LÉO FERRÉ

When the low, heavy sky weighs like the giant lid. Of a great pot upon the spirit crushed by care, And from the whole horizon encircling us is shed. A day blacker than night, and thicker with despair; When Earth becomes a dungeon, where the timid bat. Called Confidence, against the damp and slippery walls. Goes beating his blind wings,

goes

SPAIN | NATIONALITY | MOVING POEMS Screens is a poem from Celia Parra‘s most recent book, Pantallas.The author speaks her own words and is also the film-maker. Original music, sound recording and final mix is by Alejandro Almau.. The video explores the effects on our perceptions of reality

ROBERT FULLERTON

Working-class voices are all too rare in poetry, so I’m delighted to be able to share this profound and lyrical documentary by Callum Rice in which Glaswegian poet Robert Fullerton reflects on how his approach to writing was shaped by his experiences as a welder. It was featured three years ago in Aeon (which I clearly don’t read faithfully enough) in partnership with the Scottish

JULIO CORTÁZAR

This is from the first chapter of Cronopios and Famas, translated by Paul Backburn, “The Instruction Manual” — “an absurd assortment of tasks and items dissected in an instruction-manual format,” according to the publisher’s description on Amazon.. Sari Rachman is the actress, and also supplied the voiceover reading of the poem. Leonardo Cariglino did everything else.

ROSE AUSLÄNDER

A film interpretation of a Rose Auslander poem by the documentary filmmaker Lisa Seidenberg. I’ll be traveling to Europe soon myself, and this videopoem is helping me psych myself up for it. Reading the English Wikipedia entry on Ausländer, I was struck by this factoid: In the spring of 1943 Ausländer met poet Paul Celan in the Cernauti

ghetto.

HEARTBREAK BY EMMET KIRWAN Heartbreak is a feminist poetry film for women and men. Courageous, angry, heartbreaking; an exclamation mark. A film the world must see. C’mere, C’mere, C’mere. The YouTube description notes that it was “commissioned and developed by THISISPOPBABY as part of RIOT, Winner of Best Production at Dublin Fringe Festival 2016.”.

KERRY DARBISHIRE

0:00. 0:00. 0:00 / 2:29. Live. •. A filmpoem by Karen Dennison, who also supplied the voiceover. The text was written by Jemma Borg, Annie Butler, Kerry Darbishire, Catherine Fletcher, Bashabi Fraser, Carl Griffin, Philip Gross, Chrys Salt, and Alina Stefanescu. Here’s the YouTube description: Arrival at Elsewhere is a book length long poem HOTEL BY GUILLAUME APOLLINAIRE The filmmaker is Ahmet Tigli, about whom I was able to discover nothing in English. I’m not sure who authored the translation, but here’s the original: Hôtel Ma chambre a la forme d’une cage, Le soleil passe son bras par la fenêtre. Mais moi qui veux fumer pour faire des mirages J’allume au feu du RISE BY KATHY JETNIL-KIJINER AND AKA NIVIANA 0:00 / 6:31. Live. •. Climate activists and poets, Kathy Jetnil-Kijiner and Aka Niviana, travel to the latter’s home of Greenland to recite their collaborative poem, Rise, on a melting glacier that might threaten the former’s home nation of the Marshall Islands in the Pacific. I SHAKE OUT MY COAT BY MICHAEL SYMMONS ROBERTS This is Filmpoem 39, by the core team at Filmpoem: directed by Alastair Cook with cinematography by James William Norton and sound composed by Luca Nasciuti.The text, by Michael Symmons Roberts, was one of four new poems by British poets on the theme of migration commissioned for Filmpoem Festival 2014.. The video is also presented on the Filmpoem website, an increasingly

LÉO FERRÉ

When the low, heavy sky weighs like the giant lid. Of a great pot upon the spirit crushed by care, And from the whole horizon encircling us is shed. A day blacker than night, and thicker with despair; When Earth becomes a dungeon, where the timid bat. Called Confidence, against the damp and slippery walls. Goes beating his blind wings,

goes

SPAIN | NATIONALITY | MOVING POEMS Screens is a poem from Celia Parra‘s most recent book, Pantallas.The author speaks her own words and is also the film-maker. Original music, sound recording and final mix is by Alejandro Almau.. The video explores the effects on our perceptions of reality

ROBERT FULLERTON

Working-class voices are all too rare in poetry, so I’m delighted to be able to share this profound and lyrical documentary by Callum Rice in which Glaswegian poet Robert Fullerton reflects on how his approach to writing was shaped by his experiences as a welder. It was featured three years ago in Aeon (which I clearly don’t read faithfully enough) in partnership with the Scottish

JULIO CORTÁZAR

This is from the first chapter of Cronopios and Famas, translated by Paul Backburn, “The Instruction Manual” — “an absurd assortment of tasks and items dissected in an instruction-manual format,” according to the publisher’s description on Amazon.. Sari Rachman is the actress, and also supplied the voiceover reading of the poem. Leonardo Cariglino did everything else.

ROSE AUSLÄNDER

A film interpretation of a Rose Auslander poem by the documentary filmmaker Lisa Seidenberg. I’ll be traveling to Europe soon myself, and this videopoem is helping me psych myself up for it. Reading the English Wikipedia entry on Ausländer, I was struck by this factoid: In the spring of 1943 Ausländer met poet Paul Celan in the Cernauti

ghetto.

HEARTBREAK BY EMMET KIRWAN Heartbreak is a feminist poetry film for women and men. Courageous, angry, heartbreaking; an exclamation mark. A film the world must see. C’mere, C’mere, C’mere. The YouTube description notes that it was “commissioned and developed by THISISPOPBABY as part of RIOT, Winner of Best Production at Dublin Fringe Festival 2016.”.

