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Let's see.

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I've got stuff.

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What is that?

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Recall a natural herb.

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No, that's not Judy.

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It is with great pleasure
that I introduce Judith Ortiz

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Cofer, who is by now I guess
we could say old friends.

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Yeah.

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OK.

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In keeping with
tradition, I'm going

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to make the introduction short.

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Alison suggested that I might
tell some personal stories

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about Judy to get
things started,

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but each one I came up with
she forbade me to tell.

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So I'll simply do the numbers.

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Judith Ortiz Cofer was
born in Puerto Rico

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and grew up in
Paterson, New Jersey.

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Actually, we were talking
tonight about something

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that Judy is
interested in, which

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is writing
autobiographically, but having

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license to lie about oneself.

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And we discovered
that she's actually

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Hilda Nordstrom from Oslo.

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[LAUGHTER]

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Her books are two
books of poems--

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Reaching for the Mainland
and Terms of Survival.

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Her novel The Line of the
Sun was the first novel

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published by the University
of Georgia Press.

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She also has a book of essays
and poems, Silent Dancing,

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which won a special citation--

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the PEN Albrand award.

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The title essay
from it was chosen

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by Joyce Carol
Oates for inclusion

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in the best American essays.

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She'll be teaching at both
the University of Michigan

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and Georgia, though not
simultaneously this year.

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With great pleasure,
Judith Ortiz Cofer.

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[APPLAUSE]

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