Episode 49: Gauri Awasthi | McNeese State University
Gauri Awasthi talks to Jared about how McNeese allowed her to earn an MA and MFA in three years, decolonizing the poetry cannon, and how she first found poems through Bhakti poetry, love poems to the divine.
Gauri Awasthi is an Indian poet and environmentalist who recently graduated with an MFA in poetry from McNeese State University. She has won awards from Sundress Academy For The Arts, Louisiana Office of Cultural Development, Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, and Kundiman. Her writing has been published in Quarterly West, Notre Dame Review, The Punch Magazine, The Wire, Buzzfeed, and others. She teaches the Decolonizing Poetry Workshop at Catapult. Find her at her website, www.gauriawasthi.com.
Mentions:
Craft in the New World: Rethinking Fiction Writing and Workshopping by Matthew Salesses
The Anti-Racist Writing Workshop: How to Decolonize the Creative Classroom by Felicia Rose Chavez
Heart Like a Window, Mouth Like a Cliff by Sara Borjas
Ecopoetics and the Poet, workshop led by Gauri, August 20, 2022
