Episode 101: Prageeta Sharma

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.

PODCAST: PLAY IN NEW WINDOW | READ TRANSCRIPT SUBSCRIBE:APPLE PODCASTS | GOOGLE PODCASTS | AMAZON PODCASTSSUPPORT: PATREON | VENMO: @Rachel_ZuckerSelected Work by Prageeta SharmaGrief 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 ReferencedKaty LedererAlice NotleyThe Descent of InannaDouglas KearneyMark StrandDorothy Wang, Thinking Its Presence: Form, Race, and Subjectivity in Asian American PoetryJames Kyung-jin Lee, Pedagogies of Woundedness: Illness, Memoir, and the Ends of the Model MinorityLauren Berlant, Cruel OptimismPauline Chen, Final Exam: A Surgeon's Reflections on MortalityValorie ThomasThe Beatles, Let it BeBarnett NewmanBrenda ShaughnessySandra LimDivya Victor, Curb and KithCathy Park Hong, Minor Feelings: An Asian American ReckoningJorie GrahamSianne Ngai, Ugly FeelingsKyla TompkinsCherene Sherrard-JohnsonAmaud Jamaul JohnsonJonathan LethemClaudia Rankine, CitizenRoland Barthes, Grief SequencePresumed 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. HarrisMatthew 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.