KERRY DARBISHIRE

0:00. 0:00. 0:00 / 2:29. Live. •. A filmpoem by Karen Dennison, who also supplied the voiceover. The text was written by Jemma Borg, Annie Butler, Kerry Darbishire, Catherine Fletcher, Bashabi Fraser, Carl Griffin, Philip Gross, Chrys Salt, and Alina Stefanescu. Here’s the YouTube description: Arrival at Elsewhere is a book length long poem HOTEL BY GUILLAUME APOLLINAIRE The filmmaker is Ahmet Tigli, about whom I was able to discover nothing in English. I’m not sure who authored the translation, but here’s the original: Hôtel Ma chambre a la forme d’une cage, Le soleil passe son bras par la fenêtre. Mais moi qui veux fumer pour faire des mirages J’allume au feu du RISE BY KATHY JETNIL-KIJINER AND AKA NIVIANA 0:00 / 6:31. Live. •. Climate activists and poets, Kathy Jetnil-Kijiner and Aka Niviana, travel to the latter’s home of Greenland to recite their collaborative poem, Rise, on a melting glacier that might threaten the former’s home nation of the Marshall Islands in the Pacific. I SHAKE OUT MY COAT BY MICHAEL SYMMONS ROBERTS This is Filmpoem 39, by the core team at Filmpoem: directed by Alastair Cook with cinematography by James William Norton and sound composed by Luca Nasciuti.The text, by Michael Symmons Roberts, was one of four new poems by British poets on the theme of migration commissioned for Filmpoem Festival 2014.. The video is also presented on the Filmpoem website, an increasingly SPAIN | NATIONALITY | MOVING POEMS Screens is a poem from Celia Parra‘s most recent book, Pantallas.The author speaks her own words and is also the film-maker. Original music, sound recording and final mix is by Alejandro Almau.. The video explores the effects on our perceptions of reality OJIBWE | NATIONALITY | MOVING POEMS A fascinating experiment in translation. R. Vincent Moniz, Jr. is the producer and co-director with Jonathan Thunder (art direction and animation). Poet Heid E. Erdrich collaborated with translator Margaret Noodin of Ojibwe.net, as the YouTube description makes clear:. This short poem film, created by R. Vincent Moniz, Jr. and Jonathan Thunder, experiments with animation and sound in a bi THE WILD IRIS BY LOUISE GLÜCK This is Iris, a translation of Louise Glück‘s famous poem into sign language (I presume Dutch Sign Language) by the deaf Dutch poet Wim Emmerik.It was recorded in 2014, the year before Emmerik’s death, by Ellen Nauta, edited by Max Vonk, and uploaded to Vimeo by Onno Crasborn, a linguist specializing in sign language at Radbound Univeristy in the Netherlands. SCOTLAND | NATIONALITY | MOVING POEMS A Shetlandic filmpoem by poet, filmmaker and musician Roseanne Walt, one of a series of four filmpoems featuring masked beings and texts from Dr. Walt’s award-winning, bilingual collection Moder Dy (Mother Wave). Stoal // Raaga is. A series of filmpoems exploring themes of modern myth, memory and landscape. MOVING POEMS MAGAZINE Call for entries: 2021 Film and Video Poetry Symposium. March 8, 2021 Dave Bonta. The L.A.-based Film and Video Poetry Society’s 4th annual symposium is open for submissions from “Poets, Writers, filmmakers, animators, video and digital artists, HOTEL BY GUILLAUME APOLLINAIRE The filmmaker is Ahmet Tigli, about whom I was able to discover nothing in English. I’m not sure who authored the translation, but here’s the original: Hôtel Ma chambre a la forme d’une cage, Le soleil passe son bras par la fenêtre. Mais moi qui veux fumer pour faire des mirages J’allume au feu du

KATE SWEENEY

This new poetry film by UK filmmaker Kate Sweeney, based on a poem by Sean O’Brien, was commissioned by the 2016 Newcastle Poetry Festival.The Vimeo description reads: In response to extracts from Sean O’ Brien’s same-titled poem, ‘Hammersmith’ is an elegiac, hand-drawn animation sweeping through 1950’s London. drawn from the iconic cinematography from Jules Dessin’s 1950

JULIO CORTÁZAR

This is from the first chapter of Cronopios and Famas, translated by Paul Backburn, “The Instruction Manual” — “an absurd assortment of tasks and items dissected in an instruction-manual format,” according to the publisher’s description on Amazon.. Sari Rachman is the actress, and also supplied the voiceover reading of the poem. Leonardo Cariglino did everything else. JOHN LUCAS | FILMMAKER | MOVING POEMS Published online at TriQuarterly a year ago, this is the most recent of the Situation videos produced by Claudia Rankine with her husband, documentary photographer John Lucas, and included in text form in her award-winning collection of prose poetry Citizen. KARAWANE BY HUGO BALL Karawane by Hugo Ball. This opens in a new window. This may be the least poetic poetry video I’ve ever posted here, but I found it oddly compelling and hypnotic. It’s a translation of a Dadaist poem into binary code by Lucas Battich, who writes: ‘Karawane’ is a poem written and performed by Hugo Ball in 1916, and it consists of

MOVING POEMS

Filmmaker Karen Dennison writes in a blog post,. As part of Abegail Morley’s series of posts on The Poetry Shed on the theme of Unlocking Creativity, I compiled a film as a prompt with a call out to poets to respond.Jill Munro wrote a fantastic poem in response and here is the resulting film poem.

LÉO FERRÉ

When the low, heavy sky weighs like the giant lid. Of a great pot upon the spirit crushed by care, And from the whole horizon encircling us is shed. A day blacker than night, and thicker with despair; When Earth becomes a dungeon, where the timid bat. Called Confidence, against the damp and slippery walls. Goes beating his blind wings,

goes

HEARTBREAK BY EMMET KIRWAN Heartbreak is a feminist poetry film for women and men. Courageous, angry, heartbreaking; an exclamation mark. A film the world must see. C’mere, C’mere, C’mere. The YouTube description notes that it was “commissioned and developed by THISISPOPBABY as part of RIOT, Winner of Best Production at Dublin Fringe Festival 2016.”.

