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I'm Elizabeth Evans.

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Welcome to all of you.

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This is a very special event,
a reading by Joan Silber.

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She's the first of the five
terrific writers who make up

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our 2011-2012 Prose Series.

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And I couldn't be
happier to see her here.

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I look forward to hearing what
she's going to read tonight.

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I know it'll be wonderful.

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Timothy Shaffert will
be reading in November.

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In February, Daniyal
Mueenuddin will be here.

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John Price will read March 19,
and Monica Drake, March 26.

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Special thanks are in order
to the English Department

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for funding the Prose Series, to
the Poetry Center for allowing

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us not only to use their
facilities for meetings

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and readings but also for
offering our visitors use

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of the Poetry Center cottage.

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Thanks also to the
College of Humanities

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for developing the posters
and flyers for this series.

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And now, Manuel Muñoz,
fiction writer par excellence,

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professor, will introduce Joan.

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[APPLAUSE]

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