Carol Lynn Stevenson Grellas and Emma Sheinbaum

On the 7/12/23 edition of Dr. Andy’s Poetry and Technology Hour:

We are joined by poets Carol Lynn Stevenson Grellas and Emma Sheinbaum. Carol Lynn kicks off the hour by sharing her enjoyment of listening to audiobooks during her summer of recovery and reflection, mainly using this practice as means to fuel composition. She finds that she has sweet moments of inspiration after reading something powerful, often drawn towards works filled with the tension of beauty and heartbreaking news. Carol Lynn informs listeners how she creates poems by mixing fantasy and memory and by working on poems for an hour or more every day. She then shares a poem about the love she experienced from her ex-mother-in-law. She reflects on her time and influences at Vermont College of Fine Arts and her upcoming book of poetry. She concludes her interview by sharing a feminist poem that captures the female experience. 

Emma Sheinbaum explores how community influences her position as a writer. She is moved most by essays that reist genre, and by the line between prose and treatise. She then shares a piece that began as separate lines in her notes app that she then arranged into a poem. Her method involves following a tension or attempting to find an answer for the question she feels internally through her poetry and her essays. Emma also resists parameters through her role at the literary journal A Velvet Giant and her shared work on her website www.emmasheinbaum.com.

Carol Lynn Stevenson Grellas lives in the Sierra Foothills of California and is a recent graduate of Vermont College of Fine Arts with an MFA in Writing, where she earned a merit scholarship. She is a twelve-time Pushcart Prize nominee and an eight-time Best of the Net nominee. In 2012 she won the Red Ochre Chapbook Contest with her manuscript Before I Go to Sleep. In 2018, her book In the Making of Goodbyes was nominated for the CLMP Firecracker Award in Poetry, and her poem A Mall in California took 2nd place for the Jack Kerouac Poetry Prize. She has served as the Editor-in-Chief for the Orchards Poetry Journal and Co-Editor-in-Chief for the Tule Review and is a former member of the Board of Directors for the Sacramento Poetry Center. Her work can be found in the Saratoga Authors Hall of Fame. Her latest collection of poems Alice in Ruby Slippers, was short-listed for the 2021 Eric Hoffer Grand Prize and awarded honorable mention in the Poetry category and has been featured in Sundress Publications, The Wardrobes Best Dressed. 

Emma Sheinbaum is Co-Founding Editor of the genreless literary journal A Velvet Giant. Her essays and poems are published in Cosmonauts Avenue, Juked, a video essay in TriQuarterly, Cherub Magazine, The InQueery, Glass Mountain, and Metatron Press #MicroMeta Series, among others.

The Poetry Night Reading Series features Susan Flynn and Jemi McDonald at 7 PM on Thursday, July 20th, 2023, at the John Natsoulas Gallery, 521 1st Street in Davis.

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