Hi, everyone, welcome.
It's great to see everybody.
This is the first event in the UA Prose Series for this year.
So we're very, very excited and glad to have two MFA
alums from here, Antonya Nelson and Robert Boswell
here to start us off, woo.
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It's exciting to have that kind of old home week.
But it's also just--
they are just amazing writers.
And so we feel very lucky to have them here.
And I've extracted things from them, right and left, questions
and answers and interviews, and now our reading.
So I'm grateful for your coming up here and doing this for us.
So thanks.
Thank you everyone for being here.
I want to really thank the Poetry Center.
And all of you guys are so wonderful
and saved my butt so frequently.
It's kind of amazing.
So I really appreciate it.
And I-- this place is very inspiring.
Thanks to the Department of English,
and the College of Humanities as well,
for supporting the series.
Afterward, we're going to have books for sale.
And the authors will be happy to sign some books for you.
So please stick around.
We also have the traditional lemonade and carrot cake.
So we're going to have our introducers now.
Are you-- OK.
Elizabeth Evans is going to introduce Ms. Nelson.
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