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She doesn't like it when I call
her this, but Renee is my boss.

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I also think she is a boss.

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But I don't know if any
of you are lucky enough

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to have a poet for
a boss, but it's

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fascinating to watch her work.

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I think I figured something
out about her secret powers

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today when I was reading
one of the essays

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she wrote about Jem
and the Holograms.

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Yeah, check it out.

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Where she speaks of the
holographic mother, "Who

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is capable"-- this is a quote--

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"of pixelating and co-mingling
the five senses in order

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to braid us all back to
the mitochondrial DNA."

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I dare say that Renee may well
be pixelating and co-mingling

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the five senses in order
to braid us all back

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to the mitochondrial DNA, too.

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Sometimes she says things like,
I know two mimes in Tucson.

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And I think to myself, that must
just be the tip of the iceberg.

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You can find her
work in publications

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like Entropy Magazine, Western
Humanities Review, The Volta,

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DIAGRAM, Practice New Art
and Writing, Sonora Review,

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the anthology I'll
Drown My Book:

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Conceptual Writing by Women,
and in the chapbook "Lucy Design

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in the Papal Flea."

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She's the education programs
coordinator here at the Poetry

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Center, as well as an archivist
for the League of Holographic

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Music.

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Yeah.

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Her most recent book,
WoO, was recently

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released by Letter
Machine Press.

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It is, quote, "A creative
translation of the first 116

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pages of the Book of Mormon
that were lost by Joseph Smith."

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Wow, there's a lot of
great audience reactions.

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In a recent interview
she explains,

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"WoO is a feminist act.

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I see it as writing over
someone else's language.

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There's a destruction
inherent in that recovery."

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Please help me
welcome Renee Angle.

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[APPLAUSE]

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