Tyehimba Jess discusses his Pulitzer Prize-winning book, Olio (Wave Books, 2016). This talk was given March 4, 2018 in conjunction with Seattle Arts Lectures. Jess talks about the genesis and stories behind the poems in Olio, which revisits the biographies of African American creatives from the Civil War until WW1, including Scott Joplin, Blind Boone, Sissieretta Jones, Blind Tom, the Fisk Jubilee Singers, Edmonia Lewis, Henry Box Brown, and others, and provides an opportunity to discuss history, form, geometry, resistance, and resilience via this incredibly multifaceted work. Anastacia-Reneé joins him in conversation for the Q&A.