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

In this episode of The Poetry Vlog (TPV), author and artist Jessica Tanck reads from her book Winter Here (UGA Press, 2024) to lead a discussion on the beauty of contrast, the battle to resist conformity, and the importance of queer community.Jessica Tanck is the author of Winter Here (UGA Press, 2024), winner of the 2022 Georgia Poetry Prize. She holds degrees from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where she completed a B.A. in English Literature - Creative Writing and Comparative Literature and an M.F.A. in Creative Writing - Poetry. Her work appears or is forthcoming in The Adroit Journal, Alaska Quarterly Review, Beloit Poetry Journal, Blackbird, Colorado Review, DIAGRAM, Gulf Coast, Kenyon Review, The Los Angeles Review, Meridian, New England Review, New Ohio Review, Ninth Letter, Waxwing, and others. Jess was born in Chicago, IL, but grew up in Sheboygan, WI, on the shores of Lake Michigan. The recipient of a Vice Presidential Fellowship and a Clarence Snow Memorial Fellowship, Jess lives and writes in Salt Lake City, where she is a Ph.D. candidate in English Literature and Creative Writing at the University of Utah. She served as the 2022-2023 Editor of Quarterly West, where she is currently guest-editing a special issue on “Extreme Environments”— a central concern of hers, as well as the focus of her doctoral dissertation and the reading for her qualifying exams.Learn more about Jess at:✔︎ https://www.jessicatanck.com/

In this episode of The Poetry Vlog (TPV), author, musician, and activist Willy Palomo reads from his book Wake the Others (Editorial Kalina/Glass Spider Publishing, 2023) to lead a discussion on how their relationship with leftism evolved over time, as well as how queer erotica can be used to tell powerful, extremely important stories.Willy Palomo (he/they/she) is the author of Wake the Others (Editorial Kalina/Glass Spider Publishing, 2023), a winner of a Foreword Prize in Poetry and an International Latino Book Award honorable mention in Bilingual Poetry. In November 2024, his Spanish-to-English translation of Tres Tercas Trincheras by Marielos Oliva was published in Europe by FormArti. A veteran of the Salt Lake City poetry slam scene, his fiction, essays, poetry, translations, and songs can be found across print and web pages, including the Best New Poets 2018, Latino Rebels, The Wandering Song: Central American Writing in the United States, and more. He has performed at or keynoted in 160+ public engagements since 2011, including the SUU Pride Film Festival, el Festival Internacional de Poesia Amada Libertad, and many more. He has taught classes on literature, rap, and creative writing in universities, juvenile detention centers, high schools, and community centers. He is the son of two refugees from El Salvador.Learn more about Willy at:✔︎ https://www.palomopoemas.com/.About The Poetry Vlog (TPV):✔︎ https://thepoetryvlog.com/thepoetryvlog

In this episode of The Poetry Vlog (TPV), poet, scholar, and educator Matty Lane Glasgow reads from his book deciduous qween (Red Hen Press, 2019) to lead a discussion on current Utah legislation targeting the queer community, navigating politically different environments as a queer writer, and coping mechanisms via pop culture. This is a special edition episode featuring guest host Ray Kaplan. Watch teh YouTube Edition, which includes professional captioning at: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UClQ9v_r99FxQOzLrTVBic6A?sub_confirmation=1

In this episode of The Poetry Vlog (TPV), poet and screenwriter Tommy "Teebs" Pico reads from his book JUNK (Tin House, 2018) to lead a discussion on the work in poetry and screenwriting to "tether" disparate ideas and create meaning. This episode will be re-edited and adapted with a Critical Framing and sample lesson plans in The Poetry Vlog: Critical Edition. Forthcoming from University of Michigan Press, Fulcrum. Tommy “Teebs” Pico is a poet, artist, and tv writer. He is author of the books IRL, Nature Poem, Junk, Feed, and has written on the shows Reservation Dogs, Resident Alien and Crystal Lake. Originally from the Viejas Indian reservation of the Kumeyaay nation, he now lives in Los Angeles where he makes abstract portraits with various kinds of wax, acrylics, watercolors, food coloring and India ink. Learn more at https://tommy-pico.com/. View the Video Version (includes transcript): https://youtu.be/THSAGlrXzic/. Learn more about the series: https://www.thepoetryvlog.com/thepoetryvlog/

