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EPISODE 37 -  Poet and Didn’t Know It
Guest: Charif Shanahan

In this episode, published author and celebrated Poet Charif Shanahan helps us to demystify Poetry. Through his unique perspective and lens, he shares what it’s like to be a professor, a student, and a biracial gay man with a passion for the written word.

Charif’s Mini Bio - Charif Shanahan is the author of Into Each Room We Enter Without Knowing. He is a Jones Lecturer in Poetry in the Creative Writing Program at Stanford University. Shanahan’s poems appear in numerous journals, including American Poetry Review, The New Republic, The New York Times Magazine, and more.

Mentioned in Podcast

Book by Charif Shanahan 
Into Each Room We Enter without Knowing: poems
The poem read on today’s podcast: Story

Other Authors and Poets mentioned in Today's Podcast
Cave Canem
Toni Morrison
Alice Walker
Maya Angelou
Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Walt Whitman
William Shakespeare

Books 
I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings, Maya Angelou
God Help The Child, Toni Morrison
The Beat Poets and Beat Poetry Contribution

The Beat Generation was a literary movement started by a group of authors whose work explored and influenced American culture and politics in the post-war era. ... Both Howl and Naked Lunch were the focus of obscenity trials that ultimately helped to liberalize publishing in the United States. 

Linda Gregg
Linda Gregg was mentioned in the podcast as being one of Charif’s major mentors. Her published books include Things and Flesh, Chosen By The Lion, The Sacraments of Desire, Alma, Too Bright to See, In the Middle Distance, and All of it Singing. Her poems also appeared in numerous literary magazines, in

On March 20, 2019, she died of cancer at the Beth Israel Hospital in New York City. Wikipedia

Yusef Komunyakaa
Yusef is an American poet who teaches at New York University and is a member of the Fellowship of Southern Writers. Komunyakaa is a recipient of the 1994 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award, for Neon Vernacular and the 1994 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. He also received the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize. Wikipedia

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