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Author Interview with PCPL’s Pride Team (for June 7th Workshop)

Sean Avery Medlin highlighting National Poetry Month (April 8th)

Sean Avery Medlin highlighting National Poetry Month; Apr 8, 2025, by Joe McHugh, Glendale Star Staff Writer: https://www.glendalestar.com/features/sean-avery-medlin-highlighting-national-poetry-month/article_e2045563-6e40-4735-9a27-52ed2bf97fd3.html

Poet, Rapper leads 3 workshop at Glendale Libraries (March 2025)

All Press from 2014-2022

• Ep 8. Sean Avery Medlin, The Personhood Project [Podcast], Aaron Tyler Hand, August 2022

• Black Music Month: 15 Books About the Impact of Black Music on Pop Culture, Teen Vogue, Jaelani Turner-Williams, June 2022

• 10 Poetry Collections From 2021 That You Might Have Missed, Electric Literature, Angela María Spring, January 2022

• The Best Music We Heard in Metro Phoenix in 2021, Phoenix New Times, Chris Coplan, December 2021

• Grandiose and Mythic, Beautiful and Dangerous: On Sean Avery Medlin’s “808s & Otherworlds” Cleveland Review of Books, Conor Bracken, December 2021

• Every Rap Is a Poem: A Conversation with Sean Avery Medlin, Los Angeles Review of Books, Michelle Beaver, December 2021

• Emerging Writers | Remarkable Reads 2021, Changing Hands Bookstore, Michelle Malonzo, December 2021

• Most Anticipated Small Press Releases: September-December 2021, Big Other, John Madera, December 2021

• Our Best Adult Books of 2021, Phoenix Public Library, N/A (Staff), December 2021  

• Bookin’ w / Sean Avery Medlin, “Bookin’” (Quailridge Books Podcast), Jason Jefferies, November 2021

• Something thrilling comes this way; honoring Black Poetry Day, “Word” (KJZZ Podcast), Tom Maxedon, October 2021

• Interview with Sean Avery Medlin, TriQuarterly, Joshua Bohnsack, October 2021

• Who Defends the Defenders?: the Hulk, Hip Hop, and Sean Avery Medlin’s 808s & Otherworlds, f(r)iction, Dominic Loise, September 2021 

• INTERVIEW WITH SEAN AVERY MEDLIN, Geeks OUT, Michele Kirichanskaya, September 2021

• Sunday Morning! “808s & Otherworlds” by Sean Avery Medlin, Ordinary Times, Rufus F., September 2021

• IN CONVERSATION WITH SEAN AVERY MEDLIN, Avocado Diaries, Sean Loughran, September 2021

• The Great 2021 Fall Book Preview: Our 60 best reads for right now, Chicago Tribune, Christopher Borrelli, September 2021

• Sean Avery Medlin’s Poetry Makes Room for Gaming and Superheroes, Phoenix New Times, Robrt L. Pela, September 2021

• PageTurners: Literature Racing Against Time, Ghosts, Past Decisions, and Police in the 1960s, The Root, Bella Morais, September 2021

• 808s & Otherworlds: An Interview with Sean Avery, Michigan Quarterly Review, Sam Small, September 2021 

• The Five Best Songs From Phoenix Musicians in August, Phoenix New Times, Chris Coplan, August 2021

• 45 Books By Black Authors You Can Read Before, After & During Black History Month, paperbackparis.com, Paris Close, February 2021

• 10 Poets To Know in Metro Phoenix, Phoenix New Times, Lynn Trimble, May 2019

• skinnyblk: New Play Explores Gender, Sexuality and Toxic Masculinity, laphoenikera.com, Ayo Sinplaneta, October 2018

• Five Questions: “Nigga: A Monologue’s” Sean Avery, Lakefrontrow.com, David Klein, April 2016

• Sean Avery Tells His Story Loudly on “EMOFUNK”, Afropunk.com, Nathan Leigh, March 2016

• Nigga: A Monologue – Sean Avery, Afropunk.com, Lou Constant-Desportes, March 2016

• This video will make you think about the n-word and its place in American culture, Blavity.com, Blavity Team, December 2015

• Sean Avery: “Emofunk”, Isthmus.com, Joe Engle, August 2014

• Interview: 10 Questions with Sean Avery, Istillloveher.de, Florian Gerstner, July 2014