In The Margins E9: Sound Like Yourself: An Interview with Graywolf Press

E9 Guest: Executive Editor Jeff Shotts

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
• “Praise Song for the 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: https://tatestreet.org/category/reviews/three-sentence-reviews/
• Sun Bear 3-Sentence Review: https://tatestreet.org/2014/11/25/what-can-poetry-do-sun-bear-by-matthew-zapruder/
• Matthew Zapruder: https://matthewzapruder.wordpress.com/