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In this episode of The Poetry Vlog (TPV), poet and screenwriter Tommy "Teebs" Pico reads from his book JUNK (Tin House, 2018) to lead a discussion on the work in poetry and screenwriting to "tether" disparate ideas and create meaning. This episode will be re-edited and adapted with a Critical Framing and sample lesson plans in The Poetry Vlog: Critical Edition. Forthcoming from University of Michigan Press, Fulcrum.
View the Video Version (includes transcript): https://youtu.be/THSAGlrXzic/.
Learn more about the series:
https://www.thepoetryvlog.com/thepoetryvlog/
In this episode of The Poetry Vlog (TPV), Cameron Awkward-Rich reads the poem "Black Feeling" from his book Dispatch (Persea Books, 2019) to lead a discussion on the dialectical complexity within Black and trans social identities. The poem expands on an encounter he has while in transit on the bus with an elder retired cop to contemplate uneven, overlapping, and even paradoxical power dynamics around race, gender, class, sex, sexuality, and education. This episode will be re-edited and adapted with a Critical Framing and sample lesson plans in The Poetry Vlog: Critical Edition. Forthcoming from University of Michigan Press, Fulcrum.
Learn more about the series at:
https://www.thepoetryvlog.com/thepoetryvlog/
Award-winning poet Tyrone Williams discusses his poetry in On Spec, the paradox of representation and race in poetry and social media, and how academia and geographic locations impact these conversations.
Poet Tyrone Williams was born in Detroit, Michigan and earned his BA, MA, and PhD at Wayne State University. He is the author of a number of chapbooks, including Convalescence (1987); Futures, Elections (2004); Musique Noir (2006); and Pink Tie (2011), among others. His full-length collections of poetry include c.c. (2002), On Spec (2008), The Hero Project (2009), Adventures of Pi (2011), and Howell (2011).
Captions and transcript available in the YouTube Version of this episode:
https://youtu.be/bKib-TSXGNE
Learn more about the series at:
https://www.thepoetryvlog.com/thepoetryvlog/
In this episode of TPV, Woogee Bae discusses environmental poetry, or ecopoetry, as a way build community. She reads from Eric Sneathen's "Snail Poems" and shares the zine-making process behind the journal she edits, Snail Trail Press. This episode will be re-edited and adapted with a Critical Framing and sample lesson plans in The Poetry Vlog: Critical Edition. Forthcoming from University of Michigan Press, Fulcrum.
Captions and transcript available in the YouTube Edition:
https://youtu.be/JlRIkuJzMhw
September 17, 6pm Central Time (4pm Pacific Time) The Poetry Vlog hosted a reading and discussion of Fracture Anthology: a poetry chapbook and audiobook by Joshua Burton that features a visual art collaboration with Zumbambico and handmade book arts production from the publisher, Sara Lefsyk of Ethel. Started in 2018, Ethel is a twice-yearly limited-edition, hand-made journal of writing and art and a micro-press specializing in handmade and hand-bound chapbooks and mini-books. Joshua is joined by visual artist Zumbambico and publisher of Ethel, Sara Lefsyk. Hosted by C. R. Grimmer on The Poetry Vlog (TPV).
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. For a transcript of this episode, visit the YouTube edition at https://www.youtube.com/c/thepoetryvlog. Learn more about this project at https://www.thepoetryvlog.com/thepoetryvlog.
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). Learn more at https://www.thepoetryvlog.com/thepoetryvlog. For a transcript of this episode, visit the YouTube edition at https://www.youtube.com/c/thepoetryvlog.
Watch the YouTube episode here: (https://youtu.be/Hl1jWydoCOI)
Author Somaiya Daud returns and discusses erasure in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, how the comic Monstress gets it right, and about representation and perspective in writing characters and story lines.
