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.

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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.