This is podcast episode is greatly supplemented by the video's visual aids on YouTube. To watch instead of/in addition to listening: (https://youtu.be/SEyC1uxGvUk). Gabrielle Bates talks about dark humor and the poetics of Bojack Horseman and how she sees it in conversation with her own work. We get a peek at some of her poetry comics recently published in Poetry Magazine and on The Poetry Foundation’s website (link below), hear her read her poem, “Lesson,” and hear her breaking down beginnings and ends of single lines effectively. More on Gabby -- Gabrielle Bates is the Social Media Manager of Open Books: A Poem Emporium, managing editor of the Seattle Review, an editorial assistant and contributing editor for Poetry Northwest, the official voice of Broadsided Press on Twitter, and a contributing editor for Bull City Press. Her poems and poetry comics appear or are forthcoming in the New Yorker, Poetry, New England Review, and Gulf Coast, and others. ● 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).
