United States

from “i carry your heart with me(i carry it in” by e.e. cummings

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.)

Written in My Dream by William Carlos Williams

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

A Border History by Forrest Gander

Poem, music and film are all by Forrest Gander.

Subway Services by Philip Dacey

A neon animation by Jack Feldstein based on a poem by Philip Dacey.

The Last Days of the Suicide Kid by Charles Bukowski

An award-winning film by Dutch filmmaker and artist RJ (Jetze Roel van Assen).

when you land in New Orleans by Ben Pelhan

Ben Pelhan shot, wrote, edited, supplied the voice, etc. Pelhan is a Pittsburgh native currently living in New Orleans. “When he’s not playing poet he plays with whatever video equipment he can get his hands on,” according to a recent bio at smoking glue gun.

innocent beat by Martha McCollough

An interesting kinetic-text animation by Martha McCollough, a painter and animator from Boston, who notes in the description that it it is “Based on a page from my erasure project Grey Vacation. The wrongest thing ever said.”