She doesn't like it when I call her this, but Renee is my boss.
I also think she is a boss.
But I don't know if any of you are lucky enough
to have a poet for a boss, but it's
fascinating to watch her work.
I think I figured something out about her secret powers
today when I was reading one of the essays
she wrote about Jem and the Holograms.
Yeah, check it out.
Where she speaks of the holographic mother, "Who
is capable"-- this is a quote--
"of pixelating and co-mingling the five senses in order
to braid us all back to the mitochondrial DNA."
I dare say that Renee may well be pixelating and co-mingling
the five senses in order to braid us all back
to the mitochondrial DNA, too.
Sometimes she says things like, I know two mimes in Tucson.
And I think to myself, that must just be the tip of the iceberg.
You can find her work in publications
like Entropy Magazine, Western Humanities Review, The Volta,
DIAGRAM, Practice New Art and Writing, Sonora Review,
the anthology I'll Drown My Book:
Conceptual Writing by Women, and in the chapbook "Lucy Design
in the Papal Flea."
She's the education programs coordinator here at the Poetry
Center, as well as an archivist for the League of Holographic
Music.
Yeah.
Her most recent book, WoO, was recently
released by Letter Machine Press.
It is, quote, "A creative translation of the first 116
pages of the Book of Mormon that were lost by Joseph Smith."
Wow, there's a lot of great audience reactions.
In a recent interview she explains,
"WoO is a feminist act.
I see it as writing over someone else's language.
There's a destruction inherent in that recovery."
Please help me welcome Renee Angle.
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