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Aubrey Green interviews poet Durell Carter about his writing journey and experiences as a teacher.

In this episode of eMerge Unchained, host Aubrey Green sits down with Durell Carter, poet, short story writer, and teacher empowering high school students. They discuss the challenges of preforming compared to simply writing, and the dangers of working a gas station during a police sting. Durell shares about his time in the Red Dirt MFA program and how that was a pivotal period in both his life and writing journey. Coming to poetry only after years of writing stories, he recounts the importan...

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