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🗓️ 27 December 2024
⏱️ 68 minutes
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0:00.0 | So Rebecca, you want to read a poem. |
0:03.2 | Yeah. |
0:04.0 | So I always think when I come on here, what's something I can say that can inspire or can remind you of something you might have forgotten or introduce you to something that you might not know about. |
0:16.9 | So the poet, Nikki Giovanni, died two nights, days ago. She was 81 years old, lived an amazing life, |
0:25.2 | black, lesbian, butch poet. One of her claims to fame is that she was a poetry teacher at |
0:32.9 | Virginia Tech, and the Virginia Tech shooter was in her class. And from his work, she alerted the administration |
0:42.1 | and said, something's really wrong with this person. You need to have eyes on this person. And they |
0:46.8 | didn't listen because she was a poet. And there's a super powerful interview with her after that. |
0:55.5 | Also, one of my favorite clips of her is she was on Deaf Poetry Jam. |
0:59.6 | Do you remember that show? |
1:01.3 | And, you know, that's like a show, like young people were on that show, right? |
1:04.5 | It's like kind of a poetry spit kind of thing. |
1:07.3 | And she just comes on in a suit and tie and fucking just knocks everyone out of the water. |
1:15.6 | It's just like her power was really intense. |
1:19.0 | So I got to see her in New York, late 90s or early 2000. |
1:23.8 | She did a double bill with Walter Mosley who who wrote Devil in the Red Dress. Like, |
1:29.1 | it was like the most powerful double bill. I think it was at like the New York Library or something. |
1:33.4 | It was just the two heavy hitters. So I'm going to try and read this poem. I'm not going to do it |
1:40.2 | any justice, but it really touches on the work that we do here. So she was born in |
1:48.7 | 1943 and died just two days ago in 2004. It's called a journey. It's a journey that I propose, |
2:00.2 | and I am not the guide, nor technical assistance. I will be your |
2:05.3 | fellow passenger. Though the rail has been ridden, winter clouds cover, autumn's exuberant |
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