The Art of Poetry Film with Cheryl Gross: Mike Galsworthy and Corinne Weidmann
Short collaborations can be either a godsend or a total bust. Here’s a good example of the former. Continue Reading
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Swoon’s View: The Real and Pure Worlds of Janet Lees and Terry Rooney
Short. Sharp. Quirky. Strange. Lovely. That’s how the videopoetry of Janet Lees (with Terry Rooney or on her own) comes across. Continue Reading
Twin-sister videopoetry collaborators featured at Connotation Press
For her Third Form column at Connotation Press this month, Erica Goss interviewed Cecelia and Justine Post, the artist and poet behind the videopoem/book trailer Beast (which I also shared at Moving Poems a few weeks back). Poet Justine Post… Continue Reading
Filmmaker seeks poet
http://vimeo.com/40802011 I am looking for a writer who is willing to let these three films inspire him/her to write three poems for them… Look and listen…absorb…look and listen some more…and write… I’m looking for three new poems (please use the… Continue Reading
Videopoetry makers Swoon and David Tomaloff featured at CoronationPress.com
Check out this terrific interview with Belgian filmmaker Swoon and American poet David Tomaloff about their recent collaboration on a triptych of videopoems. I loved learning about their collaborative process and how they thought of each other’s work, and as… Continue Reading
Call for submissions or your poems are dying to be a videopoem triptych
Whale Sound, Cello Dreams and Swoon are looking for poems with which to create a videopoem triptych. Do you have a group of three poems you’d like to have published as videopoems? They could be three of your own poems,… Continue Reading
The Filming of Poetry
Published in Anon Seven, July 2010. Anon is the anonymous submissions magazine, edited by Colin Fraser and Peggy Hughes. The combination of film and poetry is an attractive one. For the poet, perhaps a hope that the filmmaker will bring… Continue Reading
Morgan Downie on videopoetry and surrendering to time vampires
Scottish poet Morgan Downie shared some of his thoughts about videopoetry and his collaboration with Alastair Cook (see their two videos) in “time vampires,” a blog post from April 28 which I only just discovered. He includes some kind words… Continue Reading