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

This week, special guest Ananya Garg reads you three pieces. We have finally reached the original content: Ananya's own poem, "Mango"! Stay tuned for our longer discussion on both YouTube and podcast! 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).

This week, special guest Ananya Garg reads you three pieces. Today we are into the second our line-up: Fatimah Asghar's "Partition." Stay tuned for an original piece by Ananya tomorrow, and then for our longer discussion on both YouTube and podcast! 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).

This week, special guest Ananya Garg reads you three pieces. We start with Nikki Giovanni's "Swinging on a Rainbow," but stay tuned for an original piece later this week and then for a longer discussion on both YouTube and podcast! 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).

This week, special guest all the way from Dallas, Texas is in conversation with us on The Poetry Vlog: Alisha Woodall. She reads some of her own art and poetry, discusses her work as a licensed therapist, and shares with us therapeutic tools for repairing our relationships to ourselves and one another in the social media era. Stick with the bad audio in the beginning for the gems that really emerge at around the 16 minute mark. Alisha is a gifted speaker who articulately explains how we can re-examine how we think about our bodies as how we think about ourselves, and from there, how we can better see and enact ethical relationships to one another. And poetry, in our conversation, becomes one way to do that. More on Alisha -- Alisha Woodall is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC-S), postpartum doula, and founder of Finding the Foundation, a private counseling practice based in Dallas, Texas. Through professional counsel, Alisha assists clients along their journey of discovery and heightened self-awareness. Passionate about improvement and empowerment, she specializes on issues related to self esteem, emotional management and romantic resolve. Finding the Foundation is committed to helping individuals dig deeper in effort to grow stronger! (FindingTheFoundation.com) // (TheInnertreat.eventbrite.com) // IG: FindingTheFoundation // FB: Alisha Woodall, LPC-S. ● 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 week, special guest all the way from Dallas, Texas reads her work to you: Alisha Woodall. Here, she reads her original piece, "Naked Visions." You can also hear her visual and audio poem, "The Brand" in yesterday's Flash briefing. To see the full piece from "The Brand," visit (instagram.com/thepoetryvlog), where I also hyperlink to her rich Instagram account. More on Alisha -- Alisha Woodall is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC-S), postpartum doula, and founder of Finding the Foundation, a private counseling practice based in Dallas, Texas. Through professional counsel, Alisha assists clients along their journey of discovery and heightened self-awareness. Passionate about improvement and empowerment, she specializes on issues related to self esteem, emotional management and romantic resolve. Finding the Foundation is committed to helping individuals dig deeper in effort to grow stronger! (FindingTheFoundation.com) // (TheInnertreat.eventbrite.com) // IG: FindingTheFoundation // FB: Alisha Woodall, LPC-S. ● 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 week, special guest all the way from Dallas, Texas reads her work to you: Alisha Woodall. This is an audio version of her incredible visual art. See the full piece at (instagram.com/thepoetryvlog), where I also hyperlink to her rich Instagram account. More on Alisha -- Alisha Woodall is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC-S), postpartum doula, and founder of Finding the Foundation, a private counseling practice based in Dallas, Texas. Through professional counsel, Alisha assists clients along their journey of discovery and heightened self-awareness. Passionate about improvement and empowerment, she specializes on issues related to self esteem, emotional management and romantic resolve. Finding the Foundation is committed to helping individuals dig deeper in effort to grow stronger! (FindingTheFoundation.com) // (TheInnertreat.eventbrite.com) // IG: @FindingTheFoundation // FB: Alisha Woodall, LPC-S. ● 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, I continue the sequence where Patrick and I read from D. A. Powell's book, "Chronic," reading the poem, "come live with me and be my love." This is a special book to both of us, so tune in this month for an episode digging deeper into D. A. Powell's work. Let me know what you think by sending me an email, a voice message on Anchor.fm, or the contact buttons and pages on my site, (thepoetryvlog.com). More on D. A. Powell --  (https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/d-a-powell). ● 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, I continue the sequence where Patrick and I read from D. A. Powell's book, "Chronic," reading the poem, "on the tarmac." This is a special book to both of us, so tune in this month for an episode digging deeper into D. A. Powell's work. Let me know what you think by sending me an email, a voice message on Anchor.fm, or the contact buttons and pages on my site, (thepoetryvlog.com). More on D. A. Powell -- (https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/d-a-powell). ● 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).

In today's flash briefing poetry reading, Alonso Llerena returns as a guest reader. Stay tuned this weekend for the podcast version of our longer chat, or catch it on the YouTube channel! Here, he reads Natasha Trethewey's "Repentance." We recorded in two different places and times, so the volume might jump around a bit, but it is worth it to hear his voice here again on the vlog's weekday readings! He contextualizes the poem expertly for you. More on Alonso Llerena -- Alonso is a poet and teacher in Washington D.C. of Peruvian descent. His work confronts being an immigrant here in the USA, but specifically as a Peruvian who left his country at a young age. His most recent work also addresses the Internal Armed Conflict Peru underwent from 1980-2000. Transcript of the poem and Trethewey reading it: (https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/11/20/repentance). ● 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).

YouTube Edition of this episode: (https://youtu.be/b0xlsP_cW8M). This is the podcast version of my longer chat with poet and teacher Alonso Llerena, who you might recognize as a guest on the Flash Briefings! For the full episode, links and references, visuals of the reading materials, and more, check out the YouTube version. I promise the added visuals and sound effects are a worthwhile addition. For my podcast friends, though, listen in, listen well, learn deeply. More on Alonso Llerena -- Alonso is a poet and teacher in Washington D.C. of Peruvian descent. His work confronts being an immigrant here in the USA, but specifically as a Peruvian who left his country at a young age. His most recent work also addresses the Internal Armed Conflict Peru underwent from 1980-2000. ● 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).