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[APPLAUSE]

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Thank you, Diana.

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Thank you, all, for
coming out, on a Tuesday

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night, for a special
installment of our MFA program

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in Creative Writing
Prose Series.

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It's nice to see familiar
faces, new faces, students

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from "Introduction
to Fairy Tales."

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Yay.

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[LAUGHTER]

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Thanks for coming.

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I'm just going to, quickly,
thank our sponsors.

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The Department of-- well, of
course-- the Poetry Center.

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So thank you for
allowing us "prosers"

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a couple of nights a year.

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[LAUGHTER]

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The Department of
English, the MFA program

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in Creative Writing,
the Haury Fund.

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Thanks to Professor
Alison Deming,

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for a generous sponsorship.

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Poets and writers, the Literary
Journal, Fairy Tale Review,

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the Department of
Gender and Women's

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Studies, the Institute for LGBTQ
Studies, and DIAGRAM magazine.

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Wow.

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I think I've covered it all.

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Those are our sponsors.

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If you gather, from the list
of sponsors, it's because, yes.

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We have genuine,
beautiful interest

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in our amazing, esteemed
writers and the students

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that we have-- who come
from all over the world--

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to work in Tucson, many
of whom are here tonight

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and who are your teachers.

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It's also because--
funding reasons.

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Yes, we do have to ask
for co-sponsorship.

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So if you enjoy evenings like
tonight, and you enjoy authors,

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like Aimee Bender--

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and you love the Poetry
Center and the Voca

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archives and listen
to those resources

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from wherever you are--

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please consider contributing
to the prose series.

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There's no amount too
small to contribute.

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As I say, always,
our visiting authors,

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sometimes, do want
a cup of coffee.

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So--

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[LAUGHTER]

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--there's no
contribution too small.

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But thank you so
much for coming.

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It's my honor tonight to
introduce Kim Bussing to you,

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an MFA candidate in
fiction, who will

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have the pleasure of introducing
our visitor, Aimee Bender.

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Thank you for coming.

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