The Poetry Vlog (TPV): A Poetry, Arts, & Social Justice Teaching Channel

This one goes out to my sweetheart from when we were 19/21 (respectively). Yes, sometimes pop music lyrics read as poetry! This is "Exiles Among You" from John K. Samson's book, "Lyrics and Poems: 1997 - 2012." It is also a song from his band, The Weakerthans. If you have more song lyrics you want me to try reading as I would regularly poems, send them my way and we will see how it goes. For links to the song itself and the writer: (johnksamson.com). For the Patrick and Pop Culture Holiday playlist: (open.spotify.com/playlist/0L8Rf0UnYXjO8HRXoMy0zD). ● 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).

This one goes out to my sweetheart from when we were 19/21 (respectively). Yes, sometimes pop music lyrics read as poetry! This is "Night Windows" from John K. Samson's book, "Lyrics and Poems: 1997 - 2012." It is also a song from his band, The Weakerthans. If you have more song lyrics you want me to try reading as I would regularly poems, send them my way and we will see how it goes. For links to the song itself and the writer: (johnksamson.com). For the Patrick and Pop Culture Holiday playlist: (open.spotify.com/playlist/0L8Rf0UnYXjO8HRXoMy0zD). ● 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).

This one goes out to my sweetheart from when we were 19/21 (respectively). Yes, sometimes pop music lyrics read as poetry! This is "Hymn of the Medical Oddity" from John K. Samson's book, "Lyrics and Poems: 1997 - 2012." It is also a song from his band, The Weakerthans. If you have more song lyrics you want me to try reading as I would regularly poems, send them my way and we will see how it goes. For links to the song itself and the writer: (johnksamson.com). For the Patrick and Pop Culture Holiday playlist: (open.spotify.com/playlist/0L8Rf0UnYXjO8HRXoMy0zD). ● 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).

This one goes out to my sweetheart from when we were 19/21 (respectively). Yes, sometimes pop music lyrics read as poetry! This is "Diagnosis" by John K. Samson's book, "Lyrics and Poems: 1997 - 2012." If you have more song lyrics you want me to try reading as I would regularly poems, send them my way and we will see how it goes. For links to the song itself and the writer: (http://johnksamson.com/). For the Patrick and Pop Culture Holiday playlist: (open.spotify.com/playlist/0L8Rf0UnYXjO8HRXoMy0zD). ● 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).

Welcome to "Patrick and Pop Culture: A 1994 Very Holiday!." We listen to and discuss metaphor and metonym in Mariah Carey's "All I Want for Christmas," then connect this to T. S. Eliot's "Journey of the Magi" of all things, and then somehow wind up ending on some great ways to think about the ethics of reading and the work of pushing against fascist rhetorical frameworks. It's four parts, it's funny, and it's hopefully fun. Let us know what you think at (thepoetryvlog.com), by leaving a rating in Apple podcasts, or commenting on the YouTube edition (which, as always, has some great bonus content and is not quite the same as the podcast)! For the Patrick and Pop Culture Holiday playlist: (open.spotify.com/playlist/0L8Rf0UnYXjO8HRXoMy0zD). ● 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).

Today's flash briefing poetry reading is T. S. Eliot's famous, "Journey of the Magi," this time read by Patrick Milian. Links below to T. S. Eliot himself reading it, but stay tuned for the upcoming "Patrick and Pop Culture: A 1994 Holiday" episode. We put Mariah Carey and T. S. Eliot in conversation, explore metaphors and metonym in both music theory and poetry, and make a case for anti-fascist reading practices -- all while making a gingerbread house! We read this one poem two very, very different ways, so enjoy the unexpected coalition that emerges. For the Patrick and Pop Culture Holiday playlist: (open.spotify.com/playlist/0L8Rf0UnYXjO8HRXoMy0zD). ● 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).

Today's flash briefing poetry reading is Gabrielle Bates from way back when we did poetry comics and BoJack Horseman (literally, search that on YouTube and/or The Poetry Podcast and glean her amazingness from that longer episode!). Her poem, "How Judas Died," came out in Gulf Coast: A Journal of Literature & Arts, today. To celebrate, she's reading it to you here! If nothing else, it should inspire you to spend a solid lunch ($12) on purchasing the most recent issue of the journal, because supporting small print presses and journals is rad. More on Gabrielle Bates -- Gabrielle Bates works at Open Books: A Poem Emporium and edits for the Seattle Review, Poetry Northwest, Broadsided Press, and Bull City Press. The recipient of support from the Bread Loaf Writers Conference, Hugo House, and Artist Trust, her poems and poetry comics appear in The New Yorker, Poetry, New England Review, and jubilat, among other journals. Originally from Birmingham, Alabama, she currently lives in Seattle. You can find more of her work at (www.gabriellebat.es). Link to purchasing the issue and reading the poem yourself: Either through GC's ordering page  (https://gulfcoastmag.org/purchase/subscribe/) (click the button that says "Domestic" then choose "Single Issue (Latest)" from the drop-down menu). Or go through (http://gulfcoastmag.org/journal/31.1-winter/spring-2019/how-judas-died/). ● 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).

Today's flash briefing poetry reading is T. S. Eliot's famous, "Journey of the Magi." Links below to him reading it, but stay tuned for the upcoming "Patrick and Pop Culture: A 1994 Holiday" episode. We will put Mariah Carey and T. S. Eliot in conversation while making a gingerbread house, because we read this one poem two very, very different ways. For the Patrick and Pop Culture Holiday playlist: (https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0L8Rf0UnYXjO8HRXoMy0zD). ● 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).

Today's flash briefing poetry reading is a submission by J. Cirillo in Portland, OR. I give out postcards and ask listeners to mail them back with what they are reading/listening to/watching that gives them hope, and J.'s was the first to come back. Even better: it had an original poem on it! It made my day and I am happy to share it hear and promote J.'s work. I love submissions like this, so visit (thepoetryvlog.com); interactive links will give you ways to submit requests, original work, or audio recordings of your own to the weekly flash briefing poetry readings. Hope to hear from many of you! ● 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).

Link to the YouTube Episode: (www.youtube.com/channel/UClQ9v_r99FxQOzLrTVBic6A?). In this episode, one of my former students and now dear friend and colleague, Ananya Garg, talks about how Nikki Giovanni and Fatimah Asghar's poetry inspires her, followed by a longer discussion on why we use line breaks (or don't) in poems. Finally, we spend the last 13 minutes on Ananya's amazing piece, "Mango," workshopping it for you all and discussing future possible ways to play around with it. For bonus content, check out the YouTube episode. More on Ananya -- Ananya is a poet, student, performer, organizer, and artist. For more info and bookings: (ananyagarg.com) and (twitter.com/originalananya). ● 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).