Writer joe Clifford chop it up with BaBw about being a prolific writer while being and Dad and husband, politics, and junkiedom.

Poet and author Cassandra Dallett is your Badass Bookworm inviting writers and activists to talk about their projects, process, and current events. Sometimes there are drinks sometimes there are roundtables, there is always great dialogue and ideas. The first year of Badass Bookworm Podcasts can be found under 75 Girls Record’s Podcasts. 
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Junkie Love with author Joe Clifford

Poet JosiahLuis Alderate joins Badass Bookworm to talk about the recent controversy surrounding the book American Dirt by Jeanine Cummins. JosiahLuis talks about how bad he thought the book was and how badly we need to hear from the real voices of Latinx writers who have made the crossing. He recommends writers and makes the argument for representation.
 Poet and author Cassandra Dallett is your Badass Bookworm inviting writers and activists to talk about their projects, process, and current events. Sometimes there are drinks sometimes there are roundtables, there is always great dialogue and ideas. The first year of Badass Bookworm Podcasts can be found under 75 Girls Record’s Podcasts. 
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Latinx Gold Vs American Dirt

Badass Bookworm invites three LA poets to chop it up while on their tour of The Bay Area, and before their show at Badass Bookworm’s Lit Loft, Matt Sedillo is a poet who has been on the pod and read at the series before, and is doing huge work at universities all over the world, he performs a piece from his new book Mowing Leaves of Grass, (Flowersong Books) Viva Padilla poet and editor of the Dryland journal, and Nikolai Garcia poet and co-editor at Dryland, join BaBw to discuss what they are working on and how they got here, Nikolai reads a piece from his latest chapbook Nuclear Shadows of Palm Trees. (DSTL Arts.org)

Poet and author Cassandra Dallett is your Badass Bookworm inviting writers and activists to talk about their projects, process, and current events. Sometimes there are drinks sometimes there are roundtables, there is always great dialogue and ideas. The first year of Badass Bookworm Podcasts can be found under 75 Girls Record’s Podcasts. 
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Reading List for this episode:
Dryland Journal  Drylandla.org
Janice Miller-The Boulevard DTSLArts
Karo Ska – gathering grandmother’s bones DTSLArts
Ingrid Calderon-Let the Buzzards Eat Me Whole 
Matt Sedillo-Mowing Leaves of Grass Flowersong Books
Nikolai Garcia-Nuclear Shadows of Palm Trees DTSLArts

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DryLand To The Bay

Episode title: the Reclaimugly.org

Podcast description:
Badass Bookworm Cassandra Dallett sits down with the delightfully juicy and joy filled writer and activist, Vanessa Rochelle Lewis to talk about her work in reclaiming ugly. Vanessa is doing amazing work in the world and is a encouraging all of us to decolonize our ideas of what ugly means. I promise you will be inspired. There are workshops happening and a book forthcoming so please listen and please visit reclaimugly.org and look into the Pleasureness Literary Academy as well. If you are in the Bay Area I hope to meet you at the even March 20th at Impact Hub Oakland. 


Poet and author Cassandra Dallett is your Badass Bookworm inviting writers and activists to talk about their projects, process, and current events. Sometimes there are drinks sometimes there are roundtables, there is always great dialogue and ideas. The first year of Badass Bookworm Podcasts can be found under 75 Girls Record’s Podcasts. 
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Summary of Pod 
learn the concept of uglification and how to fix your gaze

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Reading List for this episode: 
Reclaimugly.org
https://www.pleasurenesslitacademy.com
literally every story essay or poem you can get your hands on written by Vanessa Rochelle Lewis
also read Beloved by Toni Morrison 
because I said so 

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Audio engineer- the ever patient and forgiving- B. Banks

Reclaim Ugly Podcast

Cassandra Dallett is a five-time Pushcart nominee. She has been published in Sparkle and Blink, Great Weather for Media, Sensitive Skin, The Oakland Review, and The East Bay Review among many others. Cassandra reads often around the Bay Area, she hosts the monthly writing workshop On Two Six, is a facilitator at MOWW, (Mills Oakland Writers Workshop) hosts The Badass Bookworm Podcast, and co-hosts and curates the quarterly reading series Moon Drop Productions. Her first full-length book of poetry Wet Reckless (Manic D Press) was released in 2014. In 2015, she authored five chapbooks, one of them, On Sunday, A Finch (Nomadic Press) was nominated for a California Book Award, 2018 brought the release of another full-length collection, Collapse, also on Nomadic Press, also nominated for a CA Book Award. For links and more check out cassandradallett.me

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