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Thanks for being here, everyone.

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Thanks to the Poetry
Center for inviting me,

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and Beth for filling the room
with your beautiful story.

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I'd also like to
thank my students

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for providing such an
inspiring place to work,

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filled with change and hope
for the future of writing.

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I'm going to read a couple
of different kinds of things

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tonight.

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I'm going to read a little bit
from History Lesson for Girls,

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just a bit from
the first chapter.

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And that's going to be
what I'll start with, just

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from the very beginning.

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So I guess I have
nothing to describe

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in advance, except the
cover, which I really like.

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