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Hi, everyone.

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I'm Cybele Knowles.

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I work here at
the Poetry Center,

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and we have a big, important,
and really exciting evening

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tonight.

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A celebration of the publication
of I'll Drown My Book--

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Conceptual Writing By Women.

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The coordination of
this night's reading

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has been a real labor of love.

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And many people have
shared in that labor,

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but of course, and
actually, it is entirely

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thanks to Laynie Browne
that tonight is happening.

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Laynie is the co-editor, along
with Caroline Bergvall, Teresa

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Carmody, and Vanessa Place,
of I'll Drown My Book.

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Laynie was a key contributor at
the Poetry Center's Conceptual

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Poetry Symposium in 2008,
which is where, I believe,

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the idea for this book
first flickered into being.

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I know many people, maybe
everyone in this room,

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knows Laynie.

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We know her as a wonderful
poet with 11 books to her name,

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and we know her as a devoted
teacher, as a colleague,

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as a mentor, as a friend.

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So we all say,
Laynie, thank you--

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[APPLAUSE]

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--not only for tonight, but
for everything that you do.

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Laynie Browne.

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