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

 This episode is part of a month-long literary journal, podcast, and YouTube teaching collaboration with Shirley Magazine, a fiction and hybrid forms magazine in Portland, OR. Editors Colleen and Lauren present selections from previous publications of the journal, leading up to a longer episode on the launch of the latest issue.

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Today's reader: Kayla Eason reading "To Memorize."

For more, read the piece here: http://www.shirleymag.com/#new-page-3. For more Kayla, visit https://www.kaylaeason.com/ .

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More about Shirley Magazine: http://www.shirleymag.com/

● 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 episode is part of a month-long literary journal, podcast, and YouTube teaching collaboration with Shirley Magazine, a fiction and hybrid forms magazine in Portland, OR. Editors Colleen and Lauren present selections from previous publications of the journal, leading up to a longer episode on the launch of the latest issue.

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Today's reader: Alissa Hattman reading "THE FOX FACE."

“The Fox Face,” is a retelling of “The Fox Skin” by Guðmundur Gíslason Hagalín (1923). Find it in Shirley Magazine, Issue 12.

Find Alissa at www.alissahattman.com or on twitter at @alissahattman and Instagram at @alissahattman.

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More about Shirley Magazine: http://www.shirleymag.com/

● 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 episode is part of a month-long literary journal, podcast, and YouTube teaching collaboration with Shirley Magazine, a fiction and hybrid forms magazine in Portland, OR. Editors Colleen and Lauren present selections from previous publications of the journal, leading up to a longer episode on the launch of the latest issue.

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Today's reader: Derek Andersen reading "Male Bonding."

For more, follow this link to Shirley Magazine and stay tuned for this piece in the upcoming issue, which will be released April 29th. 

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More on Derek Andersen:  

 Derek Andersen is an Illinois Wesleyan alum, working as a copywriter in Chicago. His poems and stories have appeared or are forthcoming in Riggwelter, Ghost Parachute, X-R-A-Y, Shirley Magazine, and on WinningWriters.com. You can follow him on Twitter @DerekJAnd.   

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More about Shirley Magazine: http://www.shirleymag.com/

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This episode is part of a month-long literary journal, podcast, and YouTube teaching collaboration with Shirley Magazine, a fiction and hybrid forms magazine in Portland, OR. Editors Colleen and Lauren present selections from previous publications of the journal, leading up to a longer episode on the launch of the latest issue.

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Today's reader: Lucie Bonvalet reading "The Gloves."

For more, follow this link to the Shirley Magazine issue. For more of Lucie Bonvalet's work, follow these links to Josepha and On Tinnitus. For Lucie's visual art, check out this link to Lucie's instagram.

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More about Shirley Magazine: http://www.shirleymag.com/

● 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).

I have had a good year so far with poetry acceptances! I'll be doing some live poetry readings this spring, but here you get a peek into an online published poem of mine, "Hewn." FIVE:2:ONE published it as part of their rad online daily publications, #sideshow, so it is a fun, quick, and easy one share with you all!  It is from my manuscript, The Lyme Letters. It's a finished manuscript and under review for publication at a few places (noted in the video)! 

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The next three coming up this year are from my in-progress-manuscript, "Ezekiel," and will be in some of my favorite spots, like "POETRY Magazine," "FENCE," and "[PANK]". Comment with your thoughts, because it's fun to take a five minute break from interviewing and researching to just read you a poem :).  

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Link to published poem:   

✔︎ http://five2onemagazine.com/five-poem...  

● 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 version: bit.ly/abolishprisons

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In this episode of The Poetry Vlog with C. R. Grimmer, Winona State University Professor MaryJo Klinker’s Class, WGSS 374 joins us for a mass incarceration education and prison abolition poetry reading. I used equipment provided by The Mellon Foundation to Facebook Livestream with the class, reading Prison Abolition and Anti-Racist activist Marilyn Buck’s poem, “Wild Poppies,” and Black Trans activist, state rep, and abolitionist Andrea Jenkins’s poem, “Eighteen.” While I read, The Winona State students type in incarceration statistics, especially related to trans and queer womxn who identify as LGBTQIA+. At the end, we link to external partnerships so you can not just read and learn about the prison industrial complex, but also ACT. #blacklivesmatter #abolishprisons #lgbtqia #transpoets #queerpoets 

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Marilyn Buck’s “Wild Poppies” Poem and Recording:

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Andrea Jenkin’s “Eighteen” Poem: 

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About: In this episode of The Poetry Vlog with Chelsea Grimmer, 2019 Seattle Youth Poet Laureate Azura Tyabji reads "India Poems." We discuss Arundhati Roy, diaspora, and how to navigate instagram, twitter, and related social media when sharing trauma narratives -- especially ones that are not our own. How does this connect to poetry? In part because Azura is a skilled performance poet, too, and shares her experiences and insight around related ethical dilemmas in slam, open mic, and print poetry practices -- especially when we are "branding" ourselves based on those trauma narratives that we share in social activisms. 

