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Tonight's reading.

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This reading is the Morgan
Lucas Schuldt Memorial Reading.

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The Morgan Lucas
Schuldt Reading features

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emerging and innovative
poets, and this event

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is presented annually as part
of the Poetry Center's reading

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and lecture series.

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It's underwritten
by a private donor,

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and it honors the memory of the
poet and publisher Morgan Lucas

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Schuldt, who lived from
February 1978 to January 2012.

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Morgan was the author of two
books of poetry, three poetry

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chapbooks, two
pamphlets, his poems

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appeared in more than 30
print and online journals.

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They were anthologized in
the Best New Poets 2007,

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The Bedside Guide
to No Tell Motel,

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and Prose Poetry, Flash
Fiction: An Anthology.

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We're so excited to have
Francine and Tarfia here

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tonight to continue in this
third iteration of this named

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reading series.

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Thank you guys so much for
coming and being with us.

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I will step down.

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I will introduce Hannah
Ensor who does the reading--

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who coordinates the
reading series for us.

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And as a program coordinator
at the Poetry Center

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she's going to
introduce our readers.

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Hannah Ensor.

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Thanks.