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Waves Breaking


"Waves Breaking" came from my desire to talk with my peers about their poetry. I didn't grow up knowing about other trans and gq poets, or what this poetry could sound/like like. I want to know the environment I'm in. 

 

You can find out more about me, Avren Keating, at my personal blog: avrenkeating.wordpress.com 

Aug 1, 2016

In this episode I talk with Cameron Awkward-Rich about his approaches to poetry and theory, and the poetry in his new book Sympathetic Little Monster.

Cameron has published poems in The Journal, cream city review, Muzzle Magazine, Hobart, The Seattle Review, The Offing and elsewhere. He is a Cave Canem Fellow, a poetry editor at Muzzle Magazine, and currently a doctoral candidate in Modern Thought & Literature at Stanford University. Cam is the author of the chapbook Transit (Button Poetry, 2015) and his debut collection, Sympathetic Little Monster, was published by Ricochet Editions in 2016.

Go check out Sympathetic Little Monster, its a wonderful collection. 

 

Writers who were mentioned in the shout outs: 

James Baldwin's essay "Here Be Monsters"

Aracelis Girmay

Ari Banias

Danez Smith

Franny Choi

Sam Sax

Justin Phillip Reed

Fatimah Asghar

Aziza Barnes

Hanif Willis-Abdurraqib

 

The Sound of Waves Breaking this week is the sound of opening an attic, as found on freesound.org