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On Azura Tyabji: Azura Mizan Tyabji writes from the perspective of a young woman of Black and Indian descent living in Seattle, Washington. She currently serves as the Youth Poet Laureate of her city, and as the National Youth Poet Laureate Ambassador for the West region of the United States. What motivates every aspect of her artistic practice is a love for community, justice, and healing. Poetry inspires movements for radical change, and Azura strives to lend her voice to that legacy by commanding attention to injustice and invoking a future without it. Her debut poetry collection will be released by Poetry Northwest in May 2019.   For more info, visit her site: (https://www.azuratyabji.com/) - Say Hi Azura at: https://www.instagram.com/azura.tyabji/ (@azuratyabji) 

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On The National Youth Poet Laureate Program: (youthlaureate.org) (urbanwordnyc.org)

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Texts we will reference this week: In Seattle, Luther Hughes for Winter Tangerine: http://www.wintertangerine.com/lom-luther-hughes-1 

Diaspora: A Narcolepsy Hymn, Kyle Dargan for Winter Tangerine: http://www.wintertangerine.com/dargan-diaspora

● 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 Youth Poet Laureate of the West Coast (and located here in Seattle), Azura Tyabji. Today, she reads usIndia Poems." Join us later this week for our longer chat about this poem, being on social media, trauma commodification, diaspora, and coalition building! For recent collaboration episodes with the Youth Poet Laureate Program, tune in to the last two weeks here on the podcast or visit the YouTube channel (bit.ly/thepoetryvlog).

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On Azura Tyabji: Azura Mizan Tyabji writes from the perspective of a young woman of Black and Indian descent living in Seattle, Washington. She currently serves as the Youth Poet Laureate of her city, and as the National Youth Poet Laureate Ambassador for the West region of the United States. What motivates every aspect of her artistic practice is a love for community, justice, and healing. Poetry inspires movements for radical change, and Azura strives to lend her voice to that legacy by commanding attention to injustice and invoking a future without it. Her debut poetry collection will be released by Poetry Northwest in May 2019.  

For more info, visit her site: https://www.azuratyabji.com/

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Say Hi Azura at:

https://www.instagram.com/azura.tyabji/

(@azuratyabji)

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On The National Youth Poet Laureate Program: (youthlaureate.org) // (urbanwordnyc.org)

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Texts we will reference this week:

In Seattle, Luther Hughes for Winter Tangerine: http://www.wintertangerine.com/lom-luther-hughes-1 

Diaspora: A Narcolepsy Hymn, Kyle Dargan for Winter Tangerine: http://www.wintertangerine.com/dargan-diaspora

● 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 Youth Poet Laureate of the West Coast (and located here in Seattle), Azura Tyabji. Today, she reads us Kyle Dargan's poem, "Diaspora: A Narcolepsy Hymn." Join us later this week for our longer chat on social media, trauma commodification, diaspora, and coalition building! For recent collaboration episodes with the Youth Poet Laureate Program, tune in to the last two weeks here on the podcast or visit the YouTube channel (bit.ly/thepoetryvlog).

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Transcript of Kyle Dargan's "Diaspora: A Narcolepsy Hymn," originally published in Winter Tangerine:

http://www.wintertangerine.com/dargan-diaspora

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On Azura Tyabji: Azura Mizan Tyabji writes from the perspective of a young woman of Black and Indian descent living in Seattle, Washington. She currently serves as the Youth Poet Laureate of her city, and as the National Youth Poet Laureate Ambassador for the West region of the United States. What motivates every aspect of her artistic practice is a love for community, justice, and healing. Poetry inspires movements for radical change, and Azura strives to lend her voice to that legacy by commanding attention to injustice and invoking a future without it. Her debut poetry collection will be released by Poetry Northwest in May 2019.  

For more info, visit her site: https://www.azuratyabji.com/

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Say Hi Azura at:

https://www.instagram.com/azura.tyabji/

(@azuratyabji)

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On The National Youth Poet Laureate Program: (youthlaureate.org) // (urbanwordnyc.org)

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Texts we will reference this week:

In Seattle, Luther Hughes for Winter Tangerine: http://www.wintertangerine.com/lom-luther-hughes-1 

Diaspora: A Narcolepsy Hymn, Kyle Dargan for Winter Tangerine: http://www.wintertangerine.com/dargan-diaspora

● 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 Youth Poet Laureate of the West Coast (and located here in Seattle), Azura Tyabji. She reads us her original piece, "Palanquin". Join us later this week for our longer chat on social media, trauma commodification, diaspora, and coalition building! For recent collaboration episodes with the Youth Poet Laureate Program, tune in to the last two weeks here on the podcast or visit the YouTube channel (bit.ly/thepoetryvlog).

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On Azura Tyabji: Azura Mizan Tyabji writes from the perspective of a young woman of Black and Indian descent living in Seattle, Washington. She currently serves as the Youth Poet Laureate of her city, and as the National Youth Poet Laureate Ambassador for the West region of the United States. What motivates every aspect of her artistic practice is a love for community, justice, and healing. Poetry inspires movements for radical change, and Azura strives to lend her voice to that legacy by commanding attention to injustice and invoking a future without it. Her debut poetry collection will be released by Poetry Northwest in May 2019.  

For more info, visit her site: https://www.azuratyabji.com/

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Say Hi Azura at:

https://www.instagram.com/azura.tyabji/

(@azuratyabji)

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On The National Youth Poet Laureate Program:

(youthlaureate.org) //(urbanwordnyc.org)

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Texts we will reference this week:

In Seattle, Luther Hughes for Winter Tangerine: http://www.wintertangerine.com/lom-luther-hughes-1 

Diaspora: A Narcolepsy Hymn, Kyle Dargan for Winter Tangerine: http://www.wintertangerine.com/dargan-diaspora

● 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).