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Hello.

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Good evening.

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Welcome.

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Hello.

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I am Frances Sjoberg,
and I am happy to welcome

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all of the first year graduate
students who are here.

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I don't know how many of you are
first year graduate students,

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but welcome, and for
second years, welcome back.

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We're excited to have as our
first reading of the fall

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semester our summer
resident, Cody Walker, who

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happens to be here into August
because he was teaching up--

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finishing up a class he
was teaching at University

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of Washington.

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And so he's doing a
late summer residency.

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And we are very
fortunate because we're

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able to introduce him to
the MFA students here.

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I'll just give a brief
introduction to Cody.

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And then let him come up
and speak for himself.

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He teaches English,
as I mentioned,

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at the University of
Washington, and poetry as part

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of the Seattle Arts
and Lecturers' Writers

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in the Schools program.

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He was awarded the 2003 James
Boatwright III prize for poetry

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from Shenandoah.

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Are you saying Aw, pshaw, or--?

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No, no, no.

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We should have modest
business, you know.

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[INAUDIBLE]

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And his work has appeared or
is forthcoming in Best New Poet

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2005, Prairie Schooner,
Margie, Hayden's Ferry Review,

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Spinning Jenny, The Green City
Review, The Madison Review,

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Light, and elsewhere.

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His manuscript,
"Shuffle and Breakdown",

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was chosen as a 2005 finalist
for Waywiser Press' Anthony

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Hecht Poetry Prize, and
Margie/IntuiT House' First

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Poetry Book award.

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He is our judge for
the 2006 Hattie Lockett

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undergraduate awards.

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And he will also be
heading back up to Seattle

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after his resident
here-- residency here,

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to become the poet in residence
for the Richard Hugo House.

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Please welcome Cody Walker.

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Thank you.

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