*Error in episode: compulsory heteronormativity comes from the term, "compulsory heterosexuality," coined by Adrienne Rich, not Audre Lorde.
YouTube Edition: (https://youtu.be/YoaYkLzMlBI) or (bit.ly/JacksonNeal1).
Youth Poet Laureate in Houston, TX, Jackson Neal — in the running for title of National Youth Poet Laureate — discusses drag poetics, haunting as queer method for healing, trans poetics, Diana Khoi Nguyen’s “Ghost Of,” Pabllo Vittar, and so much more. This is part of a longer collaboration in the month of March with Urban Word NYC (urbanwordnyc.org) and The National Youth Poet Laureate Program (youthlaureate.org) with Dr. Camea Davis (cameadavis.com).
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More on Jackson Neal -- Jackson Neal is a freshman at the University of Houston and a three-time member of Houston’s premier youth poetry slam team, Meta-Four Houston. He is the 2017 and 2018 Space City Grand Slam Champion, a 2018 National YoungArts Foundation Winner in Writing, and the 2019 Southwest Regional Youth Poet Laureate. His writing and videos have been featured in the Claremont Review, Muzzle Magazine, Houston Chronicle, Houston Public Media, and elsewhere. A proud member of Clutch City, Jackson carried H-Town wherever he goes. Check out more of Jackson Neal’s work: (http://jacksonnealpoetry.tk/) // (Instagram.com/jaxnealpoetry) // (Twitter.com/jaxnealpoetry).
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