some quick thanks

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to folks that have helped
put some wind in the sails.

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So these efforts always
cost a little bit of money

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as we organize, as
we make them happen.

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And we've had great support
from this community.

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And we're so grateful for it.

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And I especially want to
acknowledge the support of Chuck

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Hudson from the MHA Nation.

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And Sarah Chisholm please.

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Round of applause.

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Chuck is here.

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[APPLAUSE]

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There he is.

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Thank you.

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Chuck.

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Sarah is here as well.

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Thanks for support from Mark
Batty who's here as well,

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I think.

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Mark.

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Thank you, Mark.

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We want to thank the
office on campus,

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the Office of Native American
Advancement and Tribal

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Engagement for their support as
well of what's been happening.

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[APPLAUSE]

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So without further
ado, I'm going

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to turn things over
to Kimberly Blaeser

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to tell you a bit
more about In-Na-Po.

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And then she'll introduce
Andrew and we'll

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be off to the readings.

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10 readers tonight.

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Thanks for being here.

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Hope to see you again tomorrow.

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Please welcome Kimberly Blaeser.

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