Conversation with Poetry Film Live editors
Last summer, I met with Helen Dewbery and Chaucer Cameron for a wide-ranging discussion about poetry film and videopoetry. Here’s a short sample. Continue Reading
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A month of women’s poetry film: some observations and questions
I’ve been posting only videos or films by women since late October. The success of the exercise raises some interesting questions. Continue Reading
Exploring Contemplative Effects in Text-Based Video Poems
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
Lucy English on poetry-film collaboration
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
VERSOGRAMAS launches crowdfunding campaign to make a documentary about videopoetry
Help contribute to the world’s first full-length documentary about videopoetry. Continue Reading
New essay on poetry videos and the evolution of language at Ploughshares
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
Max Wallis to make videopoems as poet in residence at Grindr
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
Ice Mountain
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
Big Bridges: The smoke, the cars and clouds, the quiet, the river
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
Flick the Switch: The Making of “Homeopathy”
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