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Thank you Tyler.

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Thank you, all of you,
for coming out tonight,

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great to have you here.

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We're so thrilled that
James Hannaham is here.

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I just want to
mention to you some

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of our gratitude to
the Prose Series.

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As you all know, we work hard
to make this a vital community

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for all kinds of
literary pursuits.

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And the Poetry Center has its
beautiful track record, prose,

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we're always working it.

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And we want to
express our gratitude

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to the Department of English,
the College of Social

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and Behavioral Sciences
for their generosity

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in supporting this series.

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And also to the Poetry
Center, our beloved partners,

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who help us advertise
and also provide

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lodging for our
visitors, which is really

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a kind of coveted
and lovely gift.

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So our gratitude to you all,
our colleagues, for everything

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you do.

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I also want to mention
that there will be one more

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event in the Prose
Series this spring,

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that will be our
colleague Fenton

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Johnson launching his new
novel, The Man Who Loved Birds.

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And you'll see in
some of the earlier

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publicity he was scheduled to
read with our colleague, Julie

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Iromuanya.

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But Julie, because
her career is on fire,

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suddenly was invited to
work at Camargo, a writing

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colony in Southern France.

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And we said, oh well, OK.

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So Fenton will be reading
with Brian Blanchfield, who

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many of you know as
a poet and organizer

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of literary events in Tucson.

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And also now the author of what
our colleague, Kate Bernheimer,

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has described as his thrilling
new collection of prose,

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Proxies: Essays Near Knowing.

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So Fenton and Brian will
be reading on April 28th,

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so please join us
and pass the word

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to your friends and colleagues.

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I want to introduce my friend
and colleague, Susan Briante,

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who will be introducing
our reader tonight.

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And promised that I would
give her a plug, you should--

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we have such an amazing
community of writers.

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Her new book is just
out, a book of poetry

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called The Market Wonders.

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And yes, it is the
stock market who

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has come to life on her pages.

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So, Susan Briante,
thank you so much.

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So we welcome you up
to introduce our guest.

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[APPLAUSE]