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The Laughing Heart by Charles Bukowski

On 14 May, 2012 by Dave Bonta with 1 Comments - Videopoems
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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.

When I Move by Khary Jackson

On 11 May, 2012 by Dave Bonta with 1 Comments - Dance, Performance Poetry
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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.”

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

On 10 May, 2012 by Dave Bonta with 1 Comments - Videopoems
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http://vimeo.com/39763560

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

On 7 May, 2012 by Dave Bonta with 0 Comments - Animation, Concrete and visual poetry
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This kinetic text poetry animation by Nikolaus Lesnik uses a reading by Allen Ginsberg.

A Border History by Forrest Gander

On 2 May, 2012 by Dave Bonta with 0 Comments - Author-made videopoems
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Poem, music and film are all by Forrest Gander.

Subway Services by Philip Dacey

On 1 May, 2012 by Dave Bonta with 0 Comments - Videopoems
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A neon animation by Jack Feldstein based on a poem by Philip Dacey.

The Last Days of the Suicide Kid by Charles Bukowski

On 30 April, 2012 by Dave Bonta with 3 Comments - Videopoems
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An award-winning film by Dutch filmmaker and artist RJ (Jetze Roel van Assen).

when you land in New Orleans by Ben Pelhan

On 26 April, 2012 by Dave Bonta with 1 Comments - Author-made videopoems
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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

On 25 April, 2012 by Dave Bonta with 0 Comments - Animation, Author-made videopoems, Concrete and visual poetry
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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.”

Fireflies by Raymond Luczak

On 23 April, 2012 by Dave Bonta with 0 Comments - Author-made videopoems
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Raymond Luczak signs a poem from his newly re-issued book This Way to the Acorns, which sounds great: a collection of nature poems based on memories of his childhood in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. The music is by John Stutte.

The Lockless Door by Robert Frost

On 19 April, 2012 by Dave Bonta with 0 Comments - Animation
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The graphics exist to support the soundtrack here, but I still thought it was an effective videopoem. Ryerson University film student Adin Dell advises, “Put on some headphones or turn up the volume to really hear the ‘soundscape.'”

from The Mysterious Human Heart by Matthew Dickman

On 17 April, 2012 by Dave Bonta with 1 Comments - Videopoems
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Mexican filmmaker Patricia Nieto’s brief but effective envideoing of a fragment from Matthew Dickman. The poem originally appeared in The American Poetry Review, and is reproduced in its entirety at a blog called The Poetry Place.