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Thank you so much, Eric.

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We're going to skip a Q and A
afterwards, but we do want to--

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Kim is excited to
talk to all of you.

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And so what we
encourage you to do

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is use the money that you
brought with you to buy books

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and then come up and
have them sign by Kim

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and you'll have a chance to
interact and talk and learn more

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about the work that she
does, both as a poet

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and as a literary
citizen broadly.

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But it's my pleasure to
welcome up a colleague here

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at the University of Arizona
campus, Elizabeth Wilder, who

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is an assistant editor at the
University of Arizona Press

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and the editor of Kimberly
Blaeser's Ancient Light-- book

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that I mentioned earlier.

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Elizabeth oversees two
of the press's award

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winning imprints, the Camino Del
Sol series, and the Sun Tracks

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series.

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And it's really
hard to overstate

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how important these series
have been for Latinx voices

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and for Indigenous
voices and for the way

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that the U of A Press was
an early and ongoing home

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for writers operating
in these identities

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and making a space for their
work for a reading public.

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And so we're really,
really thrilled

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to be in collaboration also with
the University of Arizona Press.

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And I want to welcome
up Elizabeth Wilder

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to introduce Kim Blaeser.

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