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Hi, everyone, welcome.

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It's great to see everybody.

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This is the first event in the
UA Prose Series for this year.

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So we're very, very excited
and glad to have two MFA

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alums from here, Antonya
Nelson and Robert Boswell

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here to start us off, woo.

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[APPLAUSE]

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It's exciting to have that
kind of old home week.

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But it's also just--

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they are just amazing writers.

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And so we feel very
lucky to have them here.

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And I've extracted things from
them, right and left, questions

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and answers and interviews,
and now our reading.

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So I'm grateful for your coming
up here and doing this for us.

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So thanks.

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Thank you everyone
for being here.

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I want to really thank
the Poetry Center.

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And all of you guys
are so wonderful

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and saved my butt so frequently.

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It's kind of amazing.

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So I really appreciate it.

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And I-- this place
is very inspiring.

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Thanks to the
Department of English,

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and the College of
Humanities as well,

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for supporting the series.

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Afterward, we're going
to have books for sale.

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And the authors will be happy
to sign some books for you.

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So please stick around.

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We also have the traditional
lemonade and carrot cake.

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So we're going to have
our introducers now.

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Are you-- OK.

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Elizabeth Evans is going
to introduce Ms. Nelson.

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[APPLAUSE]

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