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). Episode Chapters: Intro & About This Episode 0:00 - 2:31 Performative Reading from 'Striptease' 2:31 - 6:42 How to Develop Performative Reading Skills 6:42 - 10:27 The Relationship Between Performative Reading and Literary Burlesque 10:27 - 11:53 Why Burlesque? (History of Burlesque) 11:53 - 13:46 Burlesque, Camp, Queer Community, Feminism 13:46 - 15:09 Articulating Burlesque as both Theatre and Potential Site for Embodied Feminism 15:09 - 19:40 Closing Comments/About Noveltease Theatre/About The Poetry Vlog 19:40 - 21:27 Question for the Audience 21:27 - 22:19 Outro 22:19 Learn more about Sailor St. Claire and Noveltease: ✔︎ https://www.stevicosta.com ✔︎ https://novelteasetheatre.org/ Support hiring students while keeping these teaching videos free by subscribing (goal of 1000!) and/or donating: ✔︎ https://www.youtube.com/c/thepoetryvlog?sub_confirmation=1 ✔︎ https://thepoetryvlog.com/thepoetryvlog Learn more about C. R. Grimmer and their most recent book, The Lyme Letters: ✔︎ https://www.crgrimmer.com/ Listen to the Podcast Edition: ✔︎ https://anchor.fm/thepoetryvlog Closed Captioning Certification: ✔︎ Provided by the UW DO-IT Team This Episode was Produced by: ✔︎ Emily Joy-Oomen & C. R. Grimmer Season 3 was possible with support from The Simpson Center for the Humanities Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fellowship and Jack Straw Cultural Center. Support Season 4 as a free teaching and education resource: ✔︎ https://www.thepoetryvlog.com/thepoetryvlog About The Poetry Vlog (TPV): 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. Full episodes include guests that range from unpublished and poetry-adjacent community stake-holders to award-winning poets and scholars, to C. R.'s own students. The Poetry Vlog across its distribution channels believes in the worlds we can build through dialogue-based knowledge production, supporting open access scholarship, community-based research, and accessible pedagogy. Connect @: ✔︎ https://instagram.com/cr_grimmer ✔︎ https://twitter.com/crgrimmertpv ✔︎ https://facebook.com/thepoetryvlog ✔︎ https://cgrimmer.com/

Professor A.D. Carson (AKA "Aydee the Great") discusses "academic rap," Black Studies, insights on his album and mixtap/e/ssay 'i used to love to dream'. This episode offers strategies for scholars, students, and arts communities to think about the intersections of genre, sound, form, multimodality, and race. The Poetry Vlog Season 4 debuts with a special edition where you can listen (for free!!!) and read the full mixtap/e/ssay using the below link. This is because of the incredible work being done for Open Access Scholarship by University of Michigan Press' Fulcrum: ✔︎ https://www.fulcrum.org/concern/monographs/m900nw52n Learn more about Dr. A. D.: ✔︎ https://aydeethegreat.com/ Listen to the Podcast Edition: Forthcoming February 2021 Episode Chapters: Intro 0:00-1:41 "Permanent Outsider Status" 1:42-4:19 "The Geospecificity of Sound" 4:20-8:00 "The So-Called N Word" 8:01-10:50 "Hybrid Practices" 10:51-14:07 ""Rapper" And Labels" 14:08-19:04 "Owning The Rapper Label" 19:05-21:38 "Racial Authenticity" 21:39-23:45 "racialized Sonic Signification" 23:46-27:48 Outro 2:39 Closed Captioning Certification: ✔︎ Provided by the UW DO-IT Team This Episode was Produced by: ✔︎ Esat Tunagur Season 3 was possible with support from The Simpson Center for the Humanities Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fellowship and Jack Straw Cultural Center. Support Season 4 as a free teaching and education resource: ✔︎ https://www.thepoetryvlog.com/thepoetryvlog Subscribe for future how-to and interview videos: ✔︎ https://www.youtube.com/c/thepoetryvlog?sub_confirmation=1 Learn more about C. R. Grimmer and their most recent book, The Lyme Letters: ✔︎ https://www.crgrimmer.com/ About The Poetry Vlog (TPV): 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. Full episodes include guests that range from unpublished and poetry-adjacent community stake-holders to award-winning poets and scholars, to C. R.'s own students. The Poetry Vlog across its distribution channels believes in the worlds we can build through dialogue-based knowledge production, supporting open access scholarship, community-based research, and accessible pedagogy. Say hi to C. R. over @: ✔︎ https://instagram.com/cr_grimmer ✔︎ https://twitter.com/crgrimmertpv ✔︎ https://facebook.com/thepoetryvlog ✔︎ https://cgrimmer.com/

On this episode of The Poetry Vlog, poet and educator Jane Wong reads her original work and discusses how poetry can relate to our experiences of class, labor and community. Listen to the podcast edition here: https://anchor.fm/thepoetryvlog/episodes/S3--E14-Jane-Wong-on-Poetry--Class--and-Labor-ectv2u Jane Wong's poems can be found in places such as Best American Poetry 2015, American Poetry Review, POETRY, AGNI, Third Coast, New England Review, and others. Her essays have appeared in McSweeney's, Black Warrior Review, Ecotone, The Georgia Review, Shenandoah, and This is the Place: Women Writing About Home. A Kundiman fellow, she is the recipient of a Pushcart Prize and fellowships and residencies from the U.S. Fulbright Program, Artist Trust, 4Culture, the Fine Arts Work Center, Bread Loaf, Willapa Bay AiR, Hedgebrook, the Jentel Foundation, SAFTA, and Mineral School. This July, she will be Sarabande’s Writer-in-Residence at Blackacre. She is the author of Overpour from Action Books, and How to Not Be Afraid of Everything, which is forthcoming from Alice James Books. She is an Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at Western Washington University. In 2017, she received the James W. Ray Distinguished Artist award for Washington artists. ✔︎ https://janewongwriter.com ✔︎ https://www.instagram.com/paradeofcats . . . . . . . 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. Full episodes include guests that range from unpublished and poetry-adjacent community stake-holders, to award-winning poets and scholars, to C. R.'s own students. The Poetry Vlog across its distribution channels believes in the worlds we can build through dialogue-based knowledge production, supporting open access scholarship, community-based research, and accessible pedagogy. The Spring 2020 Student Team: Gene Wang - Video Editor Emily Oomen - Video Editor Parker Kennedy - Video Editor Mimi Hoang - Illustrator Cheryl Wu - Content Writer & Designer Kristin Ruopp - Digital Marketing Coordinator Subscribe to our channel to join our fast-growing arts & scholarship community: ✔︎ http://youtube.com/c/thepoetryvlog?sub_confirmation=1 The Poetry Vlog Podcast: ✔︎ https://www.anchor.fm/thepoetryvlog . . . . . . . Receive FREE snail mail stickers and magnets with newsletter sign-up at: ✔︎ https://www.thepoetryvlog.com Say hi: ✔︎ http://instagram.com/thepoetryvlog ✔︎ http://www.twitter.com/thepoetryvlog ✔︎ https://www.facebook.com/thepoetryvlog ✔︎ https://www.thepoetryvlog.com Support this project: ✔︎ https://anchor.fm/thepoetryvlog/support . . . . . . . Catch up on Seasons 1 & 2: ✔︎ https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLsIc9vBng_A0scPpg9Wa7uVmxkE_Si5Ri 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.

