WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:03.450 align:middle line:84% So now, we're going to take a few questions, 00:00:03.450 --> 00:00:05.550 align:middle line:90% if you'd like to. 00:00:05.550 --> 00:00:06.630 align:middle line:90% Oh, already. 00:00:06.630 --> 00:00:07.660 align:middle line:90% Wow. 00:00:07.660 --> 00:00:08.160 align:middle line:90% OK. 00:00:08.160 --> 00:00:13.583 align:middle line:90% 00:00:13.583 --> 00:00:17.860 align:middle line:84% Was the woman on Martha's Vineyard saving the Wampanoag 00:00:17.860 --> 00:00:18.460 align:middle line:90% language? 00:00:18.460 --> 00:00:19.330 align:middle line:90% Yes. 00:00:19.330 --> 00:00:24.550 align:middle line:84% I was a guest of hers, and she took me to the ocean. 00:00:24.550 --> 00:00:42.680 align:middle line:90% 00:00:42.680 --> 00:00:46.244 align:middle line:84% The poem you shared on the bodies of water is there like 00:00:46.244 --> 00:00:48.020 align:middle line:90% a--is there-- 00:00:48.020 --> 00:00:50.120 align:middle line:84% All these times you're visiting them, 00:00:50.120 --> 00:00:56.610 align:middle line:84% is there a universal connection, would you say, about the water? 00:00:56.610 --> 00:00:59.130 align:middle line:90% The different types of water? 00:00:59.130 --> 00:01:00.840 align:middle line:90% Like streams and oceans? 00:01:00.840 --> 00:01:04.050 align:middle line:90% For me, or in general? 00:01:04.050 --> 00:01:11.340 align:middle line:84% Well, for me, I always find any surface water just-- 00:01:11.340 --> 00:01:16.800 align:middle line:84% it was just amazing to see even a small stream 00:01:16.800 --> 00:01:22.200 align:middle line:84% or a pond or a lake just because of where we grew up. 00:01:22.200 --> 00:01:23.970 align:middle line:90% That's a rare sight. 00:01:23.970 --> 00:01:34.230 align:middle line:84% So surface water, to me, is just exciting at any time. 00:01:34.230 --> 00:01:36.960 align:middle line:84% But the big waters, those to me are-- 00:01:36.960 --> 00:01:39.360 align:middle line:90% because they're just huge. 00:01:39.360 --> 00:01:42.120 align:middle line:84% I would like to see the Great Lakes someday. 00:01:42.120 --> 00:01:45.390 align:middle line:84% I don't think I've ever seen the Great Lakes. 00:01:45.390 --> 00:01:50.310 align:middle line:84% But I'm glad that I've seen the Atlantic and the Pacific. 00:01:50.310 --> 00:01:54.750 align:middle line:90% Those are new to me. 00:01:54.750 --> 00:02:01.087 align:middle line:84% It's always almost a religious experience 00:02:01.087 --> 00:02:02.670 align:middle line:84% when I go to the ocean, because that's 00:02:02.670 --> 00:02:04.860 align:middle line:90% what it's supposed to be first. 00:02:04.860 --> 00:02:07.120 align:middle line:90% And then you can have fun in it. 00:02:07.120 --> 00:02:10.199 align:middle line:84% So those are a different type of experience. 00:02:10.199 --> 00:02:15.570 align:middle line:84% But any surface water is, to me, always exciting. 00:02:15.570 --> 00:02:19.650 align:middle line:84% The irrigation ditches, though, don't do that. 00:02:19.650 --> 00:02:22.800 align:middle line:90% [LAUGHTER] 00:02:22.800 --> 00:02:24.510 align:middle line:84% Thank you for your question, Skye. 00:02:24.510 --> 00:02:41.740 align:middle line:90% 00:02:41.740 --> 00:02:44.680 align:middle line:84% Can you talk a little bit about how you write poems? 00:02:44.680 --> 00:02:48.760 align:middle line:84% Do you spend a long time thinking about the same images, 00:02:48.760 --> 00:02:51.340 align:middle line:84% or do you write them all at once? 00:02:51.340 --> 00:02:53.450 align:middle line:84% Just because you do so many different things. 00:02:53.450 --> 00:02:56.320 align:middle line:84% How do you get poems in there, too? 00:02:56.320 --> 00:02:57.550 align:middle line:90% Yeah. 00:02:57.550 --> 00:03:06.190 align:middle line:84% Yeah, it does take me quite a while to get pieces done. 00:03:06.190 --> 00:03:08.350 align:middle line:84% I carry them around for a long time. 00:03:08.350 --> 00:03:13.390 align:middle line:84% I was just telling a class earlier this week 00:03:13.390 --> 00:03:15.670 align:middle line:90% that I find that I-- 00:03:15.670 --> 00:03:18.790 align:middle line:84% because they sort of asked me the same type of question. 