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Welcome.

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Thank you for
being here tonight.

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I'm Manuel Muñoz.

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I am the director of the Prose
Series this academic year.

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I want to thank you for
being here back in September

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for Venita Blackburn.

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Tonight, for our guest--

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before I ask Kevin Mosby to
come up and introduce our guest,

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I also just want
to say thank you

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to the Department of English,
Program of Creative Writing,

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and especially this time
around, Poets and Writers,

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who came through with a grant to
help us bring James to campus.

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So I want to really thank them
and remind you that in January,

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we have Nicole Walker coming
from Flagstaff to visit,

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and of course, Cherríe
Moraga in April.

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But enough with that.

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I'm going to come over to Kevin,
who will introduce our guest.