Regularly updated websites and blogs covering poetry film or videopoety
- Atticus Review (Mixed Media category)
Videopoems and other digital literature pieces - Art Visuals & Poetry
Videopoems are regularly featured at this online hub of an artists’ collective in Vienna - Button Poetry
Well-produced performance poetry videos, released at the rate of one a day (they also have a website and a YouTube channel) - Cinematic Poems
A regularly updated blog sharing examples of “An Important Emerging Creative Short Film Genre” - The Continental Review
“One of the internet’s first video-only forums for contemporary video poetry and poetics” - Film and Video Poetry Society
An ambitious web platform for poetry filmmakers and videopoets - FilmPoem
No longer just the work of a single filmmaker (Alastair Cook), this project has spawned a traveling film festival - Motionpoems
Professional filmmakers adapt the works of major contemporary American poets - New River Journal
The web’s oldest journal devoted exclusively to digital writing and art, including videopoetry - Poetry Film Live
A UK-based magazine with monthly issues - PoetryFilm
News items regularly appear at this British screening series’ website - Poetryfilmkanal
The authoritative German web magazine on poetry film includes a lot of content in English - PoetrySeen
A magazine with a focus on poetry videos - TriQuarterly
The venerable literary journal began publishing cinepoetry and videoessays in 2013 - Versogramas
A very good videopoetry blog from Galicia, Spain - VIDEOPOETRY
A Spanish blog “abierto a la participación de creadores de videopoemas” - UbuWeb: film and video
An invaluable archive of classic avant-garde film
Occasionally updated, dormant or static sites worth checking out
- Blue’s Cruzio Cafe
Proprietor JJWebb produced machinima-style poetry animations from 2002-2011, and the site still sometimes shares videos produced by others - Born Magazine
Amazing Flash animations from “an experimental venue marrying literary arts and interactive media” - Connotation Press (video poetry section)
The “Third Form” column by Erica Goss ran monthly from 2013-2015 - International Poetry Festival of Medellín: Multimedia
The world’s largest annual poetry festival has a similarly impressive archive of performance videos - irreducible: a study on the concept and genre of poetry film
Poet and MFA student Laura Theobold blogged an independent study project on “the meaning and principals of the concept and genre of ‘poetry-film'” - Palabra Virtual: Poemas en video
390 videopoems for Spanish-language poetry - Poetry International Festival Rotterdam (video section)
A vast collection of well-produced poetry performance videos, with an increasing number of videopoems as well - Poetry’s Afterlife: Verse in the Digital Age by Kevin Stein
This online book includes a chapter on “Video and New Media Poetries“ - The Poetry Society
Poetry films commissioned by the UK’s premiere poetry organization - Rattapallax
They’ve produced a Poets on Film series; Verse: a poetic murder mystery in seven chapters; and other poetry videos - The Sonnet Project
From NY Shakespeare Exchange, 154 sonnets, 154 NYC locations, 154 actors - Synesthesia
Like Born Magazine, a site that paired writers with Flash animators - Tin House Reels
Animated poems and other “videos by artists who are forming interesting new relationships between images and words” - Traveling Stanzas
A public poetry project in Ohio that includes animations, involving poets who are regular members of the community, such as public school students and health-care providers, and graphic design students from Kent State University - Videopojezija/Видеопоэзия
A Russian site devoted to poetry video, using a unique classification scheme - The Volta: Medium
“MEDIUM is the weekly video column and journal of THE VOLTA, featuring short movies of poets and other kinds of writers.”
Single-artist sites
- Eduardo Yagüe
Spanish filmmaker specializing in vídeo poesía / video poetry - Elephant’s Footprint
Film and video poetry by U.K. poet Chaucer Cameron and photographer/director Helen Dewberry - George Aguilar: Cin(E)-Poetry
Essays and other resources from a pioneer in the genre - Kate Greenstreet
American poet, artist and filmmaker - ottar ormstad – yellow poetry
Videopoetry and more from a Norwegian master of concrete poetry - poetrycinema
Dutch poetry filmmaker Helmie Stil’s production company - Tom Konyves’ page on Academia.edu
Canadian poet Tom Konyves originally coined the term “videopoetry” and remains its foremost authority
Book publishers with poetry video divisions
- Bloodaxe Books (Vimeo page)
One of the largest poetry presses to put such an emphasis on videos for the web and DVD, directed by Pamela Robertson-Pearce - Gasspedal Animert (Vimeo page) / Webpage (in Norwegian)
Nicely abstract animations for “a Norwegian small press publishing the chap book series Biblioteket Gasspedal” - Longbarrow Press (Films page) / (Vimeo page)
“The short films created by Longbarrow Press include performance footage, animation, film-poems and location-based documentaries”
Social media
- Vimeo: Video and Film Poetry group; Poetry group (1); Poetry group (2); Poetry / Spoken Word group; POOLVIDEO; ZEBRA Poetry Film Club
- Facebook: Filmpoem group; The Film & Video Poetry Society; Liberated Words group; Visible Verse Festival group; ZEBRA Poetry Film Club
Poetry film festival links are now on their own page.