WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:02.010 align:middle line:90% [APPLAUSE] 00:00:02.010 --> 00:00:02.510 align:middle line:90% Wow. 00:00:02.510 --> 00:00:05.450 align:middle line:90% 00:00:05.450 --> 00:00:07.190 align:middle line:90% Oh, thank you. 00:00:07.190 --> 00:00:10.880 align:middle line:90% Hannah, you do so much. 00:00:10.880 --> 00:00:14.250 align:middle line:84% You say, like, who is God's administrator? 00:00:14.250 --> 00:00:17.220 align:middle line:90% You think God does all the work? 00:00:17.220 --> 00:00:18.740 align:middle line:84% So that's what I think, like, OK. 00:00:18.740 --> 00:00:22.760 align:middle line:84% Whoever God's administrator is, they learn from you. 00:00:22.760 --> 00:00:25.070 align:middle line:84% So he's got to have a Secretary or something, somebody 00:00:25.070 --> 00:00:27.530 align:middle line:84% to turn the lights on, somebody to tell him 00:00:27.530 --> 00:00:29.970 align:middle line:90% what he's got to do next week. 00:00:29.970 --> 00:00:31.407 align:middle line:90% So thank you. 00:00:31.407 --> 00:00:32.990 align:middle line:84% So anyway, yeah, it's good to be here. 00:00:32.990 --> 00:00:35.930 align:middle line:84% Tyler, everybody, thanks for bringing me good food, 00:00:35.930 --> 00:00:38.780 align:middle line:90% Arizona's cool. 00:00:38.780 --> 00:00:41.630 align:middle line:84% But let me get started, all right, because I'll just-- 00:00:41.630 --> 00:00:43.670 align:middle line:84% believe me, when I-- oh, it's 7:13 too, 00:00:43.670 --> 00:00:46.710 align:middle line:90% which is always a good sign. 00:00:46.710 --> 00:00:47.210 align:middle line:90% All right. 00:00:47.210 --> 00:00:50.630 align:middle line:84% So spectacle, they said like craft talk, 00:00:50.630 --> 00:00:51.590 align:middle line:90% which maybe scares you. 00:00:51.590 --> 00:00:54.200 align:middle line:84% But it's not a normal craft talk. 00:00:54.200 --> 00:00:59.780 align:middle line:84% What I will say is I first began just to look back over my work 00:00:59.780 --> 00:01:03.740 align:middle line:84% and think about what comes to mind. 00:01:03.740 --> 00:01:05.310 align:middle line:84% I thought first about spectacles. 00:01:05.310 --> 00:01:07.310 align:middle line:84% I'm sure the other folks are going to make jokes 00:01:07.310 --> 00:01:09.500 align:middle line:90% about glasses, too. 00:01:09.500 --> 00:01:16.010 align:middle line:84% But what I realize is the amount of violence across my poems. 00:01:16.010 --> 00:01:18.110 align:middle line:84% So spectacle gives me a way to make it sound more 00:01:18.110 --> 00:01:21.140 align:middle line:90% serious than Freudian, maybe. 00:01:21.140 --> 00:01:23.240 align:middle line:90% So I thought OK, yeah. 00:01:23.240 --> 00:01:25.910 align:middle line:84% What I have for you for a little bit 00:01:25.910 --> 00:01:29.100 align:middle line:84% are poems connecting up that question. 00:01:29.100 --> 00:01:32.420 align:middle line:84% And so, what I really think is it's 00:01:32.420 --> 00:01:37.010 align:middle line:84% a fairly limited category for what spectacle 00:01:37.010 --> 00:01:38.023 align:middle line:90% might be interested in. 00:01:38.023 --> 00:01:38.940 align:middle line:90% I think it's violence. 00:01:38.940 --> 00:01:41.390 align:middle line:90% And I think it's sex, really. 00:01:41.390 --> 00:01:43.220 align:middle line:90% I don't know what else. 00:01:43.220 --> 00:01:45.050 align:middle line:84% So speaking of sex, that's so funny. 00:01:45.050 --> 00:01:47.960 align:middle line:84% Because I'm not on Twitter, I'm also not on Facebook. 