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

Today's flash briefing poetry reading Youth Poet Laureate Jackson Neal. He reads Diana Khoi Nguyen's poem, "Gyotaku." Join us later this week for our longer chat on trans poetics and haunting as a method for hopeful and queer livability!

More on Jackson Neal -- Jackson Neal is a Queer, boundless, scorpio poet from Houston, Texas. They are a two-time Space City Grand Slam Champion, a National YoungArts Foundation Winner in Spoken Word, the Youth Poet Laureate of the Southwestern Region of the United States. For more info and to reach out, visit (jacksonnealpoetry.tk) // Say hi to Jackson on Social: @jaxnealpoetry for both IG and Twitter. 

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

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Lynn Otto reads "Yolked" from her new book, "Real Daughter" (links below). Listen to her read all week, and then stay tuned this weekend for our longer chat! Leave us a rating in iTunes and let me know what you think at thepoetryvlog.com (also available on Apple, Spotify, Stitcher, and 9 other podcast distributors).

More on Lynn Otto -- Lynn Otto is a freelance academic copy editor and writing mentor. Her collection Real Daughter won Unicorn Press's 2017 First Book Award and will be released January 28. Journal publications include poems in Iron Horse Literary Review, Raleigh Review, Sequestrum, and others.  Lynn holds an MFA from Portland State University, was a 2015/16 resident associate at the National Humanities Center in North Carolina, and has given workshops in the US, Canada, and France. She now lives in Oregon’s Willamette Valley (with her husband, one of her kids, and a very good dog). For more: (lynnottoinfo.wordpress.com) // Support Lynn's book, "Real Daughter," from Unicorn Press: (http://www.unicorn-press.org/books/Otto-Real-Daughter.html). ● 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).

Lynn Otto reads "The Douglas Fir Leans Toward the House and I Pretend it Doesn't" from her new book, "Real Daughter" (links below). Listen to her read all week, and then stay tuned this weekend for our longer chat! Leave us a rating in iTunes and let me know what you think at thepoetryvlog.com (also available on Apple, Spotify, Stitcher, and 9 other podcast distributors).

More on Lynn Otto -- Lynn Otto is a freelance academic copy editor and writing mentor. Her collection Real Daughter won Unicorn Press's 2017 First Book Award and will be released January 28. Journal publications include poems in Iron Horse Literary Review, Raleigh Review, Sequestrum, and others.  Lynn holds an MFA from Portland State University, was a 2015/16 resident associate at the National Humanities Center in North Carolina, and has given workshops in the US, Canada, and France. She now lives in Oregon’s Willamette Valley (with her husband, one of her kids, and a very good dog). For more: (lynnottoinfo.wordpress.com) // Support Lynn's book, "Real Daughter," from Unicorn Press: (http://www.unicorn-press.org/books/Otto-Real-Daughter.html). ● 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).

Lynn Otto reads "One Story" and "Letter from a Reader" from her new book, "Real Daughter" (links below). Listen to her read all week, and then stay tuned this weekend for our longer chat! Leave us a rating in iTunes and let me know what you think at thepoetryvlog.com (also available on Apple, Spotify, Stitcher, and 9 other podcast distributors).

More on Lynn Otto -- Lynn Otto is a freelance academic copy editor and writing mentor. Her collection Real Daughter won Unicorn Press's 2017 First Book Award and will be released January 28. Journal publications include poems in Iron Horse Literary Review, Raleigh Review, Sequestrum, and others.  Lynn holds an MFA from Portland State University, was a 2015/16 resident associate at the National Humanities Center in North Carolina, and has given workshops in the US, Canada, and France. She now lives in Oregon’s Willamette Valley (with her husband, one of her kids, and a very good dog). For more: (lynnottoinfo.wordpress.com) // Support Lynn's book, "Real Daughter," from Unicorn Press: (http://www.unicorn-press.org/books/Otto-Real-Daughter.html). ● 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).

