The Poetry Vlog's video: 2019 Youth Poet Laureate Kara Jackson Explaining blackfeminist Embodiment Legacy

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. Season 1 debuted in Fall 2018 and Season 2 in Winter 2019. After a June 2019 break, Season 3 will be funded by an Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Summer Fellowship, with training and support provided by the Jack Straw Cultural Center's Artist Support Fellowship. Full episodes include guests that range from unpublished and poetry-adjacent community stake-holders, to award-winning poets and scholars, to C. R.'s own students.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. Join us by subscribing to our channel (just click the "subscribe" button and it will add you from your Google account) to support the free education project and join our fast-growing arts and scholarship community: https://www.youtube.com/c/thepoetryvlog?sub_confirmation=1 Podcast Edition of TPV: ✔︎ https://anchor.fm/thepoetryvlog - About: 2019 National Youth Poet Laureate Kara Jackson reads hers and Lucille Clifton's work. We discuss Black feminist embodiment, Toni Morrison, musical influences (think Marvin Gaye, Joan Baez, and Joni Mitchell), and Kara's mentors, such as Jamila Woods (wherein I legit fangirl). In the words of Terrance Hayes: "“Kara is amazing! She’s a terrific writer of course in the poems but in the prose too. Style plus insight.” Listen in and show Kara Jackson love in the comments! Special shout out to Dr. Camea Davis, Urban Word NYC, and The National Youth Poet Laureate Program (see links below) for putting together such a rad collaboration. On Kara Jackson: Kara Jackson is the daughter of country folks. She is the Youth Poet Laureate of Chicago. Her work investigates a trail of language that leads from the South to the North. Through a multidisciplinary approach, Jackson attempts to document her lineage of divine womanhood in a country that demands its erasure. She is a product of the literary bloodline created by women like Zora Neale Hurston, Toni Morrison, Alice Walker, Buffy Sainte-Marie, and Joan Baez. Jackson is an alum of the solo voice jazz ensemble at Merit School of Music. Jackson received the Scholastic Art and Writing Award for her short story Nursery Rhymes, which won a silver medal at the national level. She is an Adroit Journal mentee. Jackson is an alum of the Spoken Word Club at Oak Park River Forest High school. She represented the school in the Louder Than a Bomb festival from 2016-2018, and in her final year performed on final stage at the Auditorium Theatre, where she was granted the Literary Award by Patricia Smith. Her poems have appeared in POETRY, Frontier Poetry, Rookie Mag, Nimrod Literary Journal, and Saint Heron. She has two articles published in Blavity. She has two poems featured in the latest anthology edited by Kevin Coval, The End of Chiraq. Jackson is a TEDx speaker. She will attend Smith College in the fall of 2019. - ✔︎ Podcast edition: https://anchor.fm/thepoetryvlog/ ✔︎ Kara's TEDx Talk: https://bit.ly/KJTEDx/ ✔︎ VS Podcast: https://bit.ly/karavs/ - Say hi to Kara: ✔︎ https://www.instagram.com/fridahalo/ ✔︎ https://twitter.com/fridahalo/ - The National Youth Poet Laureate Program: ✔︎ https://www.youthlaureate.org/ ✔︎ https://urbanwordnyc.org/ ✔︎ https://cameadavis.com/ - Catch up on Seasons 1 & 2 before the Season 3 launch: ✔︎ https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLsIc9vBng_A0scPpg9Wa7uVmxkE_Si5Ri - Receive Snail Mail stickers and magnets (FREE) with newsletter sign-up at: ✔︎ https://thepoetryvlog.com Become a patron of The Poetry Vlog Education Project: ✔︎ https://www.anchor.fm/thepoetryvlog/support The Every Day Things (yes, if you are my student it’s ok to follow me on IG): ✔︎ https://www.instagram.com/thepoetryvlog Cross-Platform Clips & Updates: ✔︎ https://www.facebook.com/thepoetryvlog Commentary & Connection: ✔︎ https://www.twitter.com/thepoetryvlog