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Hey, everybody.

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How we doing?

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OK?

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Good?

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Welcome.

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Happy summer in Tucson.

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It's June.

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Look at the people around you.

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You're the real Tucsonans.

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Good work.

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You stuck around.

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You guys count.

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Happy lizard season.

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It's nice to be
here with you guys.

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And it's nice to be celebrating
our summer poet in residence

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tonight, January
Gill O'Neil, who's

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come back to Tucson after
visiting sometime long ago.

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And so we're really
thrilled that she's

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been here working on
two new manuscripts

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while she's been in town.

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And so if we play
our cards right,

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we may get to hear some poems
from those later this evening.

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So everybody be
shuffling your cards,

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trying to play them correctly.

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If you have not already received
one of these in the mail--

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has anybody seen this yet?

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This is our summer calendar,
which is delightful, attractive,

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will look great in
your house hanging

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next to all the other
things that you care about

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in your houses.

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And so this will tell
you about everything

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that's coming up at the
Poetry Center this summer.

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There's some extra
ones that are here.

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There's some that are going to
be over on the book sale table.

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So if you want to know about
what's happening at the Poetry

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Center this summer,
this is your ticket that

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will tell you all about it.

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Two of the things I want
to point out, especially.

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There are two summer
socials coming up.

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And these are what we imagine
as kind of inspired Happy Hours.

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Both are going to take place
on Sundays at 4 o'clock

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at the Century Room
in Hotel Congress.

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So if these will happen in such
a way that there's a jazz jam

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that happens after that.

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So if you want to make
it a big evening where

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you can do all those
things, you can

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do inspired Happy Hours and
then jazz jams afterwards,

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and then you'll also be
a true Tucsonan again.

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The one that's happening
first on Sunday, June 28,

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is your chance to be
a part of a community

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to help summon
the monsoon rains.

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And so we started this last
year and had an open mic

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where you brought
your rainiest poems

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and shared those to help
bring in some rains.

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And then it rained.

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Last year it rained.

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So if you think poetry can do
nothing, I have news for you.

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[LAUGHTER]

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We're going to do it
again, and do it twice.

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So hopefully, the rain
comes before June 28.

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But in case it hasn't, we
need you all to be there.

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You can sign up to read
your poems in advance

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on the website on the event
listing for that program.

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And we're going to just
going to have 30 spots.

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It can be your own poem
that you've written,

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or it can be a poem that you
love that is rain-inspired.

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So I hope you'll join us.

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Hope you'll fill up that air
full of the most humid poems

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we can imagine and
try to get it to rain.

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The second summer social
is going to be on August 2

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again, 4 o'clock at
Sunday at the Century

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room at Hotel Congress.

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And this one will feature an
artist collaborative, Hannah

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Larrabee and Jacinda Russell.

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And they are collaborators who
have done a residency together

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in the Arctic.

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And so the result
of that residency

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is the summer show
that will be installed

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at the Poetry Center coming up.

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It's called Language Erratics.

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It promises to be a
really cool show and event

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See what I did there?

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Yeah, good?

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Thank you for doing that.

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I'm a dad.

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So that's August 2.

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The show will be up.

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Before that, they'll be here.

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They're also teaching a class.

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And so one of the other
messages I want to share

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is that there are great summer
classes at the Poetry Center,

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and a couple of them
still have spots left.

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And you can learn about that
at the website or on this card,

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poetry.arizona.edu, on
this piece of paper.

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And one of those is the
class with Jacinda and Hannah

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about collaborating,
which will be awesome.

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Farther out on the
horizon this summer.

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So in August, we're
going to do, as we

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have in the past many
years, The Sealey Challenge.

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How many of you have done
The Sealey Challenge?

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Good.

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How many of you have no
idea what I'm talking about?

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Great.

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OK.

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So very briefly and quickly,
The Sealey Challenge

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is your chance to do one of
the most beautiful things

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you can for your
brain, and that's

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to choose to read a
book of poems a day

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for the month of August.

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31 days, 31 books.

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You're very lucky in Tucson
because you have access to one

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of the most beautiful
collections of poetry

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books in the world just across
the way at the Poetry Center.

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It is not incumbent upon
you to read large books.

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And so I would encourage you
not to choose anthologies.

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And we have many short books.

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And it's also OK--

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There's no FIFA that
is governing this.

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You get to decide what
success looks like.

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But the goal is to
read as much poetry

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as you can do for
yourself in August.

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And I promise, in this
moment, in this world

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with these headlines, it is
one of the truly best things

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you can do for your brain.

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And so I hope you'll
join us in doing that.

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To help support that, in
the middle of the month,

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we're going to have a poetry
book swap at Bar Crisol

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on the 13th of August.

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You can find all
of that stuff here.

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You can bring books
that you're done with

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and take new books
home with you.

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And then last thing I want--
a couple of last details,

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our summer closure.

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So we closed for two
weeks in the summer

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so that our dedicated
and dutiful staff

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can have a chance
to take a break,

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because we deserve
vacations, too.

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We'll start on July 3, so
that Friday we'll be observing

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the 4th.

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And then we'll reopen
on Tuesday, the 21st.

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So you can come in and finish
your Sealey Challenge selections

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right afterwards.

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Books are going to be for
sale after the reading

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because the computer
is working, I think.

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Looks like it probably is.

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It's going to get working.

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And so buy books
after the reading.

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I know January will
be happy to sign them.

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We'll skip the normal Q &
A, but come meet January.

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Come talk to her.

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Come have her sign
books afterwards.

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And she's thrilled to be in
conversation with you all.

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That's the things
I wanted to say.

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[SHARP EXHALE] Buckle
your seatbelts.

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We're about to go from
January, January in June.

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So we're going to do a
time travel sort of vortex.

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To tell you more about
our visiting poet,

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I want you to please help
me welcome a local poet

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and translator,
Kelsi Vanada, who's

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the program coordinator at the
American Literary Translators

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Association and the
author, most recently,

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of the poetry collection
Optional Saint

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and the forthcoming translation
of Berta García Faet's A Little

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Pretty Personality.

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Please help me
welcome Kelsi Vanada.

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[APPLAUSE]

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