THE POETRY VLOG (TPV)
YouTube and Podcast Teaching Series
The Poetry Vlog (TPV)
The Poetry Vlog, also known as "TPV" is a teaching YouTube Channel and Podcast dedicated to building social justice coalitions through arts, scholarship, and higher education dialogues. The project collaborations make evident the lived experiences of poets and scholars while sustaining both the amplification and archive of shared resources. Guests range from Pulitzer Poet Jericho Brown to C. R.'s own students. Each episode and season across topics and guests remain guided by a simple belief:
"Hope is not just a feeling, but a call to action, and poetry, as always, is already here to meet it."
Seasons & Selected Playlists
Below are key videos and playlists from TPV. The full archive is available on YouTube.
Season 4 of The Poetry Vlog (TPV)
The Poetry Vlog: Seasons 1 + 2
SEASON 3 of The Poetry Vlog
LGBTQIA+ Poetry Communities
Poetry Craft & Mechanics
Poetry & Visual Arts
2019 National Youth Poet Laureate Program in Collaboration with Urban Word NYC!
Narratives in Poetry
Translingualism and Multilingualism Poetry Episodes
The Poetry Vlog
Season 4 Editor & Season 5 Host
Ray Kaplan
Ray Kaplan is an Art History major, minoring in Psychology, Museum Studies, and Linguistics at Utah State University. He plans to attend graduate school one day, and eventually pursue a career as either a museum curator or a university professor. His research interests currently lie in artistic depictions of specific cultures and their impacts, and he has received an URCO grant to study antisemitism in the Medieval and Renaissance eras. Ray is a recipient of USU’s Presidential Scholarship, and is involved as an Honors student, an Undergraduate Teaching Fellow, a Lead Writing Fellow, an Undergraduate Research Fellow Ambassador, and a member of Art Council.
Meet The Season 3 Production Team
Season 3 (2018-2019) was edited and produced by a team of University of Washington students. Learn more about each team member below.
Kristin Ruopp
Digital Marketing & Outreach
Cheryl Wu
Content Writer & Designer
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Parker Kennedy
Video Editor
Reagan Welsh
Social Media Manager
Emily Oomen
Video Editor
Gene Wang
Video Editor
Wil Engstrom
Video Editor
Melanie Kuoch
Video Editor
Evelyn Niu
Video Editor
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Mimi Hoang
Illustrator
Supported By:
A Public Scholarship Summer Fellowship at the Simpson Center for the Humanities through their Andrew W. Mellon Foundation multi-year grant initiative, an Artist Support Fellowship at The Jack Straw Cultural Center, and Lee Scheingold.
