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Three poetry films in latest issue of TriQuarterly

On 1 February, 2015 by Dave Bonta with 0 Comments - literary magazines and websites

TriQuarterly 147, Winter/Spring 2015 is out, and kicks off as usual with some high-quality poetry film: Situation 7, a video essay by poet Claudia Rankine and filmmaker John Lucas, and two “cinepoems”: John D. Scott’s In the Waiting Room (poem by Elizabeth Bishop) and Martha McCollough’s Indefinite Animals.

TriQuarterly remains one of the most prestigious literary journals to feature multimedia works. Submissions are open for five months, beginning on February 16.

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Miss Flora Looks in Her Mirror by Martha McCollough

On 6 August, 2014 by Dave Bonta with 2 Comments - Author-made videopoems
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A new film from Massachusetts-based videopoet Martha McCollough, one of three she’s placed so far in TriQuarterly. This one appears in their Summer/Fall 2014 issue. Kudos to their editors for changing their policy and allowing their videos to be embedded elsewhere.

McCollough continues to chart an independent course. Her work is like nobody else’s, mesmerizing and disturbing in equal measures — and always gorgeous.

Second Firing by Keary Rosen

On 15 July, 2014 by Dave Bonta with 2 Comments - Videopoems
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This entertaining piece by Keary Rosen (text and voice) and Kelly Oliver (filming and editing) is featured in TriQuarterly, one of three videos that kick off the latest issue. The magazine’s mishandling of submissions recently sparked a kerfuffle in the American writing community, suggesting that they may be having growing pains, and they remain out-of-step with web publishing norms in preventing their own videos from being shared on blogs and social media sites (or even viewed on Vimeo) — strong evidence that they have yet to fully transition from the scarcity mentality of print publishing to the abundance mentality of the web. But I continue to be encouraged by their foregrounding of multimedia work, and I wish more web journals would follow their lead in that respect.

UPDATE (24 July 2014): I’m pleased to report that all TriQuarterly films are now embeddable.

TriQuarterly welcomes submissions of “video essays and cinepoems”

On 4 February, 2013 by Dave Bonta with 0 Comments - literary magazines and websites, related genres

The venerable literary magazine TriQuarterly has just issued a Call for Cinepoems and Video Essays.

We welcome submissions of new video essays and cinepoems. We ask that you provide a link to the video (we’re partial to Vimeo, but other video-sharing sites work, too). The ideal run-time tends to fall within a four- to ten-minute range, but that’s a tendency, not a rule.

They’ve published two cinepoems already, and it’s interesting to see that they’re hosting their own video — something most online publishers don’t do, since this tends to be an expensive and complex undertaking. As of yet, TriQuarterly videos aren’t embeddable anywhere else (which may be the point).

It’s great to see a magazine of TriQuarterly’s stature open up to submissions of videopoetry. I’ve added them to our compendium of journals where videopoets can submit work as well as to the main links page.

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