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There is a rumor going around
that some people attend poetry

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readings just for the cookies.

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We're going to have the
cookies after our next reader.

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Take a break, and then come
back for the other two.

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Now if I catch you going out
that door, you're in trouble.

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We also have books
for sale tonight.

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We are sorry that not all
the books came in in time.

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So we don't have a
representative of all the poets

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who are reading tonight
and tomorrow night.

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Our next reader
is Ross Talarico.

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He's published three
collections of poetry.

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Most recently, his book
coming out next month,

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Trying to Leave, Simple
Truths and Snow Fires.

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His work is in Contemporary
American Poetry,

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The Artist's Anthology
of New American Poetry,

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and various poetry magazines.

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He's an English faculty
at Loyola University,

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in Chicago, Ross Talarico.

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[APPLAUSE]

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