WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:00.750 align:middle line:90% Hello. 00:00:00.750 --> 00:00:02.370 align:middle line:90% Hello. 00:00:02.370 --> 00:00:03.000 align:middle line:90% Hi. 00:00:03.000 --> 00:00:04.330 align:middle line:90% What a nice crowd. 00:00:04.330 --> 00:00:07.600 align:middle line:84% What a nice crowd on this beautiful evening. 00:00:07.600 --> 00:00:12.070 align:middle line:84% Welcome to the first Prose Series event of the year. 00:00:12.070 --> 00:00:15.870 align:middle line:84% We are so grateful as always to the Poetry Center 00:00:15.870 --> 00:00:18.330 align:middle line:84% for allowing us to celebrate writing 00:00:18.330 --> 00:00:20.940 align:middle line:90% with fewer line breaks in it. 00:00:20.940 --> 00:00:24.480 align:middle line:84% Two nights a semester in this beautiful space. 00:00:24.480 --> 00:00:27.450 align:middle line:84% And thank you so much the Poetry Center for your care 00:00:27.450 --> 00:00:29.910 align:middle line:84% in helping us make our authors and audience members 00:00:29.910 --> 00:00:32.190 align:middle line:84% comfortable, and to the bookstore 00:00:32.190 --> 00:00:33.690 align:middle line:84% for supporting our authors by having 00:00:33.690 --> 00:00:35.850 align:middle line:84% their books available for purchase before 00:00:35.850 --> 00:00:38.315 align:middle line:90% or now after the reading. 00:00:38.315 --> 00:00:39.690 align:middle line:84% And after the reading, there will 00:00:39.690 --> 00:00:44.178 align:middle line:84% be a brief Q and A. I will keep my introductory notes as brief 00:00:44.178 --> 00:00:45.720 align:middle line:84% as I can because I'm really just here 00:00:45.720 --> 00:00:48.480 align:middle line:90% to introduce the introducers. 00:00:48.480 --> 00:00:51.540 align:middle line:84% On behalf of my co-coordinator of the Prose Series, Ander 00:00:51.540 --> 00:00:54.720 align:middle line:84% Monson, and myself, I want to thank the sponsors 00:00:54.720 --> 00:00:56.160 align:middle line:90% of tonight's reading. 00:00:56.160 --> 00:00:59.430 align:middle line:84% The Department of English, the MFA program 00:00:59.430 --> 00:01:03.720 align:middle line:84% in creative writing, the Institute for LGBT studies, 00:01:03.720 --> 00:01:07.560 align:middle line:84% the Department of Gender and Women's Studies, Alison Deming 00:01:07.560 --> 00:01:10.680 align:middle line:84% and the Agnese Nelms Haury program. 00:01:10.680 --> 00:01:14.880 align:middle line:84% Ander Monson and DIAGRAM, Fairy Tale Review. 00:01:14.880 --> 00:01:17.070 align:middle line:90% And that's me. 00:01:17.070 --> 00:01:20.400 align:middle line:90% And Poets and Writers as well. 00:01:20.400 --> 00:01:22.890 align:middle line:84% Truly without sponsors for the Prose Series, 00:01:22.890 --> 00:01:26.490 align:middle line:84% we would not be able to bring such esteemed guests 00:01:26.490 --> 00:01:29.940 align:middle line:84% such as tonight's readers T Clutch Fleischmann and Andrea 00:01:29.940 --> 00:01:31.510 align:middle line:90% Lawlor to campus. 00:01:31.510 --> 00:01:34.440 align:middle line:84% And if you, yourself, would like to help 00:01:34.440 --> 00:01:36.750 align:middle line:84% sponsor reading this year, please reach out 00:01:36.750 --> 00:01:39.000 align:middle line:90% to me or to Ander. 00:01:39.000 --> 00:01:41.430 align:middle line:90% No contribution is too small. 00:01:41.430 --> 00:01:45.090 align:middle line:84% Our visitors sometimes like cups of coffee, for example. 00:01:45.090 --> 00:01:46.800 align:middle line:84% We're still raising funds for this year. 00:01:46.800 --> 00:01:49.380 align:middle line:90% And we do appreciate your help. 00:01:49.380 --> 00:01:51.300 align:middle line:84% Before I introduce our introducers, 00:01:51.300 --> 00:01:54.330 align:middle line:84% I'd also like to very briefly announce next month's readings 00:01:54.330 --> 00:01:55.740 align:middle line:90% as well. 00:01:55.740 --> 00:01:59.490 align:middle line:84% On November 8, we're proud to host our homecoming reading 00:01:59.490 --> 00:02:03.120 align:middle line:84% featuring MFA alums who have recently published first books. 00:02:03.120 --> 00:02:08.580 align:middle line:84% Elizabeth Bernays, Nina Boutsikaris, and Noam Dorr. 00:02:08.580 --> 00:02:12.510 align:middle line:84% This event will be on Friday, November 8 at 6:00 PM 00:02:12.510 --> 00:02:15.060 align:middle line:90% at Borderlands Brewing Downtown. 00:02:15.060 --> 00:02:15.840 align:middle line:90% It's free. 00:02:15.840 --> 00:02:18.600 align:middle line:84% And as all of our readings, open to all. 00:02:18.600 --> 00:02:22.230 align:middle line:84% And on Tuesday, Tuesday an unusual day, 00:02:22.230 --> 00:02:26.670 align:middle line:84% November 12th at 7:00 PM in this space, New York Times best 00:02:26.670 --> 00:02:29.910 align:middle line:84% selling author and vanguard feminist fabulist Aimee Bender 00:02:29.910 --> 00:02:31.470 align:middle line:90% will be reading. 00:02:31.470 --> 00:02:34.050 align:middle line:84% Tonight, we have two readers whose work 00:02:34.050 --> 00:02:37.470 align:middle line:84% I have relished as a reader, as a writer, 00:02:37.470 --> 00:02:40.320 align:middle line:84% and in the classroom is a professor in all contexts 00:02:40.320 --> 00:02:42.450 align:middle line:84% I learned so much from their work. 00:02:42.450 --> 00:02:44.640 align:middle line:84% Each of our authors will be introduced 00:02:44.640 --> 00:02:49.260 align:middle line:84% before they read by one of our fantastic masters of arts 00:02:49.260 --> 00:02:51.810 align:middle line:90% in creative writing students. 00:02:51.810 --> 00:02:55.740 align:middle line:84% T Clutch Fleischmann will be introduced by our nonfiction 00:02:55.740 --> 00:02:59.700 align:middle line:84% writer, Austin Maas, and Andrea Lawlor 00:02:59.700 --> 00:03:03.120 align:middle line:84% will be introduced by our fiction writer, Emi Noguchi. 00:03:03.120 --> 00:03:06.710 align:middle line:84% So please join me in welcoming all. 00:03:06.710 --> 00:03:08.160 align:middle line:90%