ROBERT FULLERTON

Working-class voices are all too rare in poetry, so I’m delighted to be able to share this profound and lyrical documentary by Callum Rice in which Glaswegian poet Robert Fullerton reflects on how his approach to writing was shaped by his experiences as a welder. It was featured three years ago in Aeon (which I clearly don’t read faithfully enough) in partnership with the Scottish SCOTLAND | NATIONALITY | MOVING POEMS A Shetlandic filmpoem by poet, filmmaker and musician Roseanne Walt, one of a series of four filmpoems featuring masked beings and texts from Dr. Walt’s award-winning, bilingual collection Moder Dy (Mother Wave). Stoal // Raaga is. A series of filmpoems exploring themes of modern myth, memory and landscape.

JULIO CORTÁZAR

This is from the first chapter of Cronopios and Famas, translated by Paul Backburn, “The Instruction Manual” — “an absurd assortment of tasks and items dissected in an instruction-manual format,” according to the publisher’s description on Amazon.. Sari Rachman is the actress, and also supplied the voiceover reading of the poem. Leonardo Cariglino did everything else.

ROSE AUSLÄNDER

A film interpretation of a Rose Auslander poem by the documentary filmmaker Lisa Seidenberg. I’ll be traveling to Europe soon myself, and this videopoem is helping me psych myself up for it. Reading the English Wikipedia entry on Ausländer, I was struck by this factoid: In the spring of 1943 Ausländer met poet Paul Celan in the Cernauti

ghetto.

SPAIN | NATIONALITY | MOVING POEMS Screens is a poem from Celia Parra‘s most recent book, Pantallas.The author speaks her own words and is also the film-maker. Original music, sound recording and final mix is by Alejandro Almau.. The video explores the effects on our perceptions of reality RISE BY KATHY JETNIL-KIJINER AND AKA NIVIANA 0:00 / 6:31. Live. •. Climate activists and poets, Kathy Jetnil-Kijiner and Aka Niviana, travel to the latter’s home of Greenland to recite their collaborative poem, Rise, on a melting glacier that might threaten the former’s home nation of the Marshall Islands in the Pacific. WINGS OF DESIRE IS A POETRY FILM Erica Goss served as Poet Laureate of Los Gatos, CA from 2013-2016. She is the author of Night Court, winner of the 2016 Lyrebird Award, Wild Place and Vibrant Words: Ideas and Inspirations for Poets.Recent work appears in Lake Effect, Atticus Review, Contrary, Convergence, Spillway, Cider Press Review, Eclectica, The Tishman Review, Tinderbox, The Red Wheelbarrow, and Main Street Rag, among

MOVING POEMS

Filmmaker Karen Dennison writes in a blog post,. As part of Abegail Morley’s series of posts on The Poetry Shed on the theme of Unlocking Creativity, I compiled a film as a prompt with a call out to poets to respond.Jill Munro wrote a fantastic poem in response and here is the resulting film poem.

LÉO FERRÉ

When the low, heavy sky weighs like the giant lid. Of a great pot upon the spirit crushed by care, And from the whole horizon encircling us is shed. A day blacker than night, and thicker with despair; When Earth becomes a dungeon, where the timid bat. Called Confidence, against the damp and slippery walls. Goes beating his blind wings,

goes

HEARTBREAK BY EMMET KIRWAN Heartbreak is a feminist poetry film for women and men. Courageous, angry, heartbreaking; an exclamation mark. A film the world must see. C’mere, C’mere, C’mere. The YouTube description notes that it was “commissioned and developed by THISISPOPBABY as part of RIOT, Winner of Best Production at Dublin Fringe Festival 2016.”.

ROBERT FULLERTON

Working-class voices are all too rare in poetry, so I’m delighted to be able to share this profound and lyrical documentary by Callum Rice in which Glaswegian poet Robert Fullerton reflects on how his approach to writing was shaped by his experiences as a welder. It was featured three years ago in Aeon (which I clearly don’t read faithfully enough) in partnership with the Scottish SCOTLAND | NATIONALITY | MOVING POEMS A Shetlandic filmpoem by poet, filmmaker and musician Roseanne Walt, one of a series of four filmpoems featuring masked beings and texts from Dr. Walt’s award-winning, bilingual collection Moder Dy (Mother Wave). Stoal // Raaga is. A series of filmpoems exploring themes of modern myth, memory and landscape.

JULIO CORTÁZAR

This is from the first chapter of Cronopios and Famas, translated by Paul Backburn, “The Instruction Manual” — “an absurd assortment of tasks and items dissected in an instruction-manual format,” according to the publisher’s description on Amazon.. Sari Rachman is the actress, and also supplied the voiceover reading of the poem. Leonardo Cariglino did everything else.

ROSE AUSLÄNDER

A film interpretation of a Rose Auslander poem by the documentary filmmaker Lisa Seidenberg. I’ll be traveling to Europe soon myself, and this videopoem is helping me psych myself up for it. Reading the English Wikipedia entry on Ausländer, I was struck by this factoid: In the spring of 1943 Ausländer met poet Paul Celan in the Cernauti

ghetto.

SPAIN | NATIONALITY | MOVING POEMS Screens is a poem from Celia Parra‘s most recent book, Pantallas.The author speaks her own words and is also the film-maker. Original music, sound recording and final mix is by Alejandro Almau.. The video explores the effects on our perceptions of reality RISE BY KATHY JETNIL-KIJINER AND AKA NIVIANA 0:00 / 6:31. Live. •. Climate activists and poets, Kathy Jetnil-Kijiner and Aka Niviana, travel to the latter’s home of Greenland to recite their collaborative poem, Rise, on a melting glacier that might threaten the former’s home nation of the Marshall Islands in the Pacific. WINGS OF DESIRE IS A POETRY FILM Erica Goss served as Poet Laureate of Los Gatos, CA from 2013-2016. She is the author of Night Court, winner of the 2016 Lyrebird Award, Wild Place and Vibrant Words: Ideas and Inspirations for Poets.Recent work appears in Lake Effect, Atticus Review, Contrary, Convergence, Spillway, Cider Press Review, Eclectica, The Tishman Review, Tinderbox, The Red Wheelbarrow, and Main Street Rag, among ABOUT | MOVING POEMS About. “Film, I believe, lends itself particularly to the poetic statement, because it is essentially a montage and, therefore, seems by its very nature to be a poetic medium.” —Maya Deren. Welcome to Moving Poems, an on-going anthology of the best poetry videos from around the web. Subscribe by email to get a weekly round-up of all our LOCKDOWN BY SIMON ARMITAGE Lockdown is a new song by LYR, featuring Florence Pugh and Pete Wareham of Melt Yourself Down. The song is set to a poem by poet laureate Simon Armitage, written in response to the coronavirus restrictions. ‘Lockdown’ moves from the outbreak of bubonic plague in Eyam, Derbyshire in the 17th century – when a bale of cloth sent

