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Austin, Texas
Tutoring manager at a private educational company
“I’m told that a lot of my poems are very political, satirical and feminist. It’s what I’m passionate about, and I’m a woman with a lot of privilege because I’m white and educated. I can talk about whatever I want and there’s no adversity. I want to do something with my time that serves others. I could become a politician and ensure that I get my words out there. So if I’m on a poetry platform, I want to give people the vocabulary to speak up on their behalf.”
Interviewed by Rylie Hester
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Chickasha, Okla.
11th grade English teacher
“I started writing journals when I was very young, and when I was about 15 or so, my journals started turning into poems rather than journal entries. So I just started writing, and I was a big reader of poetry — I love the classics. I love Walt Whitman and William Blake and all those romantics. I’ve always been — it’s not one of those things where I just found poetry. Poetry’s been with me my entire life.”
Interviewed by Mason Morgan
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Texas Grand Slam Preview
October 4, 2015
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Baton Rouge, La.
Marketing director and teacher artist for “Forward Arts”
“I write a lot about racism, sexism, heterosexism, misogyny. I look to try to undue and unpack a lot of things that I personally absorbed coming up. A lot of my writing is focused on the un-learning of problematic things I learned in my upbringing.”
Interviewed by Mason Morgan
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