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Poet & Activist
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In 2017, Tuli Kaplin staged a 72-hour poetry vigil outside the federal courthouse in Portland after the sentencing of Indigenous water protectors at Standing Rock, reading aloud from hand-stitched chapbooks while live-streaming translations of Lakota oral histories into free verse. Their work doesn’t just reference the Beat ethos, it retools it: rejecting spontaneous abstraction in favor of durational witness, where meter is calibrated to breath-hold limits during protest arrests and line breaks echo police radio static. Kaplin’s 2021 collection *Curb Cut Sonnets* was composed entirely on sidewalks marked with ADA ramps, each poem’s structure mirroring the physical geometry of access and exclusion. They co-founded the Street Syntax Collective, training incarcerated writers to convert legal transcripts into spoken-word scores, and their annotations of Ginsberg’s ‘Howl’ rewrite the ‘best minds’ as undocumented laborers, gig workers, and trans youth navigating shelter waitlists. This isn’t nostalgia for rebellion; it’s forensic poetics applied to present-day infrastructure.
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- “How did you adapt Kerouac’s 'spontaneous bop prosody' for courtroom testimony?”
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