In this episode of The Poetry Vlog (TPV), Cameron Awkward-Rich reads the poem "Black Feeling" from his book Dispatch (Persea Books, 2019) to lead a discussion on the dialectical complexity within Black and trans social identities. The poem expands on an encounter he has while in transit on the bus with an elder retired cop to contemplate uneven, overlapping, and even paradoxical power dynamics around race, gender, class, sex, sexuality, and education. This episode will be re-edited and adapted with a Critical Framing and sample lesson plans in The Poetry Vlog: Critical Edition. Forthcoming from University of Michigan Press, Fulcrum. Cameron Awkward-Rich holds a Ph.D. from Stanford University, is Assistant Professor of Women, Gender, Sexuality Studies at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, and, in addition to Dispatch, is author of Sympathetic Little Monster (Ricochet Editions, 2016). Learn more at https://www.cawkwardrich.com/. Learn more about the series at: https://www.thepoetryvlog.com/thepoetryvlog/

Award-winning poet Tyrone Williams discusses his poetry in On Spec, the paradox of representation and race in poetry and social media, and how academia and geographic locations impact these conversations. Poet Tyrone Williams was born in Detroit, Michigan and earned his BA, MA, and PhD at Wayne State University. He is the author of a number of chapbooks, including Convalescence (1987); Futures, Elections (2004); Musique Noir (2006); and Pink Tie (2011), among others. His full-length collections of poetry include c.c. (2002), On Spec (2008), The Hero Project (2009), Adventures of Pi (2011), and Howell (2011). Captions and transcript available in the YouTube Version of this episode: https://youtu.be/bKib-TSXGNE Learn more about the series at: https://www.thepoetryvlog.com/thepoetryvlog/

In this episode of TPV, Woogee Bae discusses environmental poetry, or ecopoetry, as a way build community. She reads from Eric Sneathen's "Snail Poems" and shares the zine-making process behind the journal she edits, Snail Trail Press. This episode will be re-edited and adapted with a Critical Framing and sample lesson plans in The Poetry Vlog: Critical Edition. Forthcoming from University of Michigan Press, Fulcrum. Woogee Bae writes poems and edits at Snail Trail Press. She received her MFA from the University of Washington Bothell's Creative Writing and Poetics Program. Writings can be found in P-QUEUE, Poetry Northwest, Tagvverk, and elsewhere. Learn more at https://www.woogeebae.com. Captions and transcript available in the YouTube Edition: https://youtu.be/JlRIkuJzMhw

September 17, 6pm Central Time (4pm Pacific Time) The Poetry Vlog hosted a reading and discussion of Fracture Anthology: a poetry chapbook and audiobook by Joshua Burton that features a visual art collaboration with Zumbambico and handmade book arts production from the publisher, Sara Lefsyk of Ethel. Started in 2018, Ethel is a twice-yearly limited-edition, hand-made journal of writing and art and a micro-press specializing in handmade and hand-bound chapbooks and mini-books. Joshua is joined by visual artist Zumbambico and publisher of Ethel, Sara Lefsyk. Hosted by C. R. Grimmer on The Poetry Vlog (TPV).

Dr. Stevi Costa (AKA Sailor St. Claire) discusses Queer and Feminist burlesque as poetry. She performs from "Striptease: The Untold Story of the Girlie Show" by Rachel Stein and shares her experiences performing with Noveltease Theatre and offers strategies for scholars, students, and arts communities to think about the intersections of burlesque performance, multimodality, and intersectional feminism.  This episode was originally scheduled for Season 3's final installment, but was pushed to Season 4 due to COVID restraints and a turn in TPV focus to the #supportblacktranspoets). Learn more at https://www.thepoetryvlog.com/thepoetryvlog. For a transcript of this episode, visit the YouTube edition at https://www.youtube.com/c/thepoetryvlog.

Today's flash briefing poetry reading Youth Poet Laureate Jackson Neal. He reads his luscious poem, "In my Body." 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). ● 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 Youth Poet Laureate Jackson Neal. He reads his own incredible poem, "Death Drop From Grace." 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). ● 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 Youth Poet Laureate Jackson Neal. He reads Diana Khoi Nguyen's poem, "Family Ties." 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). ● 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 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).  ● 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 "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).