THE POETRY VLOG (TPV)

Dr. Stevi Costa (AKA Sailor St. Claire) discusses Queer and Feminist burlesque as poetry. She performs from "Striptease: The Untold Story of the Girlie Show" by Rachel Stein and shares her experiences performing with Noveltease Theatre and offers strategies for scholars, students, and arts communities to think about the intersections of burlesque performance, multimodality, and intersectional feminism. This episode was originally scheduled for Season 3's final installment, but was pushed to Season 4 due to COVID restraints and a turn in TPV focus to the #supportblacktranspoets). Episode Chapters: Intro & About This Episode 0:00 - 2:31 Performative Reading from 'Striptease' 2:31 - 6:42 How to Develop Performative Reading Skills 6:42 - 10:27 The Relationship Between Performative Reading and Literary Burlesque 10:27 - 11:53 Why Burlesque? (History of Burlesque) 11:53 - 13:46 Burlesque, Camp, Queer Community, Feminism 13:46 - 15:09 Articulating Burlesque as both Theatre and Potential Site for Embodied Feminism 15:09 - 19:40 Closing Comments/About Noveltease Theatre/About The Poetry Vlog 19:40 - 21:27 Question for the Audience 21:27 - 22:19 Outro 22:19 Learn more about Sailor St. Claire and Noveltease: ✔︎ https://www.stevicosta.com ✔︎ https://novelteasetheatre.org/ Support hiring students while keeping these teaching videos free by subscribing (goal of 1000!) and/or donating: ✔︎ https://www.youtube.com/c/thepoetryvlog?sub_confirmation=1 ✔︎ https://thepoetryvlog.com/thepoetryvlog Learn more about C. R. Grimmer and their most recent book, The Lyme Letters: ✔︎ https://www.crgrimmer.com/ Listen to the Podcast Edition: ✔︎ https://anchor.fm/thepoetryvlog Closed Captioning Certification: ✔︎ Provided by the UW DO-IT Team This Episode was Produced by: ✔︎ Emily Joy-Oomen & C. R. Grimmer Season 3 was possible with support from The Simpson Center for the Humanities Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fellowship and Jack Straw Cultural Center. Support Season 4 as a free teaching and education resource: ✔︎ https://www.thepoetryvlog.com/thepoetryvlog About The Poetry Vlog (TPV): The Poetry Vlog is a YouTube Channel and Podcast dedicated to building social justice coalitions through poetry, pop culture, cultural studies, and related arts dialogues. Full episodes include guests that range from unpublished and poetry-adjacent community stake-holders to award-winning poets and scholars, to C. R.'s own students. The Poetry Vlog across its distribution channels believes in the worlds we can build through dialogue-based knowledge production, supporting open access scholarship, community-based research, and accessible pedagogy. Connect @: ✔︎ https://instagram.com/cr_grimmer ✔︎ https://twitter.com/crgrimmertpv ✔︎ https://facebook.com/thepoetryvlog ✔︎ https://cgrimmer.com/

Professor A.D. Carson (AKA "Aydee the Great") discusses "academic rap," Black Studies, insights on his album and mixtap/e/ssay 'i used to love to dream'. This episode offers strategies for scholars, students, and arts communities to think about the intersections of genre, sound, form, multimodality, and race. The Poetry Vlog Season 4 debuts with a special edition where you can listen (for free!!!) and read the full mixtap/e/ssay using the below link. This is because of the incredible work being done for Open Access Scholarship by University of Michigan Press' Fulcrum: ✔︎ https://www.fulcrum.org/concern/monographs/m900nw52n Learn more about Dr. A. D.: ✔︎ https://aydeethegreat.com/ Listen to the Podcast Edition: Forthcoming February 2021 Episode Chapters: Intro 0:00-1:41 "Permanent Outsider Status" 1:42-4:19 "The Geospecificity of Sound" 4:20-8:00 "The So-Called N Word" 8:01-10:50 "Hybrid Practices" 10:51-14:07 ""Rapper" And Labels" 14:08-19:04 "Owning The Rapper Label" 19:05-21:38 "Racial Authenticity" 21:39-23:45 "racialized Sonic Signification" 23:46-27:48 Outro 2:39 Closed Captioning Certification: ✔︎ Provided by the UW DO-IT Team This Episode was Produced by: ✔︎ Esat Tunagur Season 3 was possible with support from The Simpson Center for the Humanities Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fellowship and Jack Straw Cultural Center. Support Season 4 as a free teaching and education resource: ✔︎ https://www.thepoetryvlog.com/thepoetryvlog Subscribe for future how-to and interview videos: ✔︎ https://www.youtube.com/c/thepoetryvlog?sub_confirmation=1 Learn more about C. R. Grimmer and their most recent book, The Lyme Letters: ✔︎ https://www.crgrimmer.com/ About The Poetry Vlog (TPV): The Poetry Vlog is a YouTube Channel and Podcast dedicated to building social justice coalitions through poetry, pop culture, cultural studies, and related arts dialogues. Full episodes include guests that range from unpublished and poetry-adjacent community stake-holders to award-winning poets and scholars, to C. R.'s own students. The Poetry Vlog across its distribution channels believes in the worlds we can build through dialogue-based knowledge production, supporting open access scholarship, community-based research, and accessible pedagogy. Say hi to C. R. over @: ✔︎ https://instagram.com/cr_grimmer ✔︎ https://twitter.com/crgrimmertpv ✔︎ https://facebook.com/thepoetryvlog ✔︎ https://cgrimmer.com/