00:03:18.790 --> 00:03:26.450 align:middle line:84% I find that I observe things carefully, 00:03:26.450 --> 00:03:32.830 align:middle line:90% and I hold on to those images. 00:03:32.830 --> 00:03:35.710 align:middle line:84% Most of the time, I don't write them down. 00:03:35.710 --> 00:03:37.000 align:middle line:90% I tried that. 00:03:37.000 --> 00:03:39.980 align:middle line:90% I try writing them down. 00:03:39.980 --> 00:03:44.090 align:middle line:84% But it always turns out that I forget where I wrote it down. 00:03:44.090 --> 00:03:46.930 align:middle line:84% So if I put it somewhere in my memory, 00:03:46.930 --> 00:03:49.280 align:middle line:84% I can eventually pull it back up. 00:03:49.280 --> 00:03:52.060 align:middle line:84% So I'll carry things, information like that, 00:03:52.060 --> 00:03:53.500 align:middle line:90% around for a long time. 00:03:53.500 --> 00:03:58.480 align:middle line:84% And then at some point, I'll start pulling it forward. 00:03:58.480 --> 00:04:04.690 align:middle line:84% Actually, I do a lot of the creation 00:04:04.690 --> 00:04:09.100 align:middle line:84% and the formation of things just in my head, 00:04:09.100 --> 00:04:12.460 align:middle line:84% and I go through that process for quite a while 00:04:12.460 --> 00:04:16.060 align:middle line:90% before I'll put it on paper. 00:04:16.060 --> 00:04:19.300 align:middle line:90% And I always write longhand. 00:04:19.300 --> 00:04:21.790 align:middle line:84% And that's why I end up with lots of notebooks, 00:04:21.790 --> 00:04:27.430 align:middle line:84% too, because I start that way before I type it 00:04:27.430 --> 00:04:29.620 align:middle line:90% or anything like that. 00:04:29.620 --> 00:04:32.710 align:middle line:90% So sort of the long answer. 00:04:32.710 --> 00:04:37.330 align:middle line:84% It does take me quite a while to get a work done, or even just 00:04:37.330 --> 00:04:38.820 align:middle line:90% one piece done. 00:04:38.820 --> 00:04:39.610 align:middle line:90% Yeah. 00:04:39.610 --> 00:04:41.193 align:middle line:90% Thank you for your question. 00:04:41.193 --> 00:04:42.610 align:middle line:84% I think we have time for one more. 00:04:42.610 --> 00:04:47.230 align:middle line:90% 00:04:47.230 --> 00:04:49.060 align:middle line:84% As a linguistics student, I didn't 00:04:49.060 --> 00:04:50.390 align:middle line:90% catch the linguistics joke. 00:04:50.390 --> 00:04:53.132 align:middle line:90% [LAUGHTER] 00:04:53.132 --> 00:04:54.050 align:middle line:90% 00:04:54.050 --> 00:04:57.280 align:middle line:90% How is the lighthouse keeping? 00:04:57.280 --> 00:05:00.340 align:middle line:84% Lighthouse keeping, or light housekeeping? 00:05:00.340 --> 00:05:04.108 align:middle line:90% [LAUGHTER] 00:05:04.108 --> 00:05:05.050 align:middle line:90% 00:05:05.050 --> 00:05:07.130 align:middle line:84% Well, that seems like a great note to end on. 00:05:07.130 --> 00:05:08.600 align:middle line:90% [LAUGHTER] 00:05:08.600 --> 00:05:09.100 align:middle line:90% OK. 00:05:09.100 --> 00:05:09.340 align:middle line:90% Yeah. 00:05:09.340 --> 00:05:10.548 align:middle line:90% Thank you all for coming out. 00:05:10.548 --> 00:05:12.760 align:middle line:84% There are books and posters for sale. 00:05:12.760 --> 00:05:16.660 align:middle line:84% So if you can afford-- if you're afforded to afford them, 00:05:16.660 --> 00:05:19.270 align:middle line:90% why not? 00:05:19.270 --> 00:05:23.470 align:middle line:84% And we will be here to sign books, answer questions, maybe 00:05:23.470 --> 00:05:25.375 align:middle line:90% talk, I don't know. 00:05:25.375 --> 00:05:28.000 align:middle line:84% So yeah, I think we should give her one more round of applause. 00:05:28.000 --> 00:05:31.350 align:middle line:90% [APPLAUSE] 00:05:31.350 --> 00:05:37.000 align:middle line:90%