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Thank you Cybele.

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So the topic of the
first panel today

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is the Joys and Challenges
of Small Press Publishing.

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And I'm joined today by
Lisa Bowden, Kore Press,

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Drew Burk from Spork Press,
and Charles Alexander

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from Chax Press.

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I'll introduce them
in just a moment.

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We'll be talking for
about 15 minutes.

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A little louder,
can you all hear me?

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Is that?

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We'll be talking
for about 50 minutes

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and I'd like the
last 10 or 15 minutes

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of that to have questions
from the audience.

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So you might keep
that in mind as we're

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talking about things if
there's anything you'd like

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them to elaborate further on.

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[CHATTER]

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Lisa Bowden is a co-founder
of Kore Press, which

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since 1993, has been
publishing women

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writers to deepen
awareness and advance

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progressive social change.

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She is editor of "Autumnal,"
a collection of elegies,

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and co-editor of "Powder,
Writing by Women in Ranks

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from Vietnam to Iraq."

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Thanks for being with us, Lisa.

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Drew Burk is the
fiction editor and lead

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bookbinder for Spork Press.

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Spork began in 2000
as a literary magazine

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with the intent of
showcasing the writing Tucson

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had to offer, but they
didn't stay local for long.

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Today, Spork is publishing
some of the most exciting,

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emerging, and
established writers.

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Spork engages in various
media from handmade chap books

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to online publication.

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Thanks for being with us, Drew.

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Charles Alexander is
the executive director

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of Chax Press, which publishes
experimental and innovative

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writing that has a strong
humanist commitment.

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Since its founding in 1984,
he has published more than 120

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books, as well as chap
books and broadsides.

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Charles is also the author
of several books of poetry,

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including most recently,
"Certain Slants" and "Near

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or Random Acts."

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