In 2005 I first began experimenting with rhythmic effects in relation to text-based, minimalist video poems as an extension of my work as a painter, filmmaker and writer. Continue Reading
The British poet and poetry-film scholar Lucy English has a very interesting essay in Sabotage recounting the genesis of her Book of Hours project and how she’s adapted her poetic style to the exigencies of collaborative poetry-film creation. Continue Reading
Help contribute to the world’s first full-length documentary about videopoetry. Continue Reading
Ploughshares, one of the most prestigious American print literary magazines, has a new essay about poetry videos up on their blog, authored by one of their regular bloggers, Ruben Quesada, himself a competent maker of poetry videos. Continue Reading
Grindr has just hired its first poet in residence: UK model and writer Max Wallis. He’ll be making a video poem each month to be flashed in the app and also on its new platform, Into. Continue Reading
I’ve made it a rule not to share videos of my own poems on Moving Poems, but I’m making an exception just this once. When the filmmaker and musician Marc Neys A.K.A. Swoon heard I had a new book coming out, he offered to make a video trailer for it if I’d send him some footage. Continue Reading
The Big Bridges exhibition takes on an ambitious and difficult conversation that should be in the forefront of our local and national concerns. I decided the project should begin with my journey to the bridges and then match a winning poem with what I observed and documented. Continue Reading
I couldn’t be happier to have had access to Nina Corwin’s fine poem at The Poetry Storehouse, and the film-making process provided me with recovery and closure, yet helped me to document my emotions before, during and after a traumatic life event. Continue Reading
All of next season’s Motionpoems will come from African American writers. If you’re a Cave Canem fellow, they want you to submit. Continue Reading
The objective beforehand was to create a few brand-new videopoems in one day. First I showed some examples of videopoetry and talked about the genre a bit—not too long, though. Doing it is the best way to learn in my opinion. Continue Reading