On this episode of The Poetry Vlog, poet and educator Jane Wong reads her original work and discusses how poetry can relate to our experiences of class, labor and community. Listen to the podcast edition here: https://anchor.fm/thepoetryvlog/episodes/S3--E14-Jane-Wong-on-Poetry--Class--and-Labor-ectv2u Jane Wong's poems can be found in places such as Best American Poetry 2015, American Poetry Review, POETRY, AGNI, Third Coast, New England Review, and others. Her essays have appeared in McSweeney's, Black Warrior Review, Ecotone, The Georgia Review, Shenandoah, and This is the Place: Women Writing About Home. A Kundiman fellow, she is the recipient of a Pushcart Prize and fellowships and residencies from the U.S. Fulbright Program, Artist Trust, 4Culture, the Fine Arts Work Center, Bread Loaf, Willapa Bay AiR, Hedgebrook, the Jentel Foundation, SAFTA, and Mineral School. This July, she will be Sarabande’s Writer-in-Residence at Blackacre. She is the author of Overpour from Action Books, and How to Not Be Afraid of Everything, which is forthcoming from Alice James Books. She is an Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at Western Washington University. In 2017, she received the James W. Ray Distinguished Artist award for Washington artists. ✔︎ https://janewongwriter.com ✔︎ https://www.instagram.com/paradeofcats . . . . . . . The Poetry Vlog is a YouTube Channel and Podcast dedicated to building social justice coalitions through poetry, pop culture, cultural studies, and related arts dialogues. Full episodes include guests that range from unpublished and poetry-adjacent community stake-holders, to award-winning poets and scholars, to C. R.'s own students. The Poetry Vlog across its distribution channels believes in the worlds we can build through dialogue-based knowledge production, supporting open access scholarship, community-based research, and accessible pedagogy. The Spring 2020 Student Team: Gene Wang - Video Editor Emily Oomen - Video Editor Parker Kennedy - Video Editor Mimi Hoang - Illustrator Cheryl Wu - Content Writer & Designer Kristin Ruopp - Digital Marketing Coordinator Subscribe to our channel to join our fast-growing arts & scholarship community: ✔︎ http://youtube.com/c/thepoetryvlog?sub_confirmation=1 The Poetry Vlog Podcast: ✔︎ https://www.anchor.fm/thepoetryvlog . . . . . . . Receive FREE snail mail stickers and magnets with newsletter sign-up at: ✔︎ https://www.thepoetryvlog.com Say hi: ✔︎ http://instagram.com/thepoetryvlog ✔︎ http://www.twitter.com/thepoetryvlog ✔︎ https://www.facebook.com/thepoetryvlog ✔︎ https://www.thepoetryvlog.com Support this project: ✔︎ https://anchor.fm/thepoetryvlog/support . . . . . . . Catch up on Seasons 1 & 2: ✔︎ https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLsIc9vBng_A0scPpg9Wa7uVmxkE_Si5Ri Season 3 of The Poetry Vlog is supported by The Simpson Center for the Humanities, with support from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and the Jack Straw Cultural Center.

Poet and educator Adam Falkner reads his original work and discusses the value of telling our stories, as well as the value in exploring queer identity by writing into our internal contradictions. Dr. Adam Falkner is a poet, educator and arts & culture strategist. He is the author of Adoption (Winner of the 2017 Diode Editions Chapbook Award) and The Willies (Button Poetry, 2020), and his work has appeared in a range of print and media spaces including on programming for HBO, NBC, NPR, BET, in the New York Times, and elsewhere. A former high school English teacher in New York City’s public schools, Adam is the Founder and Executive Director of the pioneering diversity consulting initiative, the Dialogue Arts Project, in which capacity he develops and facilitates trainings for schools, companies and cultural institutions across the country. Adam has toured the United States as a guest artist, lecturer and trainer for thousands of students, educators and corporate employees, and was the featured performer at President Obama’s Grassroots Ball at the 2009 Presidential Inauguration. He holds a Ph.D. in English and Education from Columbia University. ✔︎ http://www.adamfalknerarts.com ✔︎ https://www.instagram.com/adam_falkner . . . . . . . The Poetry Vlog is a YouTube Channel and Podcast dedicated to building social justice coalitions through poetry, pop culture, cultural studies, and related arts dialogues. Full episodes include guests that range from unpublished and poetry-adjacent community stake-holders, to award-winning poets and scholars, to C. R.'s own students. The Poetry Vlog across its distribution channels believes in the worlds we can build through dialogue-based knowledge production, supporting open access scholarship, community-based research, and accessible pedagogy. The Winter 2020 Student Team: Parker Kennedy - Video Editor Evelyn Niu - Video Editor Kristin Ruopp - Digital Marketing Reagan Welsh - Social Media & Communications Cheryl Wu - Content Writer & Designer Subscribe to our channel to join our fast-growing arts & scholarship community: ✔︎ http://youtube.com/c/thepoetryvlog?sub_confirmation=1 The Poetry Vlog Podcast: ✔︎ https://www.anchor.fm/thepoetryvlog . . . . . . . Receive FREE snail mail stickers and magnets with newsletter sign-up at: ✔︎ https://www.thepoetryvlog.com Say hi: ✔︎ http://instagram.com/thepoetryvlog ✔︎ http://www.twitter.com/thepoetryvlog ✔︎ https://www.facebook.com/thepoetryvlog ✔︎ https://www.thepoetryvlog.com Support this project: ✔︎ https://anchor.fm/thepoetryvlog/support . . . . . . . Catch up on Seasons 1 & 2: ✔︎ https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLsIc9vBng_A0scPpg9Wa7uVmxkE_Si5Ri Season 3 of The Poetry Vlog is supported by The Simpson Center for the Humanities, with support from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and the Jack Straw Cultural Center.

This week on TPV, Prageeta Sharma reads from her book Grief Sequence, discusses the elegy form, and about connecting with abstraction. Listen to the podcast edition here: https://anchor.fm/thepoetryvlog/episodes/S3--E11-Prageeta-Sharma-on-Grief-in-Poetry--the-Elegy--and-Abstraction-eal351 [From https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/prageeta-sharma] Poet Prageeta Sharma was born in Framingham, Massachusetts. Her parents emigrated from India in 1969, and Sharma was raised a Hindu. She has acknowledged the influence of her parents’ religion on her poetry: “I was taught to honor knowledge and books like a religion and so for me poetry keeps this relationship close, true, active,” she told the journal Willow Springs. Sharma attended Simon’s Rock College of Bard as an undergraduate and earned her MFA from Brown University and an MA in media studies from The New School. Her collections of poetry include Bliss to Fill (2000), The Opening Question (2004), which won the Fence Modern Poets Prize, Infamous Landscapes (2007), Undergloom (2013), and Grief Sequence (2019). Sharma has spoken of her work in terms of thought rather than narrative. In Willow Springs, she noted, “It’s important to explore a variety of cognitive experiences in the poem rather than just telling a story.” Sharma’s honors and awards include a Howard Foundation Award. She has taught at the New School, Goddard College, and the University of Montana-Missoula. She is the Henry G. Lee professor of English at Pomona College as well as the founder and president of the conference Thinking Its Presence: Race, Creative Writing, and Literary Studies. ✔︎ https://twitter.com/prapra ✔︎ https://www.instagram.com/prapramt . . . . . . . The Poetry Vlog is a YouTube Channel and Podcast dedicated to building social justice coalitions through poetry, pop culture, cultural studies, and related arts dialogues. Full episodes include guests that range from unpublished and poetry-adjacent community stake-holders, to award-winning poets and scholars, to C. R.'s own students. The Poetry Vlog across its distribution channels believes in the worlds we can build through dialogue-based knowledge production, supporting open access scholarship, community-based research, and accessible pedagogy. The Winter 2020 Student Team: Parker Kennedy - Video Editor Evelyn Niu - Video Editor Kristin Ruopp - Digital Marketing Reagan Welsh - Social Media & Communications Cheryl Wu - Content Writer & Designer Subscribe to our channel to join our fast-growing arts & scholarship community: ✔︎ http://youtube.com/c/thepoetryvlog?sub_confirmation=1 The Poetry Vlog Podcast: ✔︎ https://www.anchor.fm/thepoetryvlog . . . . . . . Receive FREE snail mail stickers and magnets with newsletter sign-up at: ✔︎ https://www.thepoetryvlog.com Say hi: ✔︎ http://instagram.com/thepoetryvlog ✔︎ http://www.twitter.com/thepoetryvlog ✔︎ https://www.facebook.com/thepoetryvlog ✔︎ https://www.thepoetryvlog.com Support this project: ✔︎ https://anchor.fm/thepoetryvlog/support . . . . . . . Catch up on Seasons 1 & 2: ✔︎ https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLsIc9vBng_A0scPpg9Wa7uVmxkE_Si5Ri Season 3 of The Poetry Vlog is supported by The Simpson Center for the Humanities, with support from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and the Jack Straw Cultural Center.