Poet and educator Adam Falkner reads his original work and discusses the value of telling our stories, as well as the value in exploring queer identity by writing into our internal contradictions. Dr. Adam Falkner is a poet, educator and arts & culture strategist. He is the author of Adoption (Winner of the 2017 Diode Editions Chapbook Award) and The Willies (Button Poetry, 2020), and his work has appeared in a range of print and media spaces including on programming for HBO, NBC, NPR, BET, in the New York Times, and elsewhere. A former high school English teacher in New York City’s public schools, Adam is the Founder and Executive Director of the pioneering diversity consulting initiative, the Dialogue Arts Project, in which capacity he develops and facilitates trainings for schools, companies and cultural institutions across the country. Adam has toured the United States as a guest artist, lecturer and trainer for thousands of students, educators and corporate employees, and was the featured performer at President Obama’s Grassroots Ball at the 2009 Presidential Inauguration. He holds a Ph.D. in English and Education from Columbia University. ✔︎ http://www.adamfalknerarts.com ✔︎ https://www.instagram.com/adam_falkner . . . . . . . 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. Full episodes include guests that range from unpublished and poetry-adjacent community stake-holders, to award-winning poets and scholars, to C. R.'s own students. The Poetry Vlog across its distribution channels believes in the worlds we can build through dialogue-based knowledge production, supporting open access scholarship, community-based research, and accessible pedagogy. The Winter 2020 Student Team: Parker Kennedy - Video Editor Evelyn Niu - Video Editor Kristin Ruopp - Digital Marketing Reagan Welsh - Social Media & Communications Cheryl Wu - Content Writer & Designer Subscribe to our channel to join our fast-growing arts & scholarship community: ✔︎ http://youtube.com/c/thepoetryvlog?sub_confirmation=1 The Poetry Vlog Podcast: ✔︎ https://www.anchor.fm/thepoetryvlog . . . . . . . Receive FREE snail mail stickers and magnets with newsletter sign-up at: ✔︎ https://www.thepoetryvlog.com Say hi: ✔︎ http://instagram.com/thepoetryvlog ✔︎ http://www.twitter.com/thepoetryvlog ✔︎ https://www.facebook.com/thepoetryvlog ✔︎ https://www.thepoetryvlog.com Support this project: ✔︎ https://anchor.fm/thepoetryvlog/support . . . . . . . Catch up on Seasons 1 & 2: ✔︎ https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLsIc9vBng_A0scPpg9Wa7uVmxkE_Si5Ri 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 week on TPV, Prageeta Sharma reads from her book Grief Sequence, discusses the elegy form, and about connecting with abstraction. Listen to the podcast edition here: https://anchor.fm/thepoetryvlog/episodes/S3--E11-Prageeta-Sharma-on-Grief-in-Poetry--the-Elegy--and-Abstraction-eal351 [From https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/prageeta-sharma] Poet Prageeta Sharma was born in Framingham, Massachusetts. Her parents emigrated from India in 1969, and Sharma was raised a Hindu. She has acknowledged the influence of her parents’ religion on her poetry: “I was taught to honor knowledge and books like a religion and so for me poetry keeps this relationship close, true, active,” she told the journal Willow Springs. Sharma attended Simon’s Rock College of Bard as an undergraduate and earned her MFA from Brown University and an MA in media studies from The New School. Her collections of poetry include Bliss to Fill (2000), The Opening Question (2004), which won the Fence Modern Poets Prize, Infamous Landscapes (2007), Undergloom (2013), and Grief Sequence (2019). Sharma has spoken of her work in terms of thought rather than narrative. In Willow Springs, she noted, “It’s important to explore a variety of cognitive experiences in the poem rather than just telling a story.” Sharma’s honors and awards include a Howard Foundation Award. She has taught at the New School, Goddard College, and the University of Montana-Missoula. She is the Henry G. Lee professor of English at Pomona College as well as the founder and president of the conference Thinking Its Presence: Race, Creative Writing, and Literary Studies. ✔︎ https://twitter.com/prapra ✔︎ https://www.instagram.com/prapramt . . . . . . . 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. Full episodes include guests that range from unpublished and poetry-adjacent community stake-holders, to award-winning poets and scholars, to C. R.'s own students. The Poetry Vlog across its distribution channels believes in the worlds we can build through dialogue-based knowledge production, supporting open access scholarship, community-based research, and accessible pedagogy. The Winter 2020 Student Team: Parker Kennedy - Video Editor Evelyn Niu - Video Editor Kristin Ruopp - Digital Marketing Reagan Welsh - Social Media & Communications Cheryl Wu - Content Writer & Designer Subscribe to our channel to join our fast-growing arts & scholarship community: ✔︎ http://youtube.com/c/thepoetryvlog?sub_confirmation=1 The Poetry Vlog Podcast: ✔︎ https://www.anchor.fm/thepoetryvlog . . . . . . . Receive FREE snail mail stickers and magnets with newsletter sign-up at: ✔︎ https://www.thepoetryvlog.com Say hi: ✔︎ http://instagram.com/thepoetryvlog ✔︎ http://www.twitter.com/thepoetryvlog ✔︎ https://www.facebook.com/thepoetryvlog ✔︎ https://www.thepoetryvlog.com Support this project: ✔︎ https://anchor.fm/thepoetryvlog/support . . . . . . . Catch up on Seasons 1 & 2: ✔︎ https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLsIc9vBng_A0scPpg9Wa7uVmxkE_Si5Ri 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.

