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So this is a collaboration
that is undertaken

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between the Poetry Center and
the University of Arizona Prose

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Series.

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Each of these readings
in the miniseries

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features writers who are working
across more traditionally

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defined notions
of literary genre.

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Work that can both
affirm the different DNA

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strands that distinguish a
story, or a poem, or an essay,

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but more often that work
also sometimes miraculously,

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sometimes even simultaneously
to cancel those distinctions,

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to mess with the norms,
and to alter in the end

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how language goes
about its business.

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We're really excited that
Maggie Nelson is here.

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I'm excited to tell you
that Ander Monson will

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be introducing again.

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How many people heard
Ander introduce last time

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for Lia Purpura?

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Great.

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Exclamation point.

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It happens again.

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Ander introduces
again, and he'll

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introduce again, and again.

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Four times, so here's what
I will tell you about Ander.

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Be excited.

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One thing I will say, because
he'll say it if I don't.

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It's a great
opportunity right now

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to turn off your cell phones, or
silence them, or turn them off.

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Pretend like we're
on a giant jet.

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Ander Monson is the
author of a wild diversity

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of books of essays,
stories, poems, and memoir.

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Including Vanishing Point,
Other Electricities,

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Neck Deep and Other Predicaments,
The Available World,

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and Vacation Land.

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It's an awesome
series of titles.

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He is publisher
and editor in chief

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of Diagram, an online
journal of text and art

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that he founded in 2001.

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And is also founding
editor of The New Michigan

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Press, a publisher of chapbooks,
anthologies, broadsides,

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and more.

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He's professor of nonfiction
in the creative writing MFA

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program at the
University of Arizona.

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He has two forthcoming projects,
Letter to a Future Lover,

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coming out from Graywolf Press in 2015,

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and a baby that's due
early in November.

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Coming soon.

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Ander Monson.

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