the supporters like you are dedicated sponsors in the national endowment for the humidity, the national endowment for the art, tennessee arts commission, the metro national arts commission, dollar general and the literacy foundation and they did amazing job with great articles. you can purchase any of these books as well. we are very excited to bring this to you and youtube website you can go to the online store the festival website to purchase the merchandise or donate and we thank you. this afternoon i am delighted to introduce you to three very talented authors brian, anjali and nicole perkins. here they are, together in their collective essay they are going to share with us their stories in moving, each of those are so talented and i want to introduce each of them in a little bit of background and we love each of them talk briefly about their books and we will head into conversation so the authors and we can dialogue with each other. brian who is a poet and a free rider, i've had a chance to look through them. in the storytelling competition in the grand prize in the martin luther king writing award he w

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