E9: Sound Like Yourself: An Interview with Jeff Shotts from Graywolf Press

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Graywolf Press is a leading independent publisher of contemporary American and international literature. In this episode we talk with Executive Editor Jeff Shotts to learn how they discover and work with leading writers such as Eula Biss and Claudia Rankine. We also learn how their non-profit status allows them freedom to work at the leading edge of the art and what he means when he suggests writers "Sound Like Yourself".

Podcast Notes:

Partnership with Favorite Poem Project:

Favorite Poem Project: http://www.favoritepoem.org/

Robert Pinsky: http://robertpinskypoet.com/

AWP 2015 Conference: https://www.awpwriter.org/awp_conference/

Hayan Charara, Honors Faculty, University of Houston: http://www.uh.edu/honors/about/faculty-staff/hayan-charara.php

Out, Out- by Robert Frost: http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/238122

Robert Frost: http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/robert-frost

Interview with Jeff Shotts, Graywolf Press:

Graywolf Press: https://www.graywolfpress.org/

Eula Biss: http://www.eulabiss.net/

Leslie Jamison: http://www.lesliejamison.com/

Claudia Rankine: http://claudiarankine.com/

On Immunity, Eula Biss: https://www.graywolfpress.org/books/immunity

Notes from No Man's Land: https://www.graywolfpress.org/books/notes-no-mans-land

Citizen: An American Lyric, Claudia Rankine: https://www.graywolfpress.org/books/citizen

Don't Let me be Lonely, Claudia Rankine: https://www.graywolfpress.org/books/dont-let-me-be-lonely

If the Tabloids are True, What are You?, Matthea Harvey : https://www.graywolfpress.org/books/if-tabloids-are-true-what-are-you

Pray Song for a Day, Elizabeth Alexander: http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/182812

Emily Dickinson: http://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poet/emily-dickinson

Langston Hughes: http://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poet/langston-hughes

William Blake: http://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poet/william-blake

Gerard Manley Hopkins: http://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poet/gerard-manley-hopkins

Segment Break, 3-Sentence Review:

3-Sentence Reviews: http://tatestreet.org/category/reviews/three-sentence-reviews/

Sun Bear 3-Sentence Review: http://tatestreet.org/2014/11/25/what-can-poetry-do-sun-bear-by-matthew-zapruder/

Matthew Zapruder: https://matthewzapruder.wordpress.com/

Producers: Ray Crampton and Abigail Browning

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