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And Layli and her husband
Orlando both teach at Diné

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College in Tsaile.

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Orlando I met when I
was teaching a summer

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workshop at Naropa, and
he was the IAIA fellow

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there that summer.

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And I had come to Naropa years
before in the same capacity

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for my IAIA as a fellow.

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So it was a nice point
of juncture for me.

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And I appreciated his
work when I first met him.

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And I have grown to
deeply appreciate

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his work over the years.

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He is Diné of the Zuni Water
Edge Clan and born for Mexican

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Clan.

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He holds a BFA
from the Institute

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of American Indian Arts and
an MFA from Brown University.

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His poems have appeared in
Bombay Gin, Kenyon Review,

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Oregon Literary
Review, Ploughshares,

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Salt Hill journal, Sentence,
Talking Stick, and elsewhere.

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He's professor of writing
at Trinity College and lives

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in Tsaile, Arizona.

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Bone Light is his first book
from Red Hen Press, 2009.

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Please join me in
welcoming Orlando White.

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[APPLAUSE]

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