Reminder that Gorman is the woman who tried to cancel Billy Collins for racism last year because he rejected her poem from the young poets yearbook he edits and it turned out he just doesn't rate her as a poet and didn't even know she was black.
Lmao if that's true (can't find it) that's pretty funny.
I liked the little tidbit about how she was wearing jewelry gifted to her by Oprah Winfrey -- would be pretty hard-pressed to think of a single more damaging individual to art in the past 30 years.
I'm 90% sure it was her, she wrote a medium post about it and Collins - an 80 year old man had to respond and he sent a letter in the post to a newspaper to do so because he didn't know what medium was. I read his response in the New Yorker.
I'll double check now but I thought I was pretty safe because how many black poets are called Gorman (and that was part of why he hadn't even realised that's why the name stuck in my head). If I'm wrong I'll edit my comment. This is why I should check before I comment and not just assume and end up looking like a dick.
The young poets yearbook is a national thing, it's not affiliated with a school. If you search her name on medium you can still find her call out post.
Reminder that Gorman is the woman who tried to cancel Billy Collins for racism last year because he rejected her poem from the young poets yearbook he edits and it turned out he just doesn't rate her as a poet and didn't even know she was black.
Lmao if that's true (can't find it) that's pretty funny.
I liked the little tidbit about how she was wearing jewelry gifted to her by Oprah Winfrey -- would be pretty hard-pressed to think of a single more damaging individual to art in the past 30 years.
I'm 90% sure it was her, she wrote a medium post about it and Collins - an 80 year old man had to respond and he sent a letter in the post to a newspaper to do so because he didn't know what medium was. I read his response in the New Yorker.
I'll double check now but I thought I was pretty safe because how many black poets are called Gorman (and that was part of why he hadn't even realised that's why the name stuck in my head). If I'm wrong I'll edit my comment. This is why I should check before I comment and not just assume and end up looking like a dick.
Never heard of this -- what's the deal?
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The young poets yearbook is a national thing, it's not affiliated with a school. If you search her name on medium you can still find her call out post.