Another animation from Martha McCollough‘s erasure project Grey Vacation.

Jesse Russell Brooks edited and directed this film in collaboration with the author, Alexzenia Davis. The poems are “Make Me,” “My Silhouette,” and “A Lady’s Psyche.”

David Huntington‘s “visualization of the poem by A. R. Ammons.”

A highly imaginative remix of Tom Waits’ reading. This is definitely a case where the video improves on the poem for me. By itself, I find the text didactic and somewhat clichéd. But director Neil Chan, producer Kathryn Kelly and actress Skyler Carlin have taken it to another level.

I’ve posted a lot of dance + poetry videos and a lot of spoken word videos, but I believe this is the first in which the poet dances as he recites his poem. This was produced by the St. Paul, Minnesota-based organization Poetry Observed, which according to the description on YouTube “is committed to producing high quality videos of performance poetry, filmed off the stage. Our first series features Minnesota spoken word poets and was produced in collaboration with Button Poetry.”

The young South African filmmaker Coenraad Viviers and his assistants had perhaps a bit too much fun with this section of cummings’ poem. (Read the complete poem at the Poetry Foundation website.)

The translation by Peter Cole may be read at Poetry International Web. The filmmaker, Lotte Marie Allen, notes that this was

shot in nablus, ramallah, hebron, abu dis, qalandia, jericho, west bank. sinai, egypt. animations from arabic dictionary drawings, postcards, posters, roads and rock formations, my own drawings.

A collaboration between artist Vanessa Hodgkinson and poet Marianne Morris, according to the video description at Vimeo.

The film is a mixture of a shoot at Leighton House Museum, London, where the artist is recreating Ingres’ Le Bain Turc, surrounded by her own personal ‘Orientalist’ objects that tell her story, and footage from a british documentary on the storming of the Iranian embassy in Iran in the early 1980s, as well as YouTube footage of more recent activities at the embassy in London, but also the British Embassy in Tehran.

The work aims to combine recreation in both painterly and documentary styles of film-making, with real life events filmed by members of the public.

This kinetic text poetry animation by Nikolaus Lesnik uses a reading by Allen Ginsberg.

Alastair Cook‘s latest filmpoem features cinematography by James William Norton and a terrific score by Luca Nasciuti. Vicki Feaver is a highly regarded, regularly anthologized English poet with three poetry collections out.