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

Today's flash briefing is the first poem, "Sheherazade," from Richard Siken's book, "Crush." This book was the winner of the Yale Younger Poets Series in 2005. It is gorgeous. Remember to tweet at me or contact me via my site, thepoetryvlog.com, if you have thoughts, feedback, or requests! ● 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 is Andrea Crawford, a visual artist based on Seattle who is soon moving to Portland for her MFA. You'll notice the additional intro -- I said this vlog would be posted today, but that was my first scheduling mistake. So sorry! Look for it Wednesday or Thursday. Enjoy and tune in again for tomorrow's Flash Briefing reading! ● 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 is from Safiya Karmy-Jones, who is our guest reader! She is reading from "The Reason I Jump: The Inner Voice of a Thirteen-Year-Old Boy with Autism" by Naoki Higashida. Tune into tomorrow to The Poetry Vlog YouTube episode, where we will have guest interlocutors doctoral student Safiya Karmy-Jones and visual artist Andrea Crawford. Per usual, I will transcribe the video to here, the Podcast. ● 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).

*podcast note: transcribed from video. Check out the YouTube channel if you want to see what we describe! Today, we have our first special guest, Abi Pollokoff of AbiPollokoff.com. She reads two of her poems with me, and I have included excerpts from one. You can find the other here: (https://www.guernicamag.com/preservation-tactics/). Abi is an accomplished poet, writer, and badass feminist with numerous publications and an open-hearted presence via local Seattle poetry outlets such as Open Books: abipollokoff.com! Abi will be a regular on The Poetry Vlog! Every three weeks, she will check in, read with us, and share how her manuscript is coming along. Subscribe above to keep up with the story :). We mention poetry by Inger Christensen. It is “Alphabet.” Google it. Find it. Read it. Imbibe it. As always, follow me and hit me up with the links below if you have ideas, questions, or insights. ● 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).

The new organization is: a "Flash Briefing" as a two minute or less reading every day of a poem or pop culture text. This will be followed a 20 minute or less episodes 1x week or more expanding on one of those poets/poems/pop culture texts. Today's Flash Briefing is Abi Pollokoff reading an excerpt from Inger Christensen's "Alphabet"! This one goes for 3.5 minutes, BUT, you've never complained that there is too much poetry in your life, right? Plus, what a privilege to have a provocative and moving reader such as Abi. For more on Abi's own work as an inimitable poet, see abipollokoff.com. Tomorrow, there will be a full Vlog AND podcast episode where she is our guest interlocutor and reader. We will discuss breath, reading poems, music, manuscripts, and Inger Christensen's. Tune in for more then! It will be published by the eve of 7/15. If you're a poet or musician wanting to be featured or have a requested person/topic: contact via the links below! ● 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 this episode of Chelsea Grimmer and The Poetry Vlog, I offer key updates to the future of the channel and podcast, then explain how to identify the sonnet form and read sonnet 1.1. from Karla Kelsey’s Iteration Next. This is a “dry” lesson plan, but, if it is one of the most useful for aspiring lyricists who want to learn how to make their music and lyrics, from hip hop to soul to country to pop, rhythmically tighter and without cheesy rhyme. As always, follow me and hit me up if you have ideas, questions, or insights.  ● 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).

Here, I discuss feminism, trans-inclusive feminism, transwomen inclusion, queerness, and power in Janelle Monáe and Tessa Thompson in the music video “Pynk.” For the first five minutes, I offer a 2.5 minute update on the forthcoming Podcast and future guest readers, then offer a quick contextualizing discussion on the intersections of poetry, pop culture, spoken word, and print poetry to emphasize how these videos and podcasts might be used both in and outside classrooms and social justice conversations. Then, I spend ten minutes basically saying in ten different ways why “Pynk” can be a moment for a feminism that is not just trans-inclusive, but a feminism that in fact centers women of color and especially trans-women of color. I am currently taking questions, guest readers/conversationalists, and content suggestions. Hit me up on twitter.com/thepoetryvlog or via thepoetryvlog.com. This was transcribed from YouTube. Podcast-specific audio episodes coming soon! ● 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 the fourth episode of The Poetry Vlog: Podcast Edition, you will find a less than two minute reading from Kendrick Lamar's incredible song, Sing About Me, I'm Dying of Thirst. Then, if you're interested, you can stay tuned for the 20 minute or less discussion on his work. This is in response to a student request from Jasper Vu Pham, so the discussion focuses on the section Jasper requested. This episode is transcribed from my YouTube channel, The Poetry Vlog. Future episodes will be recorded in just audio and will be uniquely created for the podcast platforms. Thank you for sticking with me as I learn these technologies. If you want to collaborate, have questions you hope I can address, or want to suggest a poetry, artist, or pop culture person for future episodes, get at me via twitter.com/thepoetryvlog or via thepoetryvlog.com/contact. I love interactive discussions and co-conspirators! ● 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 the third episode of The Poetry Vlog: Podcast Edition, you will find a less than two minute reading from R. Zamora Linmark's book, "Rolling the R's". Then, if you're interested, you can stay tuned for the 20 minute or less discussion on the book as a whole. This is a unique episode in that the longer discussion includes the basics of analysis and how to move beyond mere assumptions. This episode is transcribed from my YouTube channel, The Poetry Vlog. Future episodes will be recorded in just audio and will be uniquely created for the podcast platforms. Thank you for sticking with me as I learn these technologies. If you want to collaborate, have questions you hope I can address, or want to suggest a poetry, artist, or pop culture person for future episodes, get at me via Twitter.com/thepoetryvlog or via thepoetryvlog.com/contact. I love interactive discussions and co-conspirators! ● 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 the second episode of The Poetry Vlog: Podcast Edition, you will find a less than two minute reading from Franny Choi. Then, if you're interested, you can stay tuned for the 20 minute or less discussion on her work. I also discuss how my students responded to and interacted with a unique feature of Franny Choi's book -- the visual art. This episode is transcribed from my YouTube channel, The Poetry Vlog. Future episodes will be recorded in just audio and will be uniquely created for the podcast platforms. Thank you for sticking with me as I learn these technologies. If you want to collaborate, have questions you hope I can address, or want to suggest a poetry, artist, or pop culture person for future episodes, get at me via twitter.com/thepoetryvlog or via thepoetryvlog.com/contact. I love interactive discussions and co-conspirators! ●  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).