Poet Jericho Brown joins TPV and reads his original work, discusses religion and the symbolism behind flowers in his writing, and the issues surrounding our search for similarities between ourselves and others. Listen to the podcast edition here: https://anchor.fm/thepoetryvlog/episodes/S3--E10-Jericho-Brown-on-Religion--Flowers--and-Insight-through-Writing-eacqef Jericho Brown is the recipient of fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard, and the National Endowment for the Arts, and he is the winner of the Whiting Writer's Award. Brown’s first book, Please (New Issues 2008), won the American Book Award. His second book, The New Testament (Copper Canyon 2014), won the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award. His third collection is The Tradition (Copper Canyon 2019). His poems have appeared in The Bennington Review, Buzzfeed, Fence, jubilat, The New Republic, The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Paris Review, TIME magazine, and several volumes of The Best American Poetry. He is an associate professor and the director of the Creative Writing Program at Emory University. ✔︎ https://www.jerichobrown.com ✔︎ https://twitter.com/jerichobrown ✔︎ https://www.instagram.com/jerichobrown1 ✔︎ https://www.facebook.com/jerichobrown . . . . . . . The Poetry Vlog is a YouTube Channel and Podcast dedicated to building social justice coalitions through poetry, pop culture, cultural studies, and related arts dialogues. Full episodes include guests that range from unpublished and poetry-adjacent community stake-holders, to award-winning poets and scholars, to C. R.'s own students. The Poetry Vlog across its distribution channels believes in the worlds we can build through dialogue-based knowledge production, supporting open access scholarship, community-based research, and accessible pedagogy. Subscribe to our channel to join our fast-growing arts & scholarship community: ✔︎ http://youtube.com/c/thepoetryvlog?sub_confirmation=1 The Poetry Vlog Podcast: ✔︎ https://www.anchor.fm/thepoetryvlog . . . . . . . Receive FREE snail mail stickers and magnets with newsletter sign-up at: ✔︎ https://www.thepoetryvlog.com Say hi: ✔︎ http://instagram.com/thepoetryvlog ✔︎ http://www.twitter.com/thepoetryvlog ✔︎ https://www.facebook.com/thepoetryvlog ✔︎ https://www.thepoetryvlog.com Support this project: ✔︎ https://anchor.fm/thepoetryvlog/support . . . . . . . Catch up on Seasons 1 & 2: ✔︎ https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLsIc9vBng_A0scPpg9Wa7uVmxkE_Si5Ri Season 3 of The Poetry Vlog is supported by The Simpson Center for the Humanities, with support from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and the Jack Straw Cultural Center.

Writer and educator Rachel Edelman returns to TPV, reciting and discussing her original work, exploring connections between lineage, migration, and matriarchy, and unpacking the music and meaning from Hooray for the Riff Raff. Rachel Edelman grew up in a Jewish family in Memphis, Tennessee. Raised with a keen commitment to social justice and love of the outdoors, she spent much of her childhood reading historical fiction in her grandparents' magnolia tree. Rachel holds MFA in poetry from the University of Washington, where she taught composition and creative writing. She has been awarded an artist's residency at The Mineral School at Mt. Rainier, a Loren D. Milliman Fellowship, and two Academy of American Poets Prizes. Her poems, essays, and criticism have been published or are forthcoming in publications such as Beloit Poetry Journal, The Threepenny Review, Poetry Northwest, Southern Humanities Review, Scout Poetry, and The Critical Flame. She is currently at work on collections of poems and essays. Rachel graduated from Amherst College with a B.A. cum laude in English and geology. Following her undergraduate studies, she worked as an environmental educator and non-profit communications and development officer in Maine and Colorado. She now teaches high school English in Seattle. ✔︎ https://www.rachelsedelman.com ✔︎ https://twitter.com/rachelsedelman ✔︎ https://www.instagram.com/rachelsedelman . . . . . . . The Poetry Vlog is a YouTube Channel and Podcast dedicated to building social justice coalitions through poetry, pop culture, cultural studies, and related arts dialogues. Full episodes include guests that range from unpublished and poetry-adjacent community stake-holders, to award-winning poets and scholars, to C. R.'s own students. The Poetry Vlog across its distribution channels believes in the worlds we can build through dialogue-based knowledge production, supporting open access scholarship, community-based research, and accessible pedagogy. The Fall 2019 Student Team: Mandy Cook - Team Manager Wil Engstrom - Video Editor Parker Kennedy - Video Editor Kristin Ruopp - Digital Marketing & Outreach Reagan Welsh - Social Media & Communications Mel Kuoch - Video Editor Subscribe to our channel to join our fast-growing arts & scholarship community: ✔︎ http://youtube.com/c/thepoetryvlog?sub_confirmation=1 The Poetry Vlog Podcast: ✔︎ https://www.anchor.fm/thepoetryvlog . . . . . . . Receive FREE snail mail stickers and magnets with newsletter sign-up at: ✔︎ https://www.thepoetryvlog.com Say hi: ✔︎ http://instagram.com/thepoetryvlog ✔︎ http://www.twitter.com/thepoetryvlog ✔︎ https://www.facebook.com/thepoetryvlog ✔︎ https://www.thepoetryvlog.com Support this project: ✔︎ https://anchor.fm/thepoetryvlog/support . . . . . . . Catch up on Seasons 1 & 2: ✔︎ https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLsIc9vBng_A0scPpg9Wa7uVmxkE_Si5Ri Season 3 of The Poetry Vlog is supported by The Simpson Center for the Humanities, with support from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and the Jack Straw Cultural Center.

