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No pressure.
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I'm sure you've got it.
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My name is Jericho.
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I, um, I'm here because when I was 22 years old, um, I guess it's 26 years ago or so.
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Um.
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I went, um, I was attending a poetry workshop in New Orleans called The No More Literary Society, um, facilitated by a man called Kalamu ya Salaam.
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And he had told me, uh, he told me about a poetry reading.
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And I went to the very first poetry reading that I went to that was not assigned to me.
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And at that reading, uh, it was given by a man named Niyi Osundare.
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And, um, and I met while I was there, these two really gifted poets named Yona Harvey and Terrence Hayes.
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And, um, I have always thought that that was the first day of the rest of my life.
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And I'm telling you this now because for someone else in this room, it is the first day of the rest of their poetry life.
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And it is important that we welcome them forever.
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Ladies and gentlemen, my girl.
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