Posts Tagged: Poetry Foundation
Grand Central, Track 23 by Lizzie Skurnick
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4HvwsuaNxuE
Cool watercolor animation by Neil Subel of a poem by the well-known literary blogger, YA author, and poet Lizzie Skurnick, read by the author.
Mulberry Fields by Lucille Clifton
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0UnLStD-pYk
Sad that it’s taken me this long to post something by one of my favorite poets, Lucille Clifton, but I’m not crazy about the animation here, by Jason Walczyk. Like many if not most of the animations sponsored by the Poetry Foundation, in its effort to make the poem accessible it ends up diminishing much of its mystery and power.
The text of the poem is here.
The Heat of Autumn by Jane Hirshfield
Poem by Jane Hirshfield (reading by Flora Coker)
Animation by Adam Deniston for the Poetry Foundation’s Poetry Everywhere series
En la calle San Sebastian by Martín Espada
Poem and reading by Martín Espada
Animation by Kwok Tung Shuen for the Poetry Foundation’s Poetry Everywhere series
Spacebar by Heather McHugh
http://youtu.be/1sXiMz9q1TI
Poem and reading by Heather McHugh
Animation by Braulio Garcia for the Poetry Foundation’s Poetry Everywhere series
Snowmen by Agha Shahid Ali
http://youtu.be/H4qk62qcG9w
Poem by Agha Shahid Ali (reading by Carl Hancock Rux) — text here
Animation by Kyle Jenkins for the Poetry Foundations’ Poetry Everywhere series
A posthumous volume of Ali’s collected poems, The Veiled Suite, has just been released. He was a master who died much too young. As for the video, I’m not sure it adds anything to the poem or not.