Lynn Otto reads "Marcescence" from her new book, "Real Daughter" (links below). Listen to her read all week, and then stay tuned this weekend for our longer chat! Leave us a rating in iTunes and let me know what you think at thepoetryvlog.com (also available on Apple, Spotify, Stitcher, and 9 other podcast distributors).

More on Lynn Otto -- Lynn Otto is a freelance academic copy editor and writing mentor. Her collection Real Daughter won Unicorn Press's 2017 First Book Award and will be released January 28. Journal publications include poems in Iron Horse Literary Review, Raleigh Review, Sequestrum, and others.  Lynn holds an MFA from Portland State University, was a 2015/16 resident associate at the National Humanities Center in North Carolina, and has given workshops in the US, Canada, and France. She now lives in Oregon’s Willamette Valley (with her husband, one of her kids, and a very good dog). For more: (lynnottoinfo.wordpress.com) // Support Lynn's book, "Real Daughter," from Unicorn Press: (http://www.unicorn-press.org/books/Otto-Real-Daughter.html). ● 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).

Leave us a rating in iTunes and let me know what you think at thepoetryvlog.com (also available on Apple, Spotify, Stitcher, and 9 other podcast distributors). More on Farnoosh Fathi: (https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/farnoosh-fathi) // "Great Guns" by Farnooth Fathi, published by Canarium Books: (https://www.spdbooks.org/Products/Default.aspx?bookid=9780984947119) // Sample of Farnooth Fathi's Poems: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/91683/barber-of-the-pea-5848812f3ca13) // Canarium Books: (http://www.canarium.org/). ● 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).

Patrick Milian on DA Powell: (bit.ly/dapowellspoetry). Leave us a rating in iTunes and let me know what you think at thepoetryvlog.com (also available on Apple, Spotify, Stitcher, and 9 other podcast distributors). More on Farnoosh Fathi: (https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/farnoosh-fathi) // "Great Guns" by Farnooth Fathi, published by Canarium Books: (https://www.spdbooks.org/Products/Default.aspx?bookid=9780984947119) // Sample of Farnooth Fathi's Poems: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/91683/barber-of-the-pea-5848812f3ca13) // Canarium Books: (http://www.canarium.org/). ● 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).

Leave us a rating in iTunes and let me know what you think at thepoetryvlog.com (also available on Apple, Spotify, Stitcher, and 9 other podcast distributors). More on Farnoosh Fathi: (https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/farnoosh-fathi) // "Great Guns" by Farnooth Fathi, published by Canarium Books: (https://www.spdbooks.org/Products/Default.aspx?bookid=9780984947119) // Sample of Farnooth Fathi's Poems: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/91683/barber-of-the-pea-5848812f3ca13) // Canarium Books: (http://www.canarium.org/). ● 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).

Leave us a rating in iTunes and let me know what you think at thepoetryvlog.com (also available on Apple, Spotify, Stitcher, and 9 other podcast distributors). More on Farnoosh Fathi: (https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/farnoosh-fathi) // "Great Guns" by Farnooth Fathi, published by Canarium Books: (https://www.spdbooks.org/Products/Default.aspx?bookid=9780984947119) // Sample of Farnooth Fathi's Poems: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/91683/barber-of-the-pea-5848812f3ca13) // Canarium Books: (http://www.canarium.org/). ● 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).

Leave us a rating in iTunes and let me know what you think at thepoetryvlog.com (also available on Apple, Spotify, Stitcher, and 9 other podcast distributors). More on Farnoosh Fathi: (https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/farnoosh-fathi) // "Great Guns" by Farnooth Fathi, published by Canarium Books: (https://www.spdbooks.org/Products/Default.aspx?bookid=9780984947119) // Sample of Farnooth Fathi's Poems: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/91683/barber-of-the-pea-5848812f3ca13) // Canarium Books: (http://www.canarium.org/). ● 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).