![]() I have this white, good-looking education. ![]() So, I have this trained and familial lineage of elocution. I went to a mostly white boarding school in Connecticut and then to Tufts. That’s not a good or bad thing it’s just a statement of fact. Because of the way integration happened in our schools, Southern Californians across race have a more uniform dialect. For example, your poem “Infinite Monkey Theorem” engages with the ways that certain kinds of speech are produced, (dis)credited, and (dis)allowed in various spaces.Įlocution has been something that I’ve always had in my family. An excerpt from their recent conversation at the Los Angeles Review of Books:Īlongside documenting your body, your work also charts negotiations with the terms of visibility. ![]() Claire Schwartz interviews poet and 2017 Lambda Literary Fellow jayy dodd, author of, most recently, (Pizza Pi Press, 2016), Mannish Tongues (Platypus Press, 2017), and The Black Condition ft. ![]()
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