Glad everyone is here.
My name is Tyler Meier.
I work as the director here at the Poetry Center.
So great to have such a great crowd on this first Prose
Series reading, a collaboration between the Poetry Center
and the creative writing program in the Department of English,
here at the University of Arizona.
So grateful to have all of you here.
Thanks for coming out for this event
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There are lots of things to applaud for, and one of them--
or two of them are these broadsides.
Many of you have these already, some of you
maybe didn't get them yet, and these are free.
There's a broadside for each of our readers tonight,
and there's quotes from their books.
They're designed by the New Michigan Press and Ander
Monson, who I'll welcome up here in a minute,
and they're gifts for all of you.
Please help me welcome the chair of creative writing, Ander
Monson.
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