Episode 101: Prageeta Sharma

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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

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Prageeta Sharma and Dorothy Wang at the Thinking Its Presence conference.

• 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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