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Thank you, Tyler.

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Thank you, Hannah.

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Thank you Poetry
Center for being

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such a great anchor in
the literary culture

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of this city in this school.

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We're always so grateful to
be a part of what you do.

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So I will be brief.

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But I do want to
acknowledge this

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is the last event of the
prose series for this year.

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I know some of you
were hoping to hear

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Julie Iromuanya, our brand
new fiction faculty member.

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And poor Julie had
a sudden invitation

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to go to Camargo
in Southern France

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to work on her next novel.

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So we said, "OK."

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But you will get to hear
Julie reading in the fall.

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And we were thrilled that this
opened an opportunity for us

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to invite Brian Blanchfield
into the series.

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A writer who's already
contributed so much

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to writing and to this
community and you'll

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hear more about that
with the introductions.

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I do want to mention
these wonderful broadsides

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one for each author,
made by Ander Monson

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and these are available gratis
to you, please pick one up.

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The authors will be more
than happy to sign them

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with a very fancy
silver felt, fat pen.

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It will be something you
will treasure surely.

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So the shape of the
evening is this.

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First, we will have
Brian Blanchfield

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and then we will
have Fenton Johnson

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and then we will have
celebration and book signing.

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Our introducers
tonight are two of

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our other beloved and
distinguished writers

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in this community.

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Introducing Brian
Blanchfield will

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be Ander Monson, the
extraordinary poet, fiction

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writer, essayist, editor,
publisher, maker of broadsides,

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and wearer of spectacular pants.

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He will be introducing Brian.

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And introducing Fenton,
an equally spectacular, if

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slightly more quietly
dressed Aurelie Sheehan.

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A beloved writer
of stories, novels,

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things that you can't
describe as either fiction

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or nonfiction.

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They're just dazzling to read.

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And also a great mythologizer
of Speedway Boulevard.

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If you haven't read that book.