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I'm Ander Monson.

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I'm the director of the Prose
Series and the MFA program

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here at the
University of Arizona.

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And I'm happy that we don't have
to do a pre-pre-introduction.

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But thank you so much to the
Poetry Center for hosting us

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tonight, and for you
all for coming out,

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for Poets and
Writers who's helping

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to co-sponsor this event
tonight, as well as the MFA

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program in creative
writing, College

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of Social and
Behavioral Sciences,

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the English department,
and Chevron.

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I made up the Chevron.

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But if Chevron would like to get
involved in a sponsorship role,

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we'd be happy to have them.

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So first I'm here
to pre-introduce,

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first we're going to have
Kristen Radtke as introduced

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by Miranda Trimmier.

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And the second we'll have
Charles Yu as introduced

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by Emilio Carrero.

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We will have a Q
and A afterwards,

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so you can think
of your questions

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if you'd like answers.

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And I'm really happy to have
so many people here tonight.

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It's very exciting to be amongst
lovers of excellent writing,

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and these are two of my
favorite writers working today.