from London

SCOTLAND | NATIONALITY | MOVING POEMS A Shetlandic filmpoem by poet, filmmaker and musician Roseanne Walt, one of a series of four filmpoems featuring masked beings and texts from Dr. Walt’s award-winning, bilingual collection Moder Dy (Mother Wave). Stoal // Raaga is. A series of filmpoems exploring themes of modern myth, memory and landscape. THE WILD IRIS BY LOUISE GLÜCK This is Iris, a translation of Louise Glück‘s famous poem into sign language (I presume Dutch Sign Language) by the deaf Dutch poet Wim Emmerik.It was recorded in 2014, the year before Emmerik’s death, by Ellen Nauta, edited by Max Vonk, and uploaded to Vimeo by Onno Crasborn, a linguist specializing in sign language at Radbound Univeristy in the Netherlands. JOHN LUCAS | FILMMAKER | MOVING POEMS One of a series of “Situation” videos created by Jamaican-American poet Claudia Rankine in collaboration with her husband, the photographer John Lucas, for Rankine’s book Citizen: An American Lyric (2014).. Note that Rankine refers to the Situation series as “video essays” on her website.But as she said in a 2009 interview at Poets.org, she thinks MOVING POEMS MAGAZINE Call for entries: 2021 Film and Video Poetry Symposium. March 8, 2021 Dave Bonta. The L.A.-based Film and Video Poetry Society’s 4th annual symposium is open for submissions from “Poets, Writers, filmmakers, animators, video and digital artists,

AMADO NERVO

Spanish director Eduardo Yagüe‘s stunning interpretation of a poem by the early 20th century Mexican poet Amado Nervo, for which I was pleased to be able to contribute the English translation.Pablo Barrangán and Gabriella Roy act. The music is by archiv ev noise.. Eduardo shared some notes on his process: This year it was my intention to challenge myself to make at least one

CHRISTY DUCKER

The winner for Best Animation at Rabbit Heart Poetry Festival 2017, where it was also a finalist for Best Overall Production. Filmmaker Kate Sweeney notes in her c.v. that the 2016 film is a “2.05 min hand-drawn animation. In collaboration with poet Christy Ducker and Centre for Chronic Diseases, York. Funded by Wellcome Trust.” SANDPIPER BY ELIZABETH BISHOP Filmmaker and television producer John Scott is working on a feature-length documentary called Elizabeth Bishop and the Art of Losing, which will include a number of videos like this one illustrating her poems.He wrote about the project at length for the Elizabeth Bishop Centenary blog.. Each scene will end on a poem whose inspiration comes from the tensions of the time period being

described.

ARTE POÉTICA BY VICENTE HUIDOBRO Arte poética. Que el verso sea como una llave. Que abra mil puertas. Una hoja cae; algo pasa volando; Cuanto miren los ojos creado sea, Y el alma del oyente quede temblando. Inventa mundos nuevos y cuida tu palabra; El adjetivo, cuando no da vida, mata. Estamos en el ciclo de

los nervios.

MOVING POEMS

Filmmaker Karen Dennison writes in a blog post,. As part of Abegail Morley’s series of posts on The Poetry Shed on the theme of Unlocking Creativity, I compiled a film as a prompt with a call out to poets to respond.Jill Munro wrote a fantastic poem in response and here is the resulting film poem.

LÉO FERRÉ

Latest from the magazine. Reconnections: free online screening of poetry films at Lyra Bristol Poetry Festival; Submissions open through May 31 for Weimar Poetry Film Award 2021

ROBERT FULLERTON

Working-class voices are all too rare in poetry, so I’m delighted to be able to share this profound and lyrical documentary by Callum Rice in which Glaswegian poet Robert Fullerton reflects on how his approach to writing was shaped by his experiences as a welder. It was featured three years ago in Aeon (which I clearly don’t read faithfully enough) in partnership with the Scottish HEARTBREAK BY EMMET KIRWAN An exemplary spoken-word poetry film directed by Dave Tynan, featuring actors Jordanne Jones and Deirdre Molloy as well as the poet himself, Emmet Kirwan.It was selected for Special Mention this past weekend by the jury of the Weimar Poetry Film Award, on which I was honored to serve along with animator Ebele Okoye and writer Stefan Petermann.

JULIO CORTÁZAR

This is from the first chapter of Cronopios and Famas, translated by Paul Backburn, “The Instruction Manual” — “an absurd assortment of tasks and items dissected in an instruction-manual format,” according to the publisher’s description on Amazon.. Sari Rachman is the actress, and also supplied the voiceover reading of the poem. Leonardo Cariglino did everything else. SCOTLAND | NATIONALITY | MOVING POEMS A Shetlandic filmpoem by poet, filmmaker and musician Roseanne Walt, one of a series of four filmpoems featuring masked beings and texts from Dr. Walt’s award-winning, bilingual collection Moder Dy (Mother Wave). Stoal // Raaga is. A series of filmpoems exploring themes of modern myth, memory and landscape.

