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

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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. 

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About Julie: 

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. 

More on Julie: 

Website: (http://www.juliecarrpoet.com) // 

Real Life Installation: (https://www.reallifeaninstallation.com) // 

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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. 

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About Laura:

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.

More on Laura:

Website: (http://www.laurada.com) // 

Twitter: (https://twitter.com/laura_l_da) //

Facebook: (https://www.facebook.com/lauralda) //

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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 //

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 version here: (https://youtu.be/f9QBmPL_l-Y)

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. 

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About Sindu:

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. 

More on Sindu: 

Website: (http://sjsindu.com) // 

Twitter: (https://twitter.com/SJSindu) // 

IG: (https://www.instagram.com/sjsindu) // 

FB: (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. 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 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 // 

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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. 

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About Patrick:

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.

More on Patrick:

Instagram: (https://www.instagram.com/patrick.milian) //

Facebook: (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. 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 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 // 

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/2l4f50GM0EI

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. 

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About Benjamin: 

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. 

More on Benjamin:

Website: (http://benmf.com) // 

Twitter: (https://twitter.com/artsbmf) (@artsBMF) // 

● 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 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 // 

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.

Catch the YouTube version of this episode: (https://youtu.be/ymy4I_qoRv8).

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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. 

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About Larissa:

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. 

(www.larissalai.com) //

(www.tiahouse.ca) // 

● 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 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 // 

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.

Catch the YouTube version of this episode: (https://youtu.be/0V2za1q6D_E). 

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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." 

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About Chen:

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. 

(chenchenwrites.com) // 

(twitter.com/chenchenwrites) // 

(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. 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 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 // 

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 Flash Briefing Poetry Reading features one of my favorite students, Vicco Naylor. They read their own poem, "Handplay," which we will discuss even more in tomorrow's longer episode. This and the following three short readings mark the last of the academic year and this Season Two of The Poetry Vlog, with Vicco Naylor's longer chat this weekend being the last full episode of the season. 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 or voice messages here on Anchor, and I hope you enjoy this last week of the second season of The Poetry Vlog!

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Today's reader: Vicco Naylor

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Link to Vicco's site and work:

https://www.vicco-g-naylor.com/

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About Vicco Naylor:  

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.

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Vicco on Twitter and Instagram: 

https://www.instagram.com/vicco_exists

https://www.twitter.com/vicco_exists

● 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! ●

This Flash Briefing Poetry Reading features one of my favorite students, Vicco Naylor. They read their very own work, "Once I Tried to Kill a Man," which we will chat about later this week in our longer episode. This and the following three short readings mark the last of the academic year and this Season Two of The Poetry Vlog, with Vicco Naylor's longer chat this weekend being the last full episode of the season. 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 or voice messages here on Anchor, and I hope you enjoy this last week of the second season of The Poetry Vlog!

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Today's reader: Vicco Naylor

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Link to Vicco's site and work:

https://www.vicco-g-naylor.com/

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About Vicco Naylor:  

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.

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Vicco on Twitter and Instagram: 

https://www.instagram.com/vicco_exists

https://www.twitter.com/vicco_exists

● 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! ●