“I was just thinking about how my grandparents, who raised me, would be considered "white trash," whatever that means - mostly for being racists, I'd say. And how, as a child, I wanted to be like them, and identified with them culturally.” ThinkingMeanChildrenWould BeWantedWhiteRaisedRacistGrandparentTrashWhite Trash Author:Shane McCrae
“I think that the casual reader and the lyric and confession are trickily tied up together. I mean often when I read my students' poems my first impulse is to say, "O, the subject of this pronoun, this 'I,' is whatever kid wrote this poem." The audience for lyric poems is "confessionalized" to some extent. And I think this audience tends to find long narrative poems, for instance, kind of bewildering.” ThinkingKindMeanLongKidsTogetherAudienceImpulseConfessionTied Up Author:Shane McCrae
