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GLP008: Poet Malika Booker

4/30/2015

 

Episode 8: Poet Malika Booker

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  • Malika's Website
  • Malika on Facebook
  • Malika on Twitter
  • Malika on The British Council Website
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Books & Other Links Mentioned

  • Pepper Seed by Malika Booker
  • Breadfruit by Malika Booker
  • How To Escape From a Leper Colony by Tiphanie Yanique 
  • The Vital System by C.M. Burrows
  • Citizen by Claudia Rankine
  • A Brief History of Seven Killings by Marlon James

Writers Mentioned

  • Kwame Dawes
  • Toni Morrison
  • Jacob Sam-La Rose

Other Links

  • Free Verse Report
  • The Complete Works
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GLP007: Kira Lynne Allen

4/11/2015

 

Episode 7: Poet Kira Lynne Allen

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Kira Lynne Allen
Poet, Facilitator & Author
SHOW NOTES: 
  • Kira talks about her journey to publication after years of living in survival mode. 
  • Can poetry save your life? 
  • Minimum words for maximum impact
  • Kira's Website


Books & Other Links Mentioned

  • Kira's Book -- Write this Second
  • The Round House by Louise Erdirch
  • Chasing Utopia by Nikki Giovanni
  • Solider by June Jordan
WRITERS MENTIONED
  • Audre Lorde
  • June Jordan -- Poetry for the People at UC Berkeley
  • Sonia Sanchez
  • Maya Angelou
  • Martin Espada
OTHER LINKS
  • La Pena Cultural Center in Berkeley, CA
  • Glide Memorial Church in San Francisco
  • Bay Area Women Against Rape
  • One Billion Rising

Writing Related Quotes

Poetry is a 911 call. --June Jordan
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GLP006: Beth Barany

4/1/2015

 

Episode 6: Novelist Beth Barany

Beth BaranyBeth Barany Novelist & Creativity Coach for Writers
SHOW NOTES:
  • know your process
  • give yourself lots of space to write and think.
  • make the writing an appointment like any other important item on your calendar. 
  • get some distance from your writing.
  • get feedback from trusted advisors.




Books and Other Links Mentioned

BETH'S BOOKS:
Henrietta The Dragon Slayer by Beth Barany
Overcome Writer's Block by Beth Barany
The Writer's Adventure's Guide by Beth Barany
Twitter for Authors by Beth Barany

OTHER BOOKS THAT WERE MENTIONED
Gargoyles Anthology
Writing Romance: The Ultimate Guide to Craft, Creation and Industry Connections


LINKS SHARED
Beth's Website
Barany School of Fiction
Paris Trip for Writers
Writer's Fun Zone
Author Entreprenuership Magazine
Canva.com
Draft2Digital.com

Writing Related Quotes

"Know when the writing is not ready. Don't show every little detail. Don't give up." -- Beth Barany
"Reframe the rejection." -- Beth Barany

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GLP005: Stephanie Yun

7/25/2014

 

Episode 5: Poet Stephanie Yun

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2012 Youth Poet Laureate
Stephanie Yun

Show Notes:

  • using yourself as the standard
  • fragments and re-imagining
  • navigating identity
  • language acquisition
  • writing from a place of urgency
  • the pressures of life on your writing
  • pulling from your everyday living

Books and Other Links Mentioned

The Gangster We're All Looking For by Thi Diem Thuy Le
The Brief and Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz
The Ethical Slut by Dossie Easton
Borderlands / La Frontera by
Gloria Anzaldua
Oakland's Youth Poet Laureate Program
Life is Living
Youth Speaks
Poetry for the People

Writing Related Quotes & Advice

"Write the poem that only you can write."
"The standard is yourself."
"Write drunk, edit sober." -- Ernest Hemingway
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GLP004: Poet Arisa White

7/22/2014

 

Episode 3: Arisa White

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Arisa White
Photo by Samantha Florio
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SHOW NOTES: (what we talked about)

  • Writing poems into a project as a way to stay in the writing space
  • The importance of residencies and retreats to fuel your writing
  • Adapting poetry for the stage
  • Collaborating with other artists
  • Anger Portraits on Zoramag.com
  • The Daily Grind Online Community

BOOKS & OTHER LINKS MENTIONED

You Good Thing by Dara Wier
Twerk by LaTasha N. Nevada Diggs
Hurrah's Nest, Post Pardon, & A Penny Saved by Arisa White
Breadloaf Writer's Conference
Cave Canem
Willow Books
Virtual Artist Collective

WRITING RELATED QUOTES & ADVICE

"You need to know the intelligence of your poem."
"Know when your writing seasons are."
"a writing oops...thinking that once you're done with a poem it has nothing to teach you"
"Be engaged with your surroundings and record everything."
"What would happen if one woman told the truth about her life? The world would split open." -- Muriel Rukeyser

WRITERS MENTIONED

Joshunda Sanders
Mecca Jamilah Sullivan
Stacy-Ann Chin
Tara Betts
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GLP 003: Meet the Poetry Editor Cynthia Dewi Oka

7/17/2014

 

Episode 3: Cynthia Dewi Oka

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Cynthia Dewi Oka
Poetry Editor
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Show Notes

Coming soon!!
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GLP 002: Soma Mei Sheng Frazier

7/15/2014

 

Episode 2: Fiction Writer Soma Mei Sheng Frazier

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Soma Mei Sheng Frazier
Author of Collateral Damage
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Show Notes:

Coming soon!!

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In the next episode we chat with Poetry Editor & Poet, Cynthia Dewi Oka
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GLP 001: Meet the Prose Editors of Generations

7/3/2014

 

Episode 1: A Conversation with Jessica & Melanie

NOTE: This is our first episode. We were working out the kinks so stick with us. Lots of great information, but the recording quality is pretty horrible -- we know and we worked it out for future episodes. We hope you'll stick around to find out :-).
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Creative Nonfiction Editor
Jessica Langlois
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Fiction Editor
Melanie Hilario

Show Notes:

  • What the editors want to see when you submit to Generations.
  • Creating a literary life and how to fit writing into your everyday grind.
  • The latest trends in fiction and creative nonfiction from our genre editors.
  • Explaining the reading process for selection in Generations.
  • Contextualizing your writing in the larger conversation of humanity.
  • Breaking down the next theme (Heritage) for Generations submissions.
BOOKS MENTIONED
Wild
by Cheryl Strayed
Dawn by Octavia Butler
The Road by
Cormac McCarthy
Moby Dick by Herman Melville
Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace
Game of Thrones by George R. R. Martin
Writing Past Dark by Bonnie L. Friedman
WRITING RELATED QUOTES
"The best art risks most deeply. It is intended not for a group of readers but for one. It descends into the subterranean, the shameful, the fraught, the urgent the covert. What cannot be said aloud because it defies conversation. What cannot be said aloud because it exists only as this constellation of scenes, this concatenation of details on the page, but passes invisibly over the earth because you have not yet pointed a finger at it. Write what you care about. Don't write one more word that you don't care about. Don't waste any more of your life on what does not matter to you." -- Bonnie L. Friedman
"It's never to late to be what you might have been." -- George Elliot
"Don't be afraid of failure. Failure is the only thing that teaches, success does not. ...you have to be fearless." -- Patti Lupone
WRITER'S MENTIONED
Chris Abani
Victor LaValle
WRITING ADVICE WE'VE GOTTEN (paraphrased of course)
  • Ask yourself -- "Is the writing too precious?"
  • Do what serves the story.
  • Make sure something happens in the story.
  • Don't leave out the most important details.
  • Every word should be necessary.

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