Writer and educator Casandra Lopez reads and discusses her original work, the ethics of trauma narratives, & fostering art, creativity, and connection through car remodeling. Mentioned in this episode: ✔︎ Barbara Christian, "The Race for Theory" (https://pullias.usc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/christian.pdf) ✔︎ Kara Keeling, "Critical Theory and Popular Education" (https://www.academia.edu/8630216/Critical_Theory_and_Popular_Education) ✔︎ Dylan Miner (http://dylanminer.com) Casandra Lopez is a Chicana and California Indian (Cahuilla/Tongva/Luiseño) writer who’s received support from CantoMundo, Bread Loaf and Jackstraw. She’s been selected for residencies with the School of Advanced Research and Hedgebrook. Her chapbook, Where Bullet Breaks was published by the Sequoyah National Research Center and her poetry collection, Brother Bullet is forthcoming from University of Arizona. She’s a founding editor of As/Us: A Space For Women Of The World and teaches at Northwest Indian College. ✔︎ https://casandramlopez.com ✔︎ https://twitter.com/casandramlopez . . . . . . . The Poetry Vlog is a YouTube Channel and Podcast dedicated to building social justice coalitions through poetry, pop culture, cultural studies, and related arts dialogues. Full episodes include guests that range from unpublished and poetry-adjacent community stake-holders, to award-winning poets and scholars, to C. R.'s own students. The Poetry Vlog across its distribution channels believes in the worlds we can build through dialogue-based knowledge production, supporting open access scholarship, community-based research, and accessible pedagogy. The Fall 2019 Student Team: Mandy Cook - Team Manager Wil Engstrom - Video Editor Parker Kennedy - Video Editor Kristin Ruopp - Digital Marketing & Outreach Reagan Welsh - Social Media & Communications Mel Kuoch - Video Editor Subscribe to our channel to join our fast-growing arts & scholarship community: ✔︎ http://youtube.com/c/thepoetryvlog?sub_confirmation=1 The Poetry Vlog Podcast: ✔︎ https://www.anchor.fm/thepoetryvlog . . . . . . . Receive FREE snail mail stickers and magnets with newsletter sign-up at: ✔︎ https://www.thepoetryvlog.com Say hi: ✔︎ http://instagram.com/thepoetryvlog ✔︎ http://www.twitter.com/thepoetryvlog ✔︎ https://www.facebook.com/thepoetryvlog ✔︎ https://www.thepoetryvlog.com Support this project: ✔︎ https://anchor.fm/thepoetryvlog/support . . . . . . . Catch up on Seasons 1 & 2: ✔︎ https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLsIc9vBng_A0scPpg9Wa7uVmxkE_Si5Ri Season 3 of The Poetry Vlog is supported by The Simpson Center for the Humanities, with support from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and the Jack Straw Cultural Center.

This week, poet Julie Carr reads from her most recent work and discusses poetry as it relates to installation art, the body in relation to performance and dance, the resurgence of the lyric, and the concept of blending the self. Listen to the podcast version here: https://anchor.fm/thepoetryvlog/episodes/S3--E7-Julie-Carr-on-Poetry--Installation-Art--and-the-Blending-of-the-Selves-e934sm Born and raised in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Julie Carr lives in Denver with Tim Roberts and their three children. She is the author of seven books of poetry and two works of prose, with forthcoming works in both genres. Her poems and essays have appeared in such journals as The Nation, Boston Review, APR, New American Writing, Denver Quarterly, Volt, A Public Space, 1913, The Baffler and elsewhere. Her work has appeared in several anthologies, including: The Best American Poetry (Sribner); Not for Mothers Only (Fence Books); Poets on Teaching (University of Iowa Press); Postmodern American Poetry: A Norton Anthology (W.W. Norton); Lit from Inside: 40 Years of Poetry from Alice James Books; and &NOW Awards 2: The Best Innovative Writing 2013, The Force of What's Possible: Writers on Accessibility & the Avant-Garde (Nightboat Books), Family Resemblance: An Anthology and Exploration of Eight Hybrid Literary Genres (Rose Metal Press), The Volta Book of Poets (Sidebrow Books) among others. Honors and awards include The Sawtooth Poetry Award, A National Poetry Series selection, and a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship (2010-2011). A former dancer, she now collaborates regularly with dance-artist K.J. Holmes. With Tim Roberts she is the co-director of Counterpath, an independent literary press and a bookstore/gallery/performance space/community garden in Denver. She is an Associate Professor at the University of Colorado in Boulder in the English department and the Intermedia Arts Writing and Performance Ph.D. where she teaches courses in poetry and poetics from the eighteenth century to the present. ✔︎ http://www.juliecarrpoet.com ✔︎ https://www.reallifeaninstallation.com Julie's Recommendations: ✔︎ NOS (disorder, not otherwise specified) by Aby Kaupang & Matthew Cooperman ✔︎ Ghostly Matters by Avery Gordon ✔︎ The Hawthorn Archive: Letters from the Utopian Margins by Avery Gordon ✔︎ http://counterpathpress.org . . . . . . . The Poetry Vlog is a YouTube Channel and Podcast dedicated to building social justice coalitions through poetry, pop culture, cultural studies, and related arts dialogues. Full episodes include guests that range from unpublished and poetry-adjacent community stake-holders, to award-winning poets and scholars, to C. R.'s own students. The Poetry Vlog across its distribution channels believes in the worlds we can build through dialogue-based knowledge production, supporting open access scholarship, community-based research, and accessible pedagogy. The Fall 2019 Student Team: Mandy Cook - Team Manager Wil Engstrom - Video Editor Parker Kennedy - Video Editor Kristin Ruopp - Digital Marketing & Outreach Reagan Welsh - Social Media & Communications Mel Kuoch - Video Editor Subscribe to our channel to join our fast-growing arts & scholarship community: ✔︎ http://youtube.com/c/thepoetryvlog?sub_confirmation=1 The Poetry Vlog Podcast: ✔︎ https://www.anchor.fm/thepoetryvlog . . . . . . . Receive FREE snail mail stickers and magnets with newsletter sign-up at: ✔︎ https://www.thepoetryvlog.com Say hi: ✔︎ http://instagram.com/thepoetryvlog ✔︎ http://www.twitter.com/thepoetryvlog ✔︎ https://www.facebook.com/thepoetryvlog ✔︎ https://www.thepoetryvlog.com Support this project: ✔︎ https://anchor.fm/thepoetryvlog/support . . . . . . . Catch up on Seasons 1 & 2: ✔︎ https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLsIc9vBng_A0scPpg9Wa7uVmxkE_Si5Ri Season 3 of The Poetry Vlog is supported by The Simpson Center for the Humanities, with support from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and the Jack Straw Cultural Center.