00:01:47.960 --> 00:01:50.480 align:middle line:84% But it still gets back to me, because I have a 16-year-old. 00:01:50.480 --> 00:01:53.750 align:middle line:84% So y'all know about Amber Rose, only the undergrads are going 00:01:53.750 --> 00:01:56.540 align:middle line:84% to know, and then what was trending about Kanye West. 00:01:56.540 --> 00:01:58.440 align:middle line:90% Not really just undergrads. 00:01:58.440 --> 00:02:01.310 align:middle line:84% And I can't-- only undergrads, some undergrads? 00:02:01.310 --> 00:02:02.377 align:middle line:90% Some are 65-year-olds. 00:02:02.377 --> 00:02:04.460 align:middle line:84% Oh, so you know what I'm talking about, too, then? 00:02:04.460 --> 00:02:06.168 align:middle line:84% Well, that means you're a pervert, right? 00:02:06.168 --> 00:02:07.192 align:middle line:90% [LAUGHTER] 00:02:07.192 --> 00:02:09.650 align:middle line:84% Because if you're not undergrad, you know, you're learning. 00:02:09.650 --> 00:02:13.010 align:middle line:84% But if you're over 40, you're a pervert. 00:02:13.010 --> 00:02:15.330 align:middle line:84% Because I thought what's wrong with that? 00:02:15.330 --> 00:02:17.052 align:middle line:84% And why is he embarrassed at Amber Rose, 00:02:17.052 --> 00:02:19.634 align:middle line:90% who he says that he liked? 00:02:19.634 --> 00:02:23.120 align:middle line:90% [LAUGHTER] 00:02:23.120 --> 00:02:25.520 align:middle line:84% Anyway, OK, well, that only makes sense if you know. 00:02:25.520 --> 00:02:27.260 align:middle line:84% All right, but otherwise, because I'm 00:02:27.260 --> 00:02:33.650 align:middle line:84% talking about violence, I don't really read backwards. 00:02:33.650 --> 00:02:36.990 align:middle line:84% I mostly just read the book and new stuff. 00:02:36.990 --> 00:02:38.900 align:middle line:84% And I'm trying to lead into a new poem 00:02:38.900 --> 00:02:40.848 align:middle line:84% if I get all this other stuff out of the way. 00:02:40.848 --> 00:02:42.890 align:middle line:84% So it was interesting to look backwards and think 00:02:42.890 --> 00:02:47.060 align:middle line:84% about, again, this spectacle of violence across the poems. 00:02:47.060 --> 00:02:50.450 align:middle line:84% And so then, I saw this poem, "Woman Walking 00:02:50.450 --> 00:02:52.100 align:middle line:84% on the Road," which I probably have not 00:02:52.100 --> 00:02:56.060 align:middle line:90% read in at least a decade. 00:02:56.060 --> 00:02:57.655 align:middle line:84% And it's not an easy poem to read. 00:02:57.655 --> 00:02:59.780 align:middle line:84% So I was thinking, what will it mean for my reading 00:02:59.780 --> 00:03:00.590 align:middle line:90% to start with this? 00:03:00.590 --> 00:03:03.280 align:middle line:84% Because I usually try to disarm people. 00:03:03.280 --> 00:03:05.310 align:middle line:84% We start with a few funny things. 00:03:05.310 --> 00:03:09.080 align:middle line:84% But to me, this is a poem that's a fairly serious one. 00:03:09.080 --> 00:03:11.480 align:middle line:90% So it's from the first book. 00:03:11.480 --> 00:03:14.540 align:middle line:84% And what I'll say as I lead into the thing 00:03:14.540 --> 00:03:16.610 align:middle line:84% that I'm thinking about right now 00:03:16.610 --> 00:03:22.190 align:middle line:84% is the two sides of spectacle, which is to bear witness to it, 00:03:22.190 --> 00:03:26.370 align:middle line:84% and then to be inside it, to be the one who sees violence, 00:03:26.370 --> 00:03:29.420 align:middle line:84% and then there will be one who has violence acted upon them, 00:03:29.420 --> 00:03:32.890 align:middle line:84% or even to be the person who's performing the violence. 00:03:32.890 --> 00:03:35.360 align:middle line:84% So I think a lot of these earlier poems 00:03:35.360 --> 00:03:37.790 align:middle line:84% are really about that, about seeing it. 00:03:37.790 --> 00:03:41.410 align:middle line:84% Although in this poem, it's straddling that line.