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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 

Feb 21, 2016

Today's show features a conversation between Loma and me about the government influence on poetry, the boundaries of a poem between other objects and being, poetry & activism, struggling with how to write poetry about domestic abuse, fearlessness, and more.

Poets & essays mentioned in this episode:

Juliana Spahr and her influential essay on Contemporary Poetry and Its Nationalisms: ( http://www.academia.edu/9079433/Contemporary_US_Poetry_and_Its_Nationalisms )

Loma's website ( christophersoto-poet.com )

Dark Matter: ( http://www.darkmatterpoetry.com/ )

Joshua Jennifer Espinoza: ( http://joshuajenniferespinoza.com/ )

Stephanie Burt ( http://www.closecallswithnonsense.com/category/stephanie/ )

TC Tolbert ( http://www.tctolbert.com/ )

Julian T. Brolaski ( http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/julian-brolaski )