GLP005: Stephanie Yun

Episode 5: Poet Stephanie Yun

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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