ROSE AUSLÄNDER

A film interpretation of a Rose Auslander poem by the documentary filmmaker Lisa Seidenberg.I’ll be traveling to Europe soon myself, and this videopoem is

W. S. MERWIN

The two poems that comprise the closing section of Men Think They Are Better Than Grass, the Deborah Slater Dance Theatre production based on poems by W. S. Merwin. “To the Hand” is read by Ellen Sebastian Chang and “To a Coming Extinction” by Peter Coyote — SPAIN | NATIONALITY | MOVING POEMS Screens is a poem from Celia Parra‘s most recent book, Pantallas.The author speaks her own words and is also the film-maker. Original music, sound recording and final mix is by Alejandro Almau.. The video explores the effects on our perceptions of reality RISE BY KATHY JETNIL-KIJINER AND AKA NIVIANA Climate activists and poets, Kathy Jetnil-Kijiner and Aka Niviana, travel to the latter’s home of Greenland to recite their collaborative poem, Rise, on a melting glacier that might threaten the former’s home nation of the Marshall Islands in the Pacific.

MOVING POEMS

Filmmaker Karen Dennison writes in a blog post,. As part of Abegail Morley’s series of posts on The Poetry Shed on the theme of Unlocking Creativity, I compiled a film as a prompt with a call out to poets to respond.Jill Munro wrote a fantastic poem in response and here is the resulting film poem.

LÉO FERRÉ

Latest from the magazine. Reconnections: free online screening of poetry films at Lyra Bristol Poetry Festival; Submissions open through May 31 for Weimar Poetry Film Award 2021

ROBERT FULLERTON

Working-class voices are all too rare in poetry, so I’m delighted to be able to share this profound and lyrical documentary by Callum Rice in which Glaswegian poet Robert Fullerton reflects on how his approach to writing was shaped by his experiences as a welder. It was featured three years ago in Aeon (which I clearly don’t read faithfully enough) in partnership with the Scottish HEARTBREAK BY EMMET KIRWAN An exemplary spoken-word poetry film directed by Dave Tynan, featuring actors Jordanne Jones and Deirdre Molloy as well as the poet himself, Emmet Kirwan.It was selected for Special Mention this past weekend by the jury of the Weimar Poetry Film Award, on which I was honored to serve along with animator Ebele Okoye and writer Stefan Petermann.

JULIO CORTÁZAR

This is from the first chapter of Cronopios and Famas, translated by Paul Backburn, “The Instruction Manual” — “an absurd assortment of tasks and items dissected in an instruction-manual format,” according to the publisher’s description on Amazon.. Sari Rachman is the actress, and also supplied the voiceover reading of the poem. Leonardo Cariglino did everything else. SCOTLAND | NATIONALITY | MOVING POEMS A Shetlandic filmpoem by poet, filmmaker and musician Roseanne Walt, one of a series of four filmpoems featuring masked beings and texts from Dr. Walt’s award-winning, bilingual collection Moder Dy (Mother Wave). Stoal // Raaga is. A series of filmpoems exploring themes of modern myth, memory and landscape.

ROSE AUSLÄNDER

A film interpretation of a Rose Auslander poem by the documentary filmmaker Lisa Seidenberg.I’ll be traveling to Europe soon myself, and this videopoem is

W. S. MERWIN

The two poems that comprise the closing section of Men Think They Are Better Than Grass, the Deborah Slater Dance Theatre production based on poems by W. S. Merwin. “To the Hand” is read by Ellen Sebastian Chang and “To a Coming Extinction” by Peter Coyote — SPAIN | NATIONALITY | MOVING POEMS Screens is a poem from Celia Parra‘s most recent book, Pantallas.The author speaks her own words and is also the film-maker. Original music, sound recording and final mix is by Alejandro Almau.. The video explores the effects on our perceptions of reality RISE BY KATHY JETNIL-KIJINER AND AKA NIVIANA Climate activists and poets, Kathy Jetnil-Kijiner and Aka Niviana, travel to the latter’s home of Greenland to recite their collaborative poem, Rise, on a melting glacier that might threaten the former’s home nation of the Marshall Islands in the Pacific. ABOUT | MOVING POEMS “Film, I believe, lends itself particularly to the poetic statement, because it is essentially a montage and, therefore, seems by its very nature to be a poetic medium.” —Maya Deren Welcome to Moving Poems, an on-going anthology of the best poetry videos from around the

web. Subscribe by

THE WILD IRIS BY LOUISE GLÜCK This is Iris, a translation of Louise Glück‘s famous poem into sign language (I presume Dutch Sign Language) by the deaf Dutch poet Wim Emmerik.It was recorded in 2014, the year before Emmerik’s death, by Ellen Nauta, edited by Max Vonk, and uploaded to Vimeo by Onno Crasborn, a linguist specializing in sign language at Radbound Univeristy in the Netherlands. SCOTLAND | NATIONALITY | MOVING POEMS A Shetlandic filmpoem by poet, filmmaker and musician Roseanne Walt, one of a series of four filmpoems featuring masked beings and texts from Dr. Walt’s award-winning, bilingual collection Moder Dy (Mother Wave). Stoal // Raaga is. A series of filmpoems exploring themes of modern myth, memory and landscape. ADONIS | POET | MOVING POEMS I recently bought the award-winning translation of Adonis’ Selected Poems by Khaled Mattawa and have been enjoying it immensely. A little bit of searching turned up not only the above video, but 18 more such videos, all from a 2013 documentary about the Syrian-Lebanese poet from Oogland Film Productions, Land of Absence, directed by John Albert Jansen and supported in part by Poetry JOHN LUCAS | FILMMAKER | MOVING POEMS Published online at TriQuarterly a year ago, this is the most recent of the Situation videos produced by Claudia Rankine with her husband, documentary photographer John Lucas, and included in text form in her award-winning collection of prose poetry Citizen.

AMADO NERVO

Spanish director Eduardo Yagüe‘s stunning interpretation of a poem by the early 20th century Mexican poet Amado Nervo, for which I was pleased to be able to contribute the English translation.Pablo Barrangán and Gabriella Roy act. The music is by archiv ev noise.. Eduardo shared some notes on his process: This year it was my intention to challenge myself to make at least one KARAWANE BY HUGO BALL This may be the least poetic poetry video I’ve ever posted here, but I found it oddly compelling and hypnotic. It’s a translation of a Dadaist poem into binary code by Lucas Battich, who writes: ‘Karawane’ is a poem written and performed by Hugo Ball in 1916, and it consists of meaningless words and sounds. MOVING POEMS MAGAZINE The L.A.-based Film and Video Poetry Society’s 4th annual symposium is open for submissions from “Poets, Writers, filmmakers, animators, video and digital artists, media and performance artists.” SANDPIPER BY ELIZABETH BISHOP Filmmaker and television producer John Scott is working on a feature-length documentary called Elizabeth Bishop and the Art of Losing, which will include a number of videos like this one illustrating her poems.He wrote about the project at length for the Elizabeth Bishop Centenary blog.. Each scene will end on a poem whose inspiration comes from the tensions of the time period being

described.

