In this episode of eMerge Unchained, host Aubrey Green sits down with Durell Carter, poet, short story writer, and teacher empowering high school students. They discuss the challenges of preforming compared to simply writing, and the dangers of working a gas station during a police sting.

Durell shares about his time in the Red Dirt MFA program and how that was a pivotal period in both his life and writing journey. Coming to poetry only after years of writing stories, he recounts the importance of clever teachers pulling him out of his comfort zone and the importance of using grounded, everyday language in his poems.

Listen as they talk about how formative the early years can be, commiserate over rejection letters, notice the tingles that come from having work published, and the importance of community no matter where you are in your literary life.

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