Posts in Category: Videopoems

Immigrants by Ren Powell

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I’ve posted a number of Ren Powell’s other animations, but for some reason I skipped this one. As always, see her site Anima Poetics for a much sharper, Flash version.

Tickets to Your Morning in the Mirror by Tyler Flynn Dorholt

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Dorholt’s poems on the page are long, difficult and packed with arresting images, so it’s perhaps unsurprising that his videopoems would be the same. The text of this one originally appeared in Slope.

For links to all Dorholt’s films, see his blog.

Kleine Reise (Little Trip) by Claire Walka

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Outstanding poet-made videopoem. Claire Walka says in a note on Vimeo:

Doing shopping in the supermarket can become an expedition into a new world… A poem made of brand-names.

I’m grateful she took the time to add English subtitles so those of us with no German can appreciate this ingenious little film.

Sveta by Sergey Timofeyev

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Diana Palijchuk is the animator, and Arthur Punte did the montage. I found a Facebook page for the author, and he is indeed Latvian — the first to be included on Moving Poems — though, I presume, an ethnic Russian (his poems are in Russian).

The Black Hole by Zachary Schomburg

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Another “poem film” by Zachary Schomburg in support of his collection Scary, No Scary.

Wanting Sumptuous Heavens by Robert Bly

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Another MotionPoems production, designed and animated by Angella Kassube with a reading by the poet.

Parts of Speech by Holly Karapetkova

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A really fine author-made videopoem (hat-tip: 32 Poems Magazine). Karapetkova doesn’t appear to have a website, but there’s a brief bio at Gryphon House.

untitled poem by Ryan MacDonald

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One of a couple pieces by Ryan MacDonald at The Continental Review. He blogs at Brief Epigrams.

Window Interplay by Francisco José Blanco

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I don’t entirely understand Josephine Gustavsson’s explanation for the method here, but it sounds highly imaginative:

Every day, trains scrape off iron filings from the rails of the tube network. These filings are regularly removed by staff, since they can otherwise interfere with the signaling system. The procedure is carried out using a machine that contains a magnetic force.

The visualisation of the poem ‘Window Interplay’ is made for the moving image screens of the London Underground, to inspire Monday morning commuters. It is made through a series of explorations, making use of iron powder and magnetic fields.


Francisco José Blanco
is a Venezuelan artist resident in Sweden.

Every Day You Play (Juegas Todos los Días) by Pablo Neruda

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This is poem XIV from Veinte Poemas de Amor y Una Canción Desesperada (1924), envideoed by Will Jardine.