ARTE POÉTICA BY VICENTE HUIDOBRO Arte poética . Que el verso sea como una llave Que abra mil puertas. Una hoja cae; algo pasa volando; Cuanto miren los ojos creado sea, Y el alma del oyente quede temblando.

MOVING POEMS

Filmmaker Karen Dennison writes in a blog post,. As part of Abegail Morley’s series of posts on The Poetry Shed on the theme of Unlocking Creativity, I compiled a film as a prompt with a call out to poets to respond.Jill Munro wrote a fantastic poem in response and here is the resulting film poem.

LÉO FERRÉ

When the low, heavy sky weighs like the giant lid. Of a great pot upon the spirit crushed by care, And from the whole horizon encircling us is shed. A day blacker than night, and thicker with despair; When Earth becomes a dungeon, where the timid bat. Called Confidence, against the damp and slippery walls. Goes beating his blind wings,

goes

ROBERT FULLERTON

Working-class voices are all too rare in poetry, so I’m delighted to be able to share this profound and lyrical documentary by Callum Rice in which Glaswegian poet Robert Fullerton reflects on how his approach to writing was shaped by his experiences as a welder. It was featured three years ago in Aeon (which I clearly don’t read faithfully enough) in partnership with the Scottish HEARTBREAK BY EMMET KIRWAN Heartbreak is a feminist poetry film for women and men. Courageous, angry, heartbreaking; an exclamation mark. A film the world must see. C’mere, C’mere, C’mere. The YouTube description notes that it was “commissioned and developed by THISISPOPBABY as part of RIOT, Winner of Best Production at Dublin Fringe Festival 2016.”. THE WILD IRIS BY LOUISE GLÜCK This is Iris, a translation of Louise Glück‘s famous poem into sign language (I presume Dutch Sign Language) by the deaf Dutch poet Wim Emmerik.It was recorded in 2014, the year before Emmerik’s death, by Ellen Nauta, edited by Max Vonk, and uploaded to Vimeo by Onno Crasborn, a linguist specializing in sign language at Radbound Univeristy in the Netherlands.

JULIO CORTÁZAR

This is from the first chapter of Cronopios and Famas, translated by Paul Backburn, “The Instruction Manual” — “an absurd assortment of tasks and items dissected in an instruction-manual format,” according to the publisher’s description on Amazon.. Sari Rachman is the actress, and also supplied the voiceover reading of the poem. Leonardo Cariglino did everything else. SPAIN | NATIONALITY | MOVING POEMS Screens is a poem from Celia Parra‘s most recent book, Pantallas.The author speaks her own words and is also the film-maker. Original music, sound recording and final mix is by Alejandro Almau.. The video explores the effects on our perceptions of reality

ROSE AUSLÄNDER

A film interpretation of a Rose Auslander poem by the documentary filmmaker Lisa Seidenberg. I’ll be traveling to Europe soon myself, and this videopoem is helping me psych myself up for it. Reading the English Wikipedia entry on Ausländer, I was struck by this factoid: In the spring of 1943 Ausländer met poet Paul Celan in the Cernauti

ghetto.

KARAWANE BY HUGO BALL Karawane by Hugo Ball. This opens in a new window. This may be the least poetic poetry video I’ve ever posted here, but I found it oddly compelling and hypnotic. It’s a translation of a Dadaist poem into binary code by Lucas Battich, who writes: ‘Karawane’ is a poem written and performed by Hugo Ball in 1916, and it consists of RISE BY KATHY JETNIL-KIJINER AND AKA NIVIANA 0:00 / 6:31. Live. •. Climate activists and poets, Kathy Jetnil-Kijiner and Aka Niviana, travel to the latter’s home of Greenland to recite their collaborative poem, Rise, on a melting glacier that might threaten the former’s home nation of the Marshall Islands in the Pacific.

MOVING POEMS

Filmmaker Karen Dennison writes in a blog post,. As part of Abegail Morley’s series of posts on The Poetry Shed on the theme of Unlocking Creativity, I compiled a film as a prompt with a call out to poets to respond.Jill Munro wrote a fantastic poem in response and here is the resulting film poem.

LÉO FERRÉ

When the low, heavy sky weighs like the giant lid. Of a great pot upon the spirit crushed by care, And from the whole horizon encircling us is shed. A day blacker than night, and thicker with despair; When Earth becomes a dungeon, where the timid bat. Called Confidence, against the damp and slippery walls. Goes beating his blind wings,

goes

ROBERT FULLERTON

Working-class voices are all too rare in poetry, so I’m delighted to be able to share this profound and lyrical documentary by Callum Rice in which Glaswegian poet Robert Fullerton reflects on how his approach to writing was shaped by his experiences as a welder. It was featured three years ago in Aeon (which I clearly don’t read faithfully enough) in partnership with the Scottish HEARTBREAK BY EMMET KIRWAN Heartbreak is a feminist poetry film for women and men. Courageous, angry, heartbreaking; an exclamation mark. A film the world must see. C’mere, C’mere, C’mere. The YouTube description notes that it was “commissioned and developed by THISISPOPBABY as part of RIOT, Winner of Best Production at Dublin Fringe Festival 2016.”. THE WILD IRIS BY LOUISE GLÜCK This is Iris, a translation of Louise Glück‘s famous poem into sign language (I presume Dutch Sign Language) by the deaf Dutch poet Wim Emmerik.It was recorded in 2014, the year before Emmerik’s death, by Ellen Nauta, edited by Max Vonk, and uploaded to Vimeo by Onno Crasborn, a linguist specializing in sign language at Radbound Univeristy in the Netherlands.

