Rachel speaks with poet, scholar, and Thinking Its Presence conference founder Prageeta Sharma about her book Grief Sequence and creating a platform for BIPOC writers and scholars with the settlement from her discrimination lawsuit. The conversation touches on grief, racism and misogyny, attachment to problematic objects, second chances at love, the abject lyric, false friends, and how to support each other with vibrancy.
Selected Work by Prageeta Sharma
Grief Sequence (Wave, 2020)
Undergloom (Fence Books, 2013)
Infamous Landscapes (Fence Books, 2007)
The Opening Question (Fence Books, 2004)
Bliss to Fill (Subpress, 2000)
“A One Won” and “Friendship and Racial Furniture: An Address” in Harp & Altar, Issue 11, Winter 2022
Also Referenced
Katy Lederer
Alice Notley
The Descent of Inanna
Douglas Kearney
Mark Strand
Dorothy Wang, Thinking Its Presence: Form, Race, and Subjectivity in Asian American Poetry
James Kyung-jin Lee, Pedagogies of Woundedness: Illness, Memoir, and the Ends of the Model Minority
Lauren Berlant, Cruel Optimism
Pauline Chen, Final Exam: A Surgeon's Reflections on Mortality
Valorie Thomas
The Beatles, Let it Be
Barnett Newman
Brenda Shaughnessy
Sandra Lim
Divya Victor, Curb and Kith
Cathy Park Hong, Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning
Jorie Graham
Sianne Ngai, Ugly Feelings
Kyla Tompkins
Cherene Sherrard-Johnson
Amaud Jamaul Johnson
Jonathan Lethem
Claudia Rankine, Citizen
Roland Barthes, Grief Sequence
Presumed Incompetent: The Intersections of Race and Class for Women in Academia, ed. Gabriella Gutiérrez y Muhs, Yolanda Flores Niemann, Carmen G. Gonzalez and Angela P. Harris
Matthew Salesses, Craft in the Real World: Rethinking Fiction Writing and Workshopping
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Prageeta Sharma and Dorothy Wang at the Thinking Its Presence conference.
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