Poet and teacher Laura Da’ reads her new work & discusses the concept of "city" in the Shawnee language, understanding health and the body in relation to the mind and colonialism, and the effects of proper nouns in writing. Listen to the podcast version here: https://anchor.fm/thepoetryvlog/episodes/S3--E6-Laura-Da-on-the-Shawnee-Concept-of-City--Health--the-Body--and-Proper-Nouns-e8timc Laura Da’ is a poet and teacher. A lifetime resident of the Pacific Northwest, Da’ studied creative writing at the University of Washington and The Institute of American Indian Arts. Da’ is Eastern Shawnee. She is a recipient of the Native American Arts and Cultures Fellowship, an Artist Trust Fellowship, and fellowships from Hugo House and the Jack Straw Writers Program. Her first book, Tributaries, won the 2016 American Book Award. Her latest book is Instruments of the True Measure, published by the University of Arizona Press. ✔︎ http://www.laurada.com ✔︎ https://twitter.com/laura_l_da ✔︎ https://www.facebook.com/lauralda On her book, Instruments of the True Measure: Instruments of the True Measure charts the coordinates and intersections of land, history, and culture. Lyrical passages map the parallel lives of ancestral figures and connect dispossessions of the past to lived experiences of the present. Shawnee history informs the collection, and Da’s fascination with uncovering and recovering brings the reader deeper into the narrative of Shawnee homeland. Images of forced removal and frontier violence reveal the wrenching loss and reconfiguration of the Shawnee as a people. The body and history become lands that are measured and plotted with precise instruments. Surveying and geography underpin the collection, but even as Da’ investigates these signifiers of measurement, she pushes the reader to interrogate their function within the stark atrocities of American history. More on Laura Da’: ✔︎ https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/laura-da ✔︎ https://poets.org/poet/laura-da ✔︎ https://www.nativeartsandcultures.org/laura-da ✔︎ https://uapress.arizona.edu/2018/09/exploring-instruments-of-the-true-measure-with-laura-da . . . . . . . The Poetry Vlog is a YouTube Channel and Podcast dedicated to building social justice coalitions through poetry, pop culture, cultural studies, and related arts dialogues. Full episodes include guests that range from unpublished and poetry-adjacent community stake-holders, to award-winning poets and scholars, to C. R.'s own students. The Poetry Vlog across its distribution channels believes in the worlds we can build through dialogue-based knowledge production, supporting open access scholarship, community-based research, and accessible pedagogy. The Fall 2019 Student Team: Mandy Cook - Team Manager Wil Engstrom - Video Editor Parker Kennedy - Video Editor Kristin Ruopp - Digital Marketing & Outreach Reagan Welsh - Social Media & Communications Mel Kuoch - Video Editor Subscribe to our channel to join our fast-growing arts & scholarship community: ✔︎ http://youtube.com/c/thepoetryvlog?sub_confirmation=1 The Poetry Vlog Podcast: ✔︎ https://www.anchor.fm/thepoetryvlog . . . . . . . Receive FREE snail mail stickers and magnets with newsletter sign-up at: ✔︎ https://www.thepoetryvlog.com Say hi: ✔︎ http://instagram.com/thepoetryvlog ✔︎ http://www.twitter.com/thepoetryvlog ✔︎ https://www.facebook.com/thepoetryvlog ✔︎ https://www.thepoetryvlog.com Support this project: ✔︎ https://anchor.fm/thepoetryvlog/support . . . . . . . Catch up on Seasons 1 & 2: ✔︎ https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLsIc9vBng_A0scPpg9Wa7uVmxkE_Si5Ri Season 3 of The Poetry Vlog is supported by The Simpson Center for the Humanities, with support from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and the Jack Straw Cultural Center.

Novelist SJ Sindu reads an original piece and discusses bringing poetic sensibility to prose writing, self-healing and establishing boundaries, and navigating femmephobia as a femme writer. Listen to the podcast version here: https://anchor.fm/thepoetryvlog/episodes/S3--E5-SJ-Sindu-on-Poetic-Sensibility--Navigating-Trauma---Healing-e8tifa SJ Sindu was born in Sri Lanka and raised in Massachusetts. Sindu’s first novel, Marriage of a Thousand Lies, won the Publishing Triangle Edmund White Award for Debut Fiction and the Golden Crown Literary Society Award for Debut Fiction, was selected by the American Library Association as a Stonewall Honor Book, and was a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award and the VCU First Novelist Award. Sindu is also the author of the hybrid fiction and nonfiction chapbook, I Once Met You But You Were Dead, which won the Split Lip Press Turnbuckle Chapbook Contest. An Assistant Professor at the University of Toronto, Sindu holds an M.A. in Creative Writing from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and a PhD in Creative Writing from Florida State University. Sindu’s second novel, Blue-Skinned Gods, is forthcoming from Soho Press. ✔︎ http://sjsindu.com ✔︎ https://twitter.com/SJSindu ✔︎ https://www.instagram.com/sjsindu ✔︎ https://www.facebook.com/SjSindu . . . . . . . The Poetry Vlog is a YouTube Channel and Podcast dedicated to building social justice coalitions through poetry, pop culture, cultural studies, and related arts dialogues. Full episodes include guests that range from unpublished and poetry-adjacent community stake-holders, to award-winning poets and scholars, to C. R.'s own students. The Poetry Vlog across its distribution channels believes in the worlds we can build through dialogue-based knowledge production, supporting open access scholarship, community-based research, and accessible pedagogy. The Fall 2019 Student Team: Mandy Cook - Team Manager Wil Engstrom - Video Editor Parker Kennedy - Video Editor Mel Kuoch - Video Editor Kristin Ruopp - Digital Marketing & Outreach Reagan Welsh - Social Media & Communications Subscribe to our channel to join our fast-growing arts & scholarship community: ✔︎ http://youtube.com/c/thepoetryvlog?sub_confirmation=1 The Poetry Vlog Podcast: ✔︎ https://www.anchor.fm/thepoetryvlog . . . . . . . Receive FREE snail mail stickers and magnets with newsletter sign-up at: ✔︎ https://www.thepoetryvlog.com Say hi: ✔︎ http://instagram.com/thepoetryvlog ✔︎ http://www.twitter.com/thepoetryvlog ✔︎ https://www.facebook.com/thepoetryvlog ✔︎ https://www.thepoetryvlog.com Support this project: ✔︎ https://anchor.fm/thepoetryvlog/support . . . . . . . Catch up on Seasons 1 & 2: ✔︎ https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLsIc9vBng_A0scPpg9Wa7uVmxkE_Si5Ri Season 3 of The Poetry Vlog is supported by The Simpson Center for the Humanities, with support from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and the Jack Straw Cultural Center.