JULIO CORTÁZAR

This is from the first chapter of Cronopios and Famas, translated by Paul Backburn, “The Instruction Manual” — “an absurd assortment of tasks and items dissected in an instruction-manual format,” according to the publisher’s description on Amazon.. Sari Rachman is the actress, and also supplied the voiceover reading of the poem. Leonardo Cariglino did everything else. SPAIN | NATIONALITY | MOVING POEMS Screens is a poem from Celia Parra‘s most recent book, Pantallas.The author speaks her own words and is also the film-maker. Original music, sound recording and final mix is by Alejandro Almau.. The video explores the effects on our perceptions of reality

ROSE AUSLÄNDER

A film interpretation of a Rose Auslander poem by the documentary filmmaker Lisa Seidenberg. I’ll be traveling to Europe soon myself, and this videopoem is helping me psych myself up for it. Reading the English Wikipedia entry on Ausländer, I was struck by this factoid: In the spring of 1943 Ausländer met poet Paul Celan in the Cernauti

ghetto.

KARAWANE BY HUGO BALL Karawane by Hugo Ball. This opens in a new window. This may be the least poetic poetry video I’ve ever posted here, but I found it oddly compelling and hypnotic. It’s a translation of a Dadaist poem into binary code by Lucas Battich, who writes: ‘Karawane’ is a poem written and performed by Hugo Ball in 1916, and it consists of RISE BY KATHY JETNIL-KIJINER AND AKA NIVIANA 0:00 / 6:31. Live. •. Climate activists and poets, Kathy Jetnil-Kijiner and Aka Niviana, travel to the latter’s home of Greenland to recite their collaborative poem, Rise, on a melting glacier that might threaten the former’s home nation of the Marshall Islands in the Pacific. LOCKDOWN BY SIMON ARMITAGE Lockdown is a new song by LYR, featuring Florence Pugh and Pete Wareham of Melt Yourself Down. The song is set to a poem by poet laureate Simon Armitage, written in response to the coronavirus restrictions. ‘Lockdown’ moves from the outbreak of bubonic plague in Eyam, Derbyshire in the 17th century – when a bale of cloth sent

from London

SCOTLAND | NATIONALITY | MOVING POEMS A Shetlandic filmpoem by poet, filmmaker and musician Roseanne Walt, one of a series of four filmpoems featuring masked beings and texts from Dr. Walt’s award-winning, bilingual collection Moder Dy (Mother Wave). Stoal // Raaga is. A series of filmpoems exploring themes of modern myth, memory and landscape. THE WILD IRIS BY LOUISE GLÜCK This is Iris, a translation of Louise Glück‘s famous poem into sign language (I presume Dutch Sign Language) by the deaf Dutch poet Wim Emmerik.It was recorded in 2014, the year before Emmerik’s death, by Ellen Nauta, edited by Max Vonk, and uploaded to Vimeo by Onno Crasborn, a linguist specializing in sign language at Radbound Univeristy in the Netherlands. MOVING POEMS MAGAZINE Call for entries: 2021 Film and Video Poetry Symposium. March 8, 2021 Dave Bonta. The L.A.-based Film and Video Poetry Society’s 4th annual symposium is open for submissions from “Poets, Writers, filmmakers, animators, video and digital artists, JOHN LUCAS | FILMMAKER | MOVING POEMS One of a series of “Situation” videos created by Jamaican-American poet Claudia Rankine in collaboration with her husband, the photographer John Lucas, for Rankine’s book Citizen: An American Lyric (2014).. Note that Rankine refers to the Situation series as “video essays” on her website.But as she said in a 2009 interview at Poets.org, she thinks HONDURAS | NATIONALITY | MOVING POEMS A poem by the great prophetic poet of modernismo, Juan Ramón Molina, turned into a heavy metal song (minus a few verses) by the Honduran band Delirium, in homage to the poet on the centenary of his death. The song is also currently available on the band’s MySpace page.

METEMPSÍCOSIS.

AMADO NERVO

Spanish director Eduardo Yagüe‘s stunning interpretation of a poem by the early 20th century Mexican poet Amado Nervo, for which I was pleased to be able to contribute the English translation.Pablo Barrangán and Gabriella Roy act. The music is by archiv ev noise.. Eduardo shared some notes on his process: This year it was my intention to challenge myself to make at least one KARAWANE BY HUGO BALL Karawane by Hugo Ball. This opens in a new window. This may be the least poetic poetry video I’ve ever posted here, but I found it oddly compelling and hypnotic. It’s a translation of a Dadaist poem into binary code by Lucas Battich, who writes: ‘Karawane’ is a poem written and performed by Hugo Ball in 1916, and it consists of SANDPIPER BY ELIZABETH BISHOP Filmmaker and television producer John Scott is working on a feature-length documentary called Elizabeth Bishop and the Art of Losing, which will include a number of videos like this one illustrating her poems.He wrote about the project at length for the Elizabeth Bishop Centenary blog.. Each scene will end on a poem whose inspiration comes from the tensions of the time period being

described.

ARTE POÉTICA BY VICENTE HUIDOBRO Arte poética. Que el verso sea como una llave. Que abra mil puertas. Una hoja cae; algo pasa volando; Cuanto miren los ojos creado sea, Y el alma del oyente quede temblando. Inventa mundos nuevos y cuida tu palabra; El adjetivo, cuando no da vida, mata. Estamos en el ciclo de

los nervios.

MOVING POEMS

Filmmaker Karen Dennison writes in a blog post,. As part of Abegail Morley’s series of posts on The Poetry Shed on the theme of Unlocking Creativity, I compiled a film as a prompt with a call out to poets to respond.Jill Munro wrote a fantastic poem in response and here is the resulting film poem.

