WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:00.630 align:middle line:90% 00:00:00.630 --> 00:00:02.230 align:middle line:90% Thank you so much for having me. 00:00:02.230 --> 00:00:05.200 align:middle line:84% I'm so happy to be here with both of you. 00:00:05.200 --> 00:00:09.720 align:middle line:84% I have so much admiration for Vanessa and Raquel. 00:00:09.720 --> 00:00:14.250 align:middle line:84% One of my favorite readings ever at the market in Portland 00:00:14.250 --> 00:00:17.220 align:middle line:90% at AWP both of you read. 00:00:17.220 --> 00:00:19.020 align:middle line:84% Yeah, so one of my favorite things. 00:00:19.020 --> 00:00:20.520 align:middle line:90% I just think it's so incredible. 00:00:20.520 --> 00:00:22.620 align:middle line:84% I mean, the language is so precise, right? 00:00:22.620 --> 00:00:25.290 align:middle line:84% The intersection of social concerns and poetry, 00:00:25.290 --> 00:00:30.990 align:middle line:84% I think that something that once I have a really invested effort 00:00:30.990 --> 00:00:33.480 align:middle line:84% over years to collect work that is really directed 00:00:33.480 --> 00:00:38.040 align:middle line:84% towards this, at a time where there's an effort 00:00:38.040 --> 00:00:42.570 align:middle line:84% to erase social concern from poetry or to praise 00:00:42.570 --> 00:00:45.540 align:middle line:84% and uplift a poetry that is detached from politics 00:00:45.540 --> 00:00:47.470 align:middle line:90% and social concern. 00:00:47.470 --> 00:00:50.400 align:middle line:84% And so I think that's one of the many things 00:00:50.400 --> 00:00:52.770 align:middle line:84% about the effort at Art for Justice 00:00:52.770 --> 00:00:56.160 align:middle line:84% that is so inspiring and so exciting. 00:00:56.160 --> 00:00:59.280 align:middle line:84% And, again, to be here with incredible poets like Raquel 00:00:59.280 --> 00:01:01.800 align:middle line:90% and Vanessa, just yeah. 00:01:01.800 --> 00:01:03.510 align:middle line:90% So thank you. 00:01:03.510 --> 00:01:05.489 align:middle line:90% Thank you, again, for having me. 00:01:05.489 --> 00:01:08.520 align:middle line:84% So these poems, some of them actually 00:01:08.520 --> 00:01:10.590 align:middle line:84% came from that manuscript Literal Dope, 00:01:10.590 --> 00:01:11.520 align:middle line:90% and they were revised. 00:01:11.520 --> 00:01:15.150 align:middle line:84% And I've been finding a way of re approaching the work 00:01:15.150 --> 00:01:18.390 align:middle line:84% and trying to take it to where it needs to be before it comes 00:01:18.390 --> 00:01:19.900 align:middle line:90% out in the world. 00:01:19.900 --> 00:01:25.640 align:middle line:84% And so yeah, these are the poems from Literal Dope. 00:01:25.640 --> 00:01:26.780 align:middle line:90% "Trap." 00:01:26.780 --> 00:01:32.540 align:middle line:84% "Now one, a device or enclosure designed to catch and retain 00:01:32.540 --> 00:01:36.530 align:middle line:84% or to kill animals typically by allowing entry but not exit 00:01:36.530 --> 00:01:39.050 align:middle line:84% or by catching hold of a part of the body. 00:01:39.050 --> 00:01:41.600 align:middle line:84% See also cage, see also shackle, as 00:01:41.600 --> 00:01:43.670 align:middle line:84% in if an animal is caught in a trap, 00:01:43.670 --> 00:01:45.320 align:middle line:90% it will probably die there. 00:01:45.320 --> 00:01:47.960 align:middle line:84% Two, an unpleasant situation from which 00:01:47.960 --> 00:01:50.270 align:middle line:84% it is hard to escape, a trick by which 00:01:50.270 --> 00:01:53.030 align:middle line:84% someone is misled into acting contrary to their interests 00:01:53.030 --> 00:01:53.930 align:middle line:90% or intentions. 00:01:53.930 --> 00:01:57.590 align:middle line:84% See also respectability, see also masculinity, see also 00:01:57.590 --> 00:01:59.960 align:middle line:84% scarcity, see also white supremacy, 00:01:59.960 --> 00:02:03.140 align:middle line:84% as in even an exceptionally smart or strong animal 00:02:03.140 --> 00:02:06.800 align:middle line:84% can fall into a trap, as in genius is a trap. 00:02:06.800 --> 00:02:10.513 align:middle line:84% Three, residential areas with predominantly Black populations 00:02:10.513 --> 00:02:12.680 align:middle line:84% that have been historically impoverished and blocked 00:02:12.680 --> 00:02:15.560 align:middle line:84% from fair access to housing, educational resources, 00:02:15.560 --> 00:02:18.920 align:middle line:84% and jobs, redlined in HOLC maps, and disproportionately 00:02:18.920 --> 00:02:20.390 align:middle line:90% patrolled by law enforcement. 00:02:20.390 --> 00:02:22.640 align:middle line:84% See also ghetto, see also projects, 00:02:22.640 --> 00:02:26.300 align:middle line:84% see also hood, as in the trap is home to too much genius that 00:02:26.300 --> 00:02:27.950 align:middle line:90% will probably die there. 00:02:27.950 --> 00:02:29.060 align:middle line:90% Fourth. 00:02:29.060 --> 00:02:32.220 align:middle line:90% One, catch an animal in a trap. 00:02:32.220 --> 00:02:36.000 align:middle line:84% See also ambush, see also arrest, as in to trap, 00:02:36.000 --> 00:02:37.110 align:middle line:90% you need a victim. 00:02:37.110 --> 00:02:40.200 align:middle line:84% Two, prevent someone from escaping from a place. 00:02:40.200 --> 00:02:43.230 align:middle line:84% Have something typically a part of the body held tightly 00:02:43.230 --> 00:02:45.510 align:middle line:84% by something so that it cannot move or be freed. 00:02:45.510 --> 00:02:48.840 align:middle line:84% See also redline, see also jail, as in when 00:02:48.840 --> 00:02:51.420 align:middle line:84% you trap something, you are the god of its movements, 00:02:51.420 --> 00:02:54.330 align:middle line:84% as in a good trapper knows they need only trap 00:02:54.330 --> 00:02:57.150 align:middle line:84% a single limb, the foot, the arm, the mind, 00:02:57.150 --> 00:02:58.890 align:middle line:90% anything will suffice. 00:02:58.890 --> 00:03:03.390 align:middle line:84% Three, extralegal activities necessitated by lack of access 00:03:03.390 --> 00:03:06.390 align:middle line:84% to sustainable wages, fair housing, affordable education, 00:03:06.390 --> 00:03:07.080 align:middle line:90% and healthcare. 00:03:07.080 --> 00:03:11.520 align:middle line:84% See also slang, see also hustle, as in we trap in a trap 00:03:11.520 --> 00:03:13.400 align:middle line:90% because we trap.