Poet and educator Chen Chen reads an original poem and discusses writing trauma, vulnerability & expectations, queer kinship & community, and how it all connects with "Home Alone." Listen to the podcast version here: https://anchor.fm/thepoetryvlog/episodes/S3--E1-Poet-Chen-Chen-on-Writing-Trauma--Vulnerability--Queer-Kinship---Home-Alone-e6343p. Chen Chen is the author of When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities (BOA Editions, 2017), which was longlisted for the National Book Award and won the Thom Gunn Award, among other honors. He is also the author of four chapbooks, most recently You MUST Use the Word Smoothie (Sundress Publications, 2019) and Gesundheit! (with Sam Herschel Wein and forthcoming from Glass Poetry Press, fall 2019). His work appears in many publications, including Poetry, Poem-a-Day, The Best American Poetry (2015 & 2019), and The Best American Nonrequired Reading (2017). He has received a Pushcart Prize and fellowships from Kundiman and the National Endowment for the Arts. He holds an MFA from Syracuse University and a PhD from Texas Tech University. He teaches at Brandeis University as the Jacob Ziskind Poet-in-Residence and co-runs the journal, Underblong. He lives in Waltham, MA with his partner, Jeff Gilbert and their pug, Mr. Rupert Giles. ✔︎ https://www.chenchenwrites.com ✔︎ https://www.twitter.com/chenchenwrites ✔︎ https://www.instagram.com/chenchenwrites . . . . . . . The Poetry Vlog is a YouTube Channel and Podcast dedicated to building social justice coalitions through poetry, pop culture, cultural studies, and related arts dialogues. Full episodes include guests that range from unpublished and poetry-adjacent community stake-holders, to award-winning poets and scholars, to C. R.'s own students. The Poetry Vlog across its distribution channels believes in the worlds we can build through dialogue-based knowledge production, supporting open access scholarship, community-based research, and accessible pedagogy. The Fall 2019 Student Team: Mandy Cook - Team Manager Wil Engstrom - Video Editor Parker Kennedy - Video Editor Kristin Ruopp - Digital Marketing & Outreach Reagan Welsh - Social Media & Communications Mel Kuoch - Video Editor Subscribe to our channel to join our fast-growing arts & scholarship community: ✔︎ https://www.youtube.com/c/thepoetryvlog?sub_confirmation=1 The Poetry Vlog Podcast: ✔︎ https://www.anchor.fm/thepoetryvlog . . . . . . . Receive FREE snail mail stickers and magnets with newsletter sign-up at: ✔︎ https://www.thepoetryvlog.com Say hi: ✔︎ https://www.instagram.com/thepoetryvlog ✔︎ https://www.twitter.com/thepoetryvlog ✔︎ https://www.facebook.com/thepoetryvlog ✔︎ https://www.thepoetryvlog.com Support this project: ✔︎ https://www.anchor.fm/thepoetryvlog/support . . . . . . . Catch up on Seasons 1 & 2: ✔︎ https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLsIc9vBng_A0scPpg9Wa7uVmxkE_Si5Ri Season 3 of The Poetry Vlog is supported by The Simpson Center for the Humanities, with support from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and the Jack Straw Cultural Center.

Poet, writer, and scholar Larissa Lai reads and discusses her original works, the differences between fiction and poetry, and introduces Affect Theory as a comparison to the enlightenment-bound self. Listen to the podcast version here: https://anchor.fm/thepoetryvlog/episodes/S3--E2-Larissa-Lai-on-Fiction--Poetry---Affect-Theory-e7kqh5 Larissa Lai has authored six books including Salt Fish Girl and The Tiger Flu. Recipient of an Astraea Award and finalist for the Lambda Award, the Books in Canada First Novel Award, the Tiptree Award (twice), the Sunburst Award, the W.O. Mitchell Award (twice including this time), the bpNichol Chapbook Award, the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize and the Gabrielle Roy Prize for Literary Criticism, she holds a Canada Research Chair at the University of Calgary, where she directs The Insurgent Architects' House for Creative Writing. She makes her home in Calgary (Brentwood) where she lives with her father. ✔︎ https://www.larissalai.com/ ✔︎ https://www.tiahouse.ca/ *Thumbnail photography by Monique de St. Croix. . . . . . . . The Poetry Vlog is a YouTube Channel and Podcast dedicated to building social justice coalitions through poetry, pop culture, cultural studies, and related arts dialogues. Full episodes include guests that range from unpublished and poetry-adjacent community stake-holders, to award-winning poets and scholars, to C. R.'s own students. The Poetry Vlog across its distribution channels believes in the worlds we can build through dialogue-based knowledge production, supporting open access scholarship, community-based research, and accessible pedagogy. The Fall 2019 Student Team: Mandy Cook - Team Manager Wil Engstrom - Video Editor Parker Kennedy - Video Editor Kristin Ruopp - Digital Marketing & Outreach Reagan Welsh - Social Media & Communications Mel Kuoch - Video Editor Subscribe to our channel to join our fast-growing arts & scholarship community: ✔︎ https://www.youtube.com/c/thepoetryvlog?sub_confirmation=1 The Poetry Vlog Podcast: ✔︎ https://www.anchor.fm/thepoetryvlog . . . . . . . Receive FREE snail mail stickers and magnets with newsletter sign-up at: ✔︎ https://www.thepoetryvlog.com Say hi: ✔︎ https://www.instagram.com/thepoetryvlog ✔︎ https://www.twitter.com/thepoetryvlog ✔︎ https://www.facebook.com/thepoetryvlog ✔︎ https://www.thepoetryvlog.com Support this project: ✔︎ https://www.anchor.fm/thepoetryvlog/support . . . . . . . Catch up on Seasons 1 & 2: ✔︎ https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLsIc9vBng_A0scPpg9Wa7uVmxkE_Si5Ri Season 3 of The Poetry Vlog is supported by The Simpson Center for the Humanities, with support from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and the Jack Straw Cultural Center.

