Ep 163: How Racist Is Creative Writing?, ft. Alexis Sears & Joanna Pearson
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Some of the topics mentioned in this episode:
– Out of Order by Alexis Sears
– Bright and Tender Dark by Joanna Pearson
– When Defending Your Writing Becomes Defending Yourself by Matthew Salesses
– Self-Portrait of the Artist as an Ungrateful Black Writer by Saeed Jones
– Ethan’s excellent graphs of the last 10 winners of 10 big poetry prizes
– Send your literary conference blind items to SLEERICKETS [at] GMAIL [dot] COM !
– Secret Show Ep 94. Who’s Winning the Poetry Prizes?
– The Most Precious Substance on Earth by Shashi Bhat
– MFA vs. POC by Junot Diaz
– The Humpty Dance by Digital Underground
– There There by Tommy Orange
– VIDA: Women in Literary Arts
– SLEERICKETS Ep 5: Ars Foetica
– Widespread Bias Found in Home Appraisals by Debra Kamin
– Sherman Alexie’s introduction to the 2015 Best American Poetry
– Citizen by Claudia Rankine
– Heartbreak Ghazal by Alexis Sears
– Do ghazals work in English? by Victoria Moul
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