Back in February, Wednesday host Ali Muldrow sat down with poet Tiana Clark to discuss Black burnout. This was pre-pandemic in the U.S., pre-summer protests, and pre-election season, but we think the conversation is just as relevant as ever, so we present it today as a special rebroadcast. This episode originally aired on February 19, […]
Let’s Talk Black Burnout
The internet has been abuzz about the concept of burnout since the publication of journalist Anne Helen Petersen’s viral article “How Millennials Became the Burnout Generation.” In response, poet Tiana Clark wrote “This is What Black Burnout Feels Like” to highlight the ways in which racism and inherited trauma exacerbate the anxiety of 21st-century life […]
Tiana Clark, Poetry Fellow at the WI Institute of Creative Writing
Since 1986, the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing has offered 9-month fellowships to up and coming writers, with the goal of helping them complete a first or second book. Poet Tiana Clark was born in California, then moved to Nashville at the age of 7, where she discovered the poetry scene. Since then, she received […]
