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I'll keep this brief.

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Thank you for coming out.

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It's really awesome
to see you all.

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I wanted to add that
Ander Monson was also

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my guide in organizing DVS,
which I'll do for next year.

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Yeah, I just want to
introduce the readers

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and get out of your way.

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And thank you, Michael.

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I feel your presence.

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I'm so glad you're here
among us, somewhere.

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So Michael Wasson is the author
of This American Ghost from

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YesYes Books, 2017-- winner of
the Vinyl 45 Chapbook prize,

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and Swaddled Light, out
with Copper Canyon Press--

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2022.

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His honors include
a Ruth Lilly--

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excuse me, and Dorothy Sergeant
Rosenberg Poetry Fellow,

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and a Native Arts and Cultures
Foundation National Artist

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Fellow in literature.

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He is nimiipuu from the Nez
Perce reservation in Idaho.

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Wasson's work witnesses
state-sanctioned violence,

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the colonial legacy of
erasure, and the voids

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left when one is left
vulnerable and overcome.

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His poems illuminate
with honesty,

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patiently contemplating
their imagery and subjects.

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I'm just going to go ahead
and introduce Jennifer

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as well so we can just
roll through with poetry.

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Jennifer Elise
Foerster is the author

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of three books of poetry--

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Leaving Tulsa, which is out
with Sun Tracks in 2013,

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Bright Raft in the
Afterweather-- also

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Sun Tracks, 2018,
and most recently,

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The Maybe-Bird from The Song
Cave that came out last year.

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She's also the recipient
of an NEA Creative Writing

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Fellowship, a Lannan
Foundation Writing Residency

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Fellowship, and
a Wallace Stegner

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Fellow in poetry at Stanford.

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She lives in San Francisco.

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Foerster's work is
ever-changing and exploratory.

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Each of her poetry collections
presents a strong and deft

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poetics.

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Ever lyrical and
polyglot, her poems

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show us the Muskogee
thought, history,

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and language at the center of
the US's violent and amnesiac

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past.

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So please welcome Michael Wasson
and then Jennifer Foerster.

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