Poet Jericho Brown joins TPV and reads his original work, discusses religion and the symbolism behind flowers in his writing, and the issues surrounding our search for similarities between ourselves and others. Listen to the podcast edition here: https://anchor.fm/thepoetryvlog/episodes/S3--E10-Jericho-Brown-on-Religion--Flowers--and-Insight-through-Writing-eacqef Jericho Brown is the recipient of fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard, and the National Endowment for the Arts, and he is the winner of the Whiting Writer's Award. Brown’s first book, Please (New Issues 2008), won the American Book Award. His second book, The New Testament (Copper Canyon 2014), won the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award. His third collection is The Tradition (Copper Canyon 2019). His poems have appeared in The Bennington Review, Buzzfeed, Fence, jubilat, The New Republic, The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Paris Review, TIME magazine, and several volumes of The Best American Poetry. He is an associate professor and the director of the Creative Writing Program at Emory University. ✔︎ https://www.jerichobrown.com ✔︎ https://twitter.com/jerichobrown ✔︎ https://www.instagram.com/jerichobrown1 ✔︎ https://www.facebook.com/jerichobrown . . . . . . . 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. Full episodes include guests that range from unpublished and poetry-adjacent community stake-holders, to award-winning poets and scholars, to C. R.'s own students. The Poetry Vlog across its distribution channels believes in the worlds we can build through dialogue-based knowledge production, supporting open access scholarship, community-based research, and accessible pedagogy. Subscribe to our channel to join our fast-growing arts & scholarship community: ✔︎ http://youtube.com/c/thepoetryvlog?sub_confirmation=1 The Poetry Vlog Podcast: ✔︎ https://www.anchor.fm/thepoetryvlog . . . . . . . Receive FREE snail mail stickers and magnets with newsletter sign-up at: ✔︎ https://www.thepoetryvlog.com Say hi: ✔︎ http://instagram.com/thepoetryvlog ✔︎ http://www.twitter.com/thepoetryvlog ✔︎ https://www.facebook.com/thepoetryvlog ✔︎ https://www.thepoetryvlog.com Support this project: ✔︎ https://anchor.fm/thepoetryvlog/support . . . . . . . Catch up on Seasons 1 & 2: ✔︎ https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLsIc9vBng_A0scPpg9Wa7uVmxkE_Si5Ri 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.

