THE POETRY VLOG (TPV)

Author Somaiya Daud returns and discusses erasure in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, how the comic Monstress gets it right, and about representation and perspective in writing characters and story lines. Somaiya lives, works, and writes from Seattle, Washington. In 2018 her debut novel, Mirage, was released in the United States with Flatiron Books and the United Kingdom with Hodder & Stoughton. It was hailed as “poetically written”, “immersive and captivating” and “beautiful and necessary” by The School Library Journal, Booklist and Entertainment Weekly. Mirage has been shortlisted for the Children’s Africana Book Award and the Arab American Book Award. In 2020 Somaiya received her PhD in English Literature studies with a focus on world literature and nineteenth-century orientalism. ✔︎ https://www.somaiyabooks.com ✔︎ https://www.twitter.com/somaiyadaud ✔︎ https://www.instagram.com/somaiiiya . . . . . . . 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 Full episodes include guests that range from unpublished and poetry-adjacent community stake-holders, to award-winning poets and scholars, to C. R.'s own students.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 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.

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. Listen to the podcast version here: https://anchor.fm/thepoetryvlog/episodes/S3--Ep-4-Patrick-Milian-on-Lana-Del-Rey--John-Ashbery--and-The-American-Dream-e893qh “The One Thing That Can Save America” by John Ashbery: ✔︎ https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/101694/the-one-thing-that-can-save-america 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. ✔︎ https://www.instagram.com/patrick.milian/ ✔︎ 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. 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: ✔︎ https://www.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: ✔︎ https://www.instagram.com/thepoetryvlog ✔︎ https://www.twitter.com/thepoetryvlog ✔︎ https://www.facebook.com/thepoetryvlog ✔︎ https://www.thepoetryvlog.com Support this project: ✔︎ https://www.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.

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. Listen to the podcast version here: https://anchor.fm/thepoetryvlog/episodes/S3--E7-Julie-Carr-on-Poetry--Installation-Art--and-the-Blending-of-the-Selves-e934sm 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. ✔︎ http://www.juliecarrpoet.com ✔︎ https://www.reallifeaninstallation.com Julie's Recommendations: ✔︎ NOS (disorder, not otherwise specified) by Aby Kaupang & Matthew Cooperman ✔︎ Ghostly Matters by Avery Gordon ✔︎ The Hawthorn Archive: Letters from the Utopian Margins by Avery Gordon ✔︎ http://counterpathpress.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. 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.