This week, writer and artist Benjamin Ficklin reads his original work and discusses cross-genres, including rhythm as a cross-genre tool in fiction writing and performance, cross-border work and violence with the writings of Roberto Bolaño, and understanding white privilege as it relates to activism. Listen to the podcast version here: https://anchor.fm/thepoetryvlog/episodes/S3--E2-Benjamin-Ficklin-on-Roberto-Bolao--Cross-Border---Cross-Genre-Work-e7srof Organizations fighting against border violence: ✔ https://southtexashumanrights.org/ ✔ https://nomoredeaths.org/en/ Related works to explore: ✔ Jade Power Sotomayer, Scholar ✔ “Lost Children Archive” by Valeria Luiselli Benjamin McPherson Ficklin was born in Portland, Oregon and now spends most of his life travelling. Outside of his writing and photography, he works as a gongfu tea-master, teacher, commercial salmon fisherman, and ulu farmer. His work has been published in Lomography, wildness, Ursus Americanus Press, Clackamas Literary Review, Autre, Objects Food Rooms, Voice Magazine, and all three anthologies by The StoneCutters Union. ✔︎ http://benmf.com ✔︎ https://twitter.com/artsbmf (@artsBMF) Benjamin’s recent works: ✔ https://www.google.com/amp/s/storgy.com/2019/10/02/a-cynical-view-of-dystopian-america-by-benjamin-mcpherson-ficklin/amp/ ✔︎ https://readwildness.com/20/ficklin-shape ✔ http://www.ursusamericanuslit.com/landfill/2017/10/1/xy0umpum2g1nbo27tu7whi8ox8zei6 ✔ https://autre.love/prosemain/2017/1/16/space-a-preface-for-the-doctor-by-benjamin-mcpherson-ficklin ✔ http://readwildness.com/16/ficklin-funeral . . . . . . . The Poetry Vlog is a YouTube Channel and Podcast dedicated to building social justice coalitions through poetry, pop culture, cultural studies, and related arts dialogues. Full episodes include guests that range from unpublished and poetry-adjacent community stake-holders, to award-winning poets and scholars, to C. R.'s own students. The Poetry Vlog across its distribution channels believes in the worlds we can build through dialogue-based knowledge production, supporting open access scholarship, community-based research, and accessible pedagogy. The Fall 2019 Student Team: Mandy Cook - Team Manager Wil Engstrom - Video Editor Parker Kennedy - Video Editor Kristin Ruopp - Digital Marketing & Outreach Reagan Welsh - Social Media & Communications Mel Kuoch - Video Editor Subscribe to our channel to join our fast-growing arts & scholarship community: ✔︎ https://www.youtube.com/c/thepoetryvlog?sub_confirmation=1 The Poetry Vlog Podcast: ✔︎ https://www.anchor.fm/thepoetryvlog . . . . . . . Receive FREE snail mail stickers and magnets with newsletter sign-up at: ✔︎ https://www.thepoetryvlog.com Say hi: ✔︎ https://www.instagram.com/thepoetryvlog ✔︎ https://www.twitter.com/thepoetryvlog ✔︎ https://www.facebook.com/thepoetryvlog ✔︎ https://www.thepoetryvlog.com Support this project: ✔︎ https://www.anchor.fm/thepoetryvlog/support . . . . . . . Catch up on Seasons 1 & 2: ✔︎ https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLsIc9vBng_A0scPpg9Wa7uVmxkE_Si5Ri Season 3 of The Poetry Vlog is supported by The Simpson Center for the Humanities, with support from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and the Jack Straw Cultural Center.

This week on The Poetry Vlog, Patrick Milian from Patrick and Pop Culture discusses Lana Del Rey’s most recent album and how it connects to the work of 20th-century poet John Ashbery. Listen to the podcast version here: https://anchor.fm/thepoetryvlog/episodes/S3--Ep-4-Patrick-Milian-on-Lana-Del-Rey--John-Ashbery--and-The-American-Dream-e893qh “The One Thing That Can Save America” by John Ashbery: ✔︎ https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/101694/the-one-thing-that-can-save-america Patrick Milian is an instructor at Green River College in Auburn, Washington. He has been a David A. Robertson Fellow, William Ralph Wayland Fellow, the recipient of a grant from the Klepser Endowment, and winner of the Richard J. Dunn Teaching Award. His poetry and creative non-fiction have appeared in Denver Quarterly, Fourteen Hills, Mid-American Review, The Offing, and The Seattle Review, for which he was a Pushcart Prize nominee. Peer-reviewed essays have appeared in Joyce Studies Annual and forthcoming in Modernism/modernity. The Gleaners, a song cycle written in collaboration with composer Emerson Eads premiered by Northwest Art Song Fall 2018, and his chapbook, "Pornographies" was published the same season. He received his PhD from the University of Washington. ✔︎ https://www.instagram.com/patrick.milian/ ✔︎ https://www.facebook.com/patrick.milian.73 . . . . . . . The Poetry Vlog is a YouTube Channel and Podcast dedicated to building social justice coalitions through poetry, pop culture, cultural studies, and related arts dialogues. Full episodes include guests that range from unpublished and poetry-adjacent community stake-holders, to award-winning poets and scholars, to C. R.'s own students. The Poetry Vlog across its distribution channels believes in the worlds we can build through dialogue-based knowledge production, supporting open access scholarship, community-based research, and accessible pedagogy. The Fall 2019 Student Team: Mandy Cook - Team Manager Wil Engstrom - Video Editor Parker Kennedy - Video Editor Kristin Ruopp - Digital Marketing & Outreach Reagan Welsh - Social Media & Communications Mel Kuoch - Video Editor Subscribe to our channel to join our fast-growing arts & scholarship community: ✔︎ https://www.youtube.com/c/thepoetryvlog?sub_confirmation=1 The Poetry Vlog Podcast: ✔︎ https://www.anchor.fm/thepoetryvlog . . . . . . . Receive FREE snail mail stickers and magnets with newsletter sign-up at: ✔︎ https://www.thepoetryvlog.com Say hi: ✔︎ https://www.instagram.com/thepoetryvlog ✔︎ https://www.twitter.com/thepoetryvlog ✔︎ https://www.facebook.com/thepoetryvlog ✔︎ https://www.thepoetryvlog.com Support this project: ✔︎ https://www.anchor.fm/thepoetryvlog/support . . . . . . . Catch up on Seasons 1 & 2: ✔︎ https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLsIc9vBng_A0scPpg9Wa7uVmxkE_Si5Ri Season 3 of The Poetry Vlog is supported by The Simpson Center for the Humanities, with support from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and the Jack Straw Cultural Center.

