In this episode, Alyssa and Vanessa discuss some of their favorite poetry collections.
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Media Mentioned:
“Teen Writers Deserve Better Than the Teen Writing Scene” by Amanda Silberling (Electric Literature)
“Why Do I Write in My Colonizers’ Language?” by Anandi Mishra (Electric Literature)
The Burning God by R.F. Kuang, performed by Emily Woo Zeller (HarperCollins Audio)
CN: Violence (wartime & against women), rape, drug & alcohol use, drug addiction (opium), & cannibalism
“Visible Invisibility: The Ghostly Nature of Queer-Reading” by Miachel Elias (Catapult Magazine)
A Cruelty Special to Our Species: Poems by Emily Jungmin Yoon (HarperCollins)
CN: Violence (wartime & against women), state-sanctioned violence, & rape
A House Made of Water by Michelle Lin (Sibling Rivalry Press)
American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin by Terrance Hayes (Penguin Poets)
CN: Racism (anti-Black), slavery, police brutality, sexual content
Autobiography of Red by Anne Carson (Vintage)
CN: Sexual abuse, drug/alcohol use, violence, sexual content
Calling a Wolf a Wolf by Kaveh Akbar (Alice James Books)
CN: Alcohol addiction
Homie by Danez Smith (Graywolf Press)
i shimmer sometimes, too by Porsha Olayiwola (Button Poetry)
Soft Science by Franny Choi (Alice James Books)
Trickster Feminism by Anne Waldman (Penguin Poets)
CN: Colonialism, racism, state-sanctioned violence, violence against women
When My Brother Was an Aztec by Natalie Díaz (Copper Canyon Press)
CN: State-sanctioned violence, racism (anti-Indigenous), addiction, terrorism, sexual content
“How the Pandemic Changed the Way We Read” by Joumana Khatib (The New York Times)
“Your Book Might Not Sell, and You Have to Live with That” by Abigail Rasminsky (Electric Literature)