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About Somaiya:
Somaiya lives, works, and writes from Seattle, Washington. In 2018 her debut novel, Mirage, was released in the United States with Flatiron Books and the United Kingdom with Hodder & Stoughton. It was hailed as “poetically written”, “immersive and captivating” and “beautiful and necessary” by The School Library Journal, Booklist and Entertainment Weekly. Mirage has been shortlisted for the Children’s Africana Book Award and the Arab American Book Award. In 2020 Somaiya received her PhD in English Literature studies with a focus on world literature and nineteenth-century orientalism.
Website: (https://www.somaiyabooks.com) //
Twitter: (@somaiyadaud) //
Instagram: (@somaiiiya) //
● 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. Subscribe to our YouTube channel to join our fast-growing arts & scholarship community (youtube.com/c/thepoetryvlog?sub_confirmation=1). Connect with us on Instagram (instagram.com/thepoetryvlog), Twitter (twitter.com/thepoetryvlog), Facebook (facebook.com/thepoetryvlog), and our website (thepoetryvlog.com). Sign up for our newsletter on (thepoetryvlog.com) and get a free snail-mail welcome kit! ●
The Spring 2020 Student Team:
Gene Wang - Video Editor //
Emily Oomen - Video Editor //
Mimi Hoang - Illustrator //
Cheryl Wu - Content Writer & Designer //
Kristin Ruopp - Digital Marketing Coordinator //
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.
Join student team member Kristin for a quick tutorial on jump-starting your productivity during quarantine, whether you're learning or working from home. Click here for the PDF of this episode designed by Mimi Hoang: https://www.thepoetryvlog.com/kristin-and-mimi-s-handout
Resources from this episode: https://www.seattle.gov/mayor/covid-19#healthcarehygienesupport
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About Kristin:
Kristin (she/her) studies Sociology and Comparative Literature and is in her last year at UW. Originally from Connecticut, she moved to Seattle in 2015 and earned her associate’s at North Seattle College before transferring to UW. She is a fan of hiking, long road trips, spooky movies, and ice cream. Kristin currently works at a history museum and lives in Capitol Hill with her orange tabby, Marceline.
About Mimi:
Mimi Hoang (she/her) is a current standing junior working to earn her B.A in English at the University of Washington. She also hopes to work up to get a Masters in Library Science to work at her local library one day. Outside of school, she is an artist, a writer, a hobbyist and a world-builder who works on character design for fun. In her spare time, she enjoys playing video games, playing Dungeons and Dragons, watching anime, cooking, baking, sleeping, and most of all, drawing.
● 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. Subscribe to our YouTube channel to join our fast-growing arts & scholarship community (youtube.com/c/thepoetryvlog?sub_confirmation=1). Connect with us on Instagram (instagram.com/thepoetryvlog), Twitter (twitter.com/thepoetryvlog), Facebook (facebook.com/thepoetryvlog), and our website (thepoetryvlog.com). Sign up for our newsletter on (thepoetryvlog.com) and get a free snail-mail welcome kit! ●
The Spring 2020 Student Team:
Gene Wang - Video Editor //
Emily Oomen - Video Editor //
Mimi Hoang - Illustrator //
Cheryl Wu - Content Writer & Designer //
Kristin Ruopp - Digital Marketing Coordinator //
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.
Watch the YouTube episode here: (https://youtu.be/FsRWdc1b_z0)
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.
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About Jane:
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.
Website: (janewongwriter.com) //
Instagram: (@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. Subscribe to our YouTube channel to join our fast-growing arts & scholarship community (youtube.com/c/thepoetryvlog?sub_confirmation=1). Connect with us on Instagram (instagram.com/thepoetryvlog), Twitter (twitter.com/thepoetryvlog), Facebook (facebook.com/thepoetryvlog), and our website (thepoetryvlog.com). Sign up for our newsletter on (thepoetryvlog.com) and get a free snail-mail welcome kit! ●
The Spring 2020 Student Team:
Gene Wang - Video Editor //
Emily Oomen - Video Editor //
Mimi Hoang - Illustrator //
Cheryl Wu - Content Writer & Designer //
Kristin Ruopp - Digital Marketing Coordinator //
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 podcast currently has 218 episodes available.