Get ready for Season 3 of The Poetry Vlog! Not only does Season 3 hold the widest range of guests yet — including published authors and returning guests — but this is the first season to debut with a team students behind-the-scenes. Stay tuned for the first episode of Season 3, airing in less than two weeks from today! . . . . . . . The Poetry Vlog is a YouTube Channel and Podcast dedicated to building social justice coalitions through poetry, pop culture, cultural studies, and related arts dialogues. Full episodes include guests that range from unpublished and poetry-adjacent community stake-holders, to award-winning poets and scholars, to C. R.'s own students. The Poetry Vlog across its distribution channels believes in the worlds we can build through dialogue-based knowledge production, supporting open access scholarship, community-based research, and accessible pedagogy. Subscribe to our channel to join our fast-growing arts & scholarship community: ✔︎youtube.com/c/thepoetryvlog?sub_confirmation=1 The Poetry Vlog Podcast: ✔︎anchor.fm/thepoetryvlog Receive Snail Mail stickers and magnets (FREE) with newsletter sign-up at: ✔︎thepoetryvlog.com Say hi: ✔︎ instagram.com/thepoetryvlog ✔︎ twitter.com/thepoetryvlog ✔︎ facebook.com/thepoetryvlog ✔︎ thepoetryvlog.com Catch up on Seasons 1 & 2: ✔︎youtube.com/playlist?list=PLsIc9vBng_A0scPpg9Wa7uVmxkE_Si5Ri Support this project: ✔︎ anchor.fm/thepoetryvlog/support Season 3 of The Poetry Vlog is supported by The Simpson Center for the Humanities, with support from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and the Jack Straw Cultural Center.

The Poetry Vlog is a YouTube Channel and Podcast dedicated to building social justice coalitions through poetry, pop culture, cultural studies, and related arts dialogues. Season 1 debuted in Fall 2018 and Season 2 in Winter 2019. After a June 2019 break, Season 3 will be funded by an Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Summer Fellowship, with training and support provided by the Jack Straw Cultural Center's Artist Support Fellowship. Full episodes include guests that range from unpublished and poetry-adjacent community stake-holders, to award-winning poets and scholars, to C. R.'s own students. The Poetry Vlog across its distribution channels believes in the worlds we can build through dialogue-based knowledge production, supporting open access scholarship, community-based research, and accessible pedagogy. Join us by subscribing to our channel (just click the "subscribe" button and it will add you from your Google account) to support the free education project and join our fast-growing arts and scholarship community: https://www.youtube.com/c/thepoetryvlog?sub_confirmation=1 Podcast Edition of This Episode: ✔︎ https://www.anchor.fm/thepoetryvlog - About:This episode includes discussion of Susan Sontag's "Notes on Camp" through fashion analysis of Janelle Monae, Lena Waithe, Harry Styles, Dakota Johnson, and Billy Porter at the Met Gala 2019. We talk about how their outfits are/are not camp through what was a facebook live teach-in over at facebook.com/thepoetryvlog. This episode builds out of our earlier chat on HIV, Poetry, DA Powell, Camp, Disco, and Queer Histories of "Spilling the Tea" (linked below). If you've been curious about "what is camp" and how is it a historical aesthetic specific to queer and QTPOC spaces, we offer "six rules" of what makes something "camp," which pretty much leaves us asking: is it even camp if it's a theme at the Met Gala? What is our responsibility as queers engaged in camp aesthetic to pay homage to camp's history and produce the subversive "tastelessness" that camp has always offered? - The episode with Patrick Milian from Patrick and Pop Culture on camp, disco, and DA Powell: ✔︎ https://bit.ly/ondapowell - Receive Snail Mail stickers and magnets (FREE) with newsletter sign-up at: ✔︎ https://thepoetryvlog.com Become a patron of The Poetry Vlog Education Project: ✔︎ https://www.anchor.fm/thepoetryvlog/support The Every Day Things (yes, if you are my student it’s ok to follow me on IG): ✔︎ https://www.instagram.com/thepoetryvlog Cross-Platform Clips & Updates: ✔︎ https://www.facebook.com/thepoetryvlog Commentary & Connection: ✔︎ https://www.twitter.com/thepoetryvlog

The Poetry Vlog is a YouTube Channel and Podcast dedicated to building social justice coalitions through poetry, pop culture, cultural studies, and related arts dialogues. Season 1 debuted in Fall 2018 and Season 2 in Winter 2019. After a June 2019 break, Season 3 will be funded by an Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Summer Fellowship, with training and support provided by the Jack Straw Cultural Center's Artist Support Fellowship. Full episodes include guests that range from unpublished and poetry-adjacent community stake-holders, to award-winning poets and scholars, to C. R.'s own students. The Poetry Vlog across its distribution channels believes in the worlds we can build through dialogue-based knowledge production, supporting open access scholarship, community-based research, and accessible pedagogy. Join us by subscribing to our channel (just click the "subscribe" button and it will add you from your Google account) to support the free education project and join our fast-growing arts and scholarship community: https://www.youtube.com/c/thepoetryvlog?sub_confirmation=1 Podcast Edition of This Episode: ✔︎ https://www.anchor.fm/thepoetryvlog - About: It's pride month! And the end of the school year! To wrap up this year, Vicco Naylor reads two of their poems. We workshop them with an emphasis on line breaks and imagery, then, discuss trans poetry and poetics (and queer poetry and poetics) -- especially how poetry can disrupt gender binaries. It is an honor and thrill to feature a student to round out an incredible year of learning and developing these materials. Show Vicco your support by leaving ratings in iTunes (see below for podcast edition), voice messages over on Anchor.fm/thepoetryvlog, or a comment below :). More on Vicco: Vicco is a graduating senior pursuing a B.A. in creative writing from the University of Washington. They are an emotional trans poet who gains energy from the queer and trans communities around them. Vicco loves helping youth explore their craft and their developing selfhood. Vicco is extremely passionate about transforming the educational institution into a system that counters white supremacy and settler-colonialism, rather than upholds it: ✔︎ https://www.vicco-g-naylor.com/ ✔︎ https://www.instagram.com/vicco_exists ✔︎ https://www.twitter.com/vicco_exists - Receive Snail Mail stickers and magnets (FREE) with newsletter sign-up at: ✔︎ https://thepoetryvlog.com Become a patron of The Poetry Vlog Education Project: ✔︎ https://www.anchor.fm/thepoetryvlog/support The Every Day Things (yes, if you are my student it’s ok to follow me on IG): ✔︎ https://www.instagram.com/thepoetryvlog Cross-Platform Clips & Updates: ✔︎ https://www.facebook.com/thepoetryvlog Commentary & Connection: ✔︎ https://www.twitter.com/thepoetryvlog