Writer and educator Rachel Edelman returns to TPV, reciting and discussing her original work, exploring connections between lineage, migration, and matriarchy, and unpacking the music and meaning from Hooray for the Riff Raff. Rachel Edelman grew up in a Jewish family in Memphis, Tennessee. Raised with a keen commitment to social justice and love of the outdoors, she spent much of her childhood reading historical fiction in her grandparents' magnolia tree. Rachel holds MFA in poetry from the University of Washington, where she taught composition and creative writing. She has been awarded an artist's residency at The Mineral School at Mt. Rainier, a Loren D. Milliman Fellowship, and two Academy of American Poets Prizes. Her poems, essays, and criticism have been published or are forthcoming in publications such as Beloit Poetry Journal, The Threepenny Review, Poetry Northwest, Southern Humanities Review, Scout Poetry, and The Critical Flame. She is currently at work on collections of poems and essays. Rachel graduated from Amherst College with a B.A. cum laude in English and geology. Following her undergraduate studies, she worked as an environmental educator and non-profit communications and development officer in Maine and Colorado. She now teaches high school English in Seattle. ✔︎ https://www.rachelsedelman.com ✔︎ https://twitter.com/rachelsedelman ✔︎ https://www.instagram.com/rachelsedelman . . . . . . . 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. Full episodes include guests that range from unpublished and poetry-adjacent community stake-holders, to award-winning poets and scholars, to C. R.'s own students. The Poetry Vlog across its distribution channels believes in the worlds we can build through dialogue-based knowledge production, supporting open access scholarship, community-based research, and accessible pedagogy. 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 Subscribe to our channel to join our fast-growing arts & scholarship community: ✔︎ http://youtube.com/c/thepoetryvlog?sub_confirmation=1 The Poetry Vlog Podcast: ✔︎ https://www.anchor.fm/thepoetryvlog . . . . . . . Receive FREE snail mail stickers and magnets with newsletter sign-up at: ✔︎ https://www.thepoetryvlog.com Say hi: ✔︎ http://instagram.com/thepoetryvlog ✔︎ http://www.twitter.com/thepoetryvlog ✔︎ https://www.facebook.com/thepoetryvlog ✔︎ https://www.thepoetryvlog.com Support this project: ✔︎ https://anchor.fm/thepoetryvlog/support . . . . . . . Catch up on Seasons 1 & 2: ✔︎ https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLsIc9vBng_A0scPpg9Wa7uVmxkE_Si5Ri 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.

Writer and educator Casandra Lopez reads and discusses her original work, the ethics of trauma narratives, & fostering art, creativity, and connection through car remodeling. Mentioned in this episode: ✔︎ Barbara Christian, "The Race for Theory" (https://pullias.usc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/christian.pdf) ✔︎ Kara Keeling, "Critical Theory and Popular Education" (https://www.academia.edu/8630216/Critical_Theory_and_Popular_Education) ✔︎ Dylan Miner (http://dylanminer.com) Casandra Lopez is a Chicana and California Indian (Cahuilla/Tongva/Luiseño) writer who’s received support from CantoMundo, Bread Loaf and Jackstraw. She’s been selected for residencies with the School of Advanced Research and Hedgebrook. Her chapbook, Where Bullet Breaks was published by the Sequoyah National Research Center and her poetry collection, Brother Bullet is forthcoming from University of Arizona. She’s a founding editor of As/Us: A Space For Women Of The World and teaches at Northwest Indian College. ✔︎ https://casandramlopez.com ✔︎ https://twitter.com/casandramlopez . . . . . . . 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. Full episodes include guests that range from unpublished and poetry-adjacent community stake-holders, to award-winning poets and scholars, to C. R.'s own students. The Poetry Vlog across its distribution channels believes in the worlds we can build through dialogue-based knowledge production, supporting open access scholarship, community-based research, and accessible pedagogy. 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 Subscribe to our channel to join our fast-growing arts & scholarship community: ✔︎ http://youtube.com/c/thepoetryvlog?sub_confirmation=1 The Poetry Vlog Podcast: ✔︎ https://www.anchor.fm/thepoetryvlog . . . . . . . Receive FREE snail mail stickers and magnets with newsletter sign-up at: ✔︎ https://www.thepoetryvlog.com Say hi: ✔︎ http://instagram.com/thepoetryvlog ✔︎ http://www.twitter.com/thepoetryvlog ✔︎ https://www.facebook.com/thepoetryvlog ✔︎ https://www.thepoetryvlog.com Support this project: ✔︎ https://anchor.fm/thepoetryvlog/support . . . . . . . Catch up on Seasons 1 & 2: ✔︎ https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLsIc9vBng_A0scPpg9Wa7uVmxkE_Si5Ri 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.