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Alan Catlin reviews THEY SAID I WASN’T COLLEGE MATERIAL by Scot Young

They Said I Wasn't College Material by Scot Young

first published in http://misfitmagazine.net/ Scot Young, They Said I Wasn’t College Material, Roadside Press, Magic Jeep Distributing, available on Amazon, 2024, 132 pages, $15 Young’s latest collection is a selected, mostly culled from before 2009. The title comes from an actual conversation with a guidance counselor who failed to see Young’s potential as a student. Scot, in …

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short interview and reading by Scot Young on JAM Sessions with Joe Mykut

Review by E. Lynn Alexander: They Said I Wasn’t College Material by Scot Young

“They Said I Wasn’t College Material by Scot Young is a collection that spans time and circumstances, by a poet willing to resurrect the sting of assumptions and expectations to turn the lens in the other direction. He challenges social gatekeeping, and the classist label culture that nurtures the privileged and pushes the rest of …

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