LÉO FERRÉ

When the low, heavy sky weighs like the giant lid. Of a great pot upon the spirit crushed by care, And from the whole horizon encircling us is shed. A day blacker than night, and thicker with despair; When Earth becomes a dungeon, where the timid bat. Called Confidence, against the damp and slippery walls. Goes beating his blind wings,

goes

ROBERT FULLERTON

Working-class voices are all too rare in poetry, so I’m delighted to be able to share this profound and lyrical documentary by Callum Rice in which Glaswegian poet Robert Fullerton reflects on how his approach to writing was shaped by his experiences as a welder. It was featured three years ago in Aeon (which I clearly don’t read faithfully enough) in partnership with the Scottish

JULIO CORTÁZAR

This is from the first chapter of Cronopios and Famas, translated by Paul Backburn, “The Instruction Manual” — “an absurd assortment of tasks and items dissected in an instruction-manual format,” according to the publisher’s description on Amazon.. Sari Rachman is the actress, and also supplied the voiceover reading of the poem. Leonardo Cariglino did everything else.

KERRY DARBISHIRE

0:00. 0:00. 0:00 / 2:29. Live. •. A filmpoem by Karen Dennison, who also supplied the voiceover. The text was written by Jemma Borg, Annie Butler, Kerry Darbishire, Catherine Fletcher, Bashabi Fraser, Carl Griffin, Philip Gross, Chrys Salt, and Alina Stefanescu. Here’s the YouTube description: Arrival at Elsewhere is a book length long poem HEARTBREAK BY EMMET KIRWAN Heartbreak is a feminist poetry film for women and men. Courageous, angry, heartbreaking; an exclamation mark. A film the world must see. C’mere, C’mere, C’mere. The YouTube description notes that it was “commissioned and developed by THISISPOPBABY as part of RIOT, Winner of Best Production at Dublin Fringe Festival 2016.”.

ROSE AUSLÄNDER

A film interpretation of a Rose Auslander poem by the documentary filmmaker Lisa Seidenberg. I’ll be traveling to Europe soon myself, and this videopoem is helping me psych myself up for it. Reading the English Wikipedia entry on Ausländer, I was struck by this factoid: In the spring of 1943 Ausländer met poet Paul Celan in the Cernauti

ghetto.

I SHAKE OUT MY COAT BY MICHAEL SYMMONS ROBERTS This is Filmpoem 39, by the core team at Filmpoem: directed by Alastair Cook with cinematography by James William Norton and sound composed by Luca Nasciuti.The text, by Michael Symmons Roberts, was one of four new poems by British poets on the theme of migration commissioned for Filmpoem Festival 2014.. The video is also presented on the Filmpoem website, an increasingly SANDPIPER BY ELIZABETH BISHOP Filmmaker and television producer John Scott is working on a feature-length documentary called Elizabeth Bishop and the Art of Losing, which will include a number of videos like this one illustrating her poems.He wrote about the project at length for the Elizabeth Bishop Centenary blog.. Each scene will end on a poem whose inspiration comes from the tensions of the time period being

described.

RISE BY KATHY JETNIL-KIJINER AND AKA NIVIANA 0:00 / 6:31. Live. •. Climate activists and poets, Kathy Jetnil-Kijiner and Aka Niviana, travel to the latter’s home of Greenland to recite their collaborative poem, Rise, on a melting glacier that might threaten the former’s home nation of the Marshall Islands in the Pacific.

MOVING POEMS

Filmmaker Karen Dennison writes in a blog post,. As part of Abegail Morley’s series of posts on The Poetry Shed on the theme of Unlocking Creativity, I compiled a film as a prompt with a call out to poets to respond.Jill Munro wrote a fantastic poem in response and here is the resulting film poem.

LÉO FERRÉ

When the low, heavy sky weighs like the giant lid. Of a great pot upon the spirit crushed by care, And from the whole horizon encircling us is shed. A day blacker than night, and thicker with despair; When Earth becomes a dungeon, where the timid bat. Called Confidence, against the damp and slippery walls. Goes beating his blind wings,

goes

ROBERT FULLERTON

Working-class voices are all too rare in poetry, so I’m delighted to be able to share this profound and lyrical documentary by Callum Rice in which Glaswegian poet Robert Fullerton reflects on how his approach to writing was shaped by his experiences as a welder. It was featured three years ago in Aeon (which I clearly don’t read faithfully enough) in partnership with the Scottish

JULIO CORTÁZAR

This is from the first chapter of Cronopios and Famas, translated by Paul Backburn, “The Instruction Manual” — “an absurd assortment of tasks and items dissected in an instruction-manual format,” according to the publisher’s description on Amazon.. Sari Rachman is the actress, and also supplied the voiceover reading of the poem. Leonardo Cariglino did everything else.

KERRY DARBISHIRE

0:00. 0:00. 0:00 / 2:29. Live. •. A filmpoem by Karen Dennison, who also supplied the voiceover. The text was written by Jemma Borg, Annie Butler, Kerry Darbishire, Catherine Fletcher, Bashabi Fraser, Carl Griffin, Philip Gross, Chrys Salt, and Alina Stefanescu. Here’s the YouTube description: Arrival at Elsewhere is a book length long poem HEARTBREAK BY EMMET KIRWAN Heartbreak is a feminist poetry film for women and men. Courageous, angry, heartbreaking; an exclamation mark. A film the world must see. C’mere, C’mere, C’mere. The YouTube description notes that it was “commissioned and developed by THISISPOPBABY as part of RIOT, Winner of Best Production at Dublin Fringe Festival 2016.”.

ROSE AUSLÄNDER

A film interpretation of a Rose Auslander poem by the documentary filmmaker Lisa Seidenberg. I’ll be traveling to Europe soon myself, and this videopoem is helping me psych myself up for it. Reading the English Wikipedia entry on Ausländer, I was struck by this factoid: In the spring of 1943 Ausländer met poet Paul Celan in the Cernauti

ghetto.

I SHAKE OUT MY COAT BY MICHAEL SYMMONS ROBERTS This is Filmpoem 39, by the core team at Filmpoem: directed by Alastair Cook with cinematography by James William Norton and sound composed by Luca Nasciuti.The text, by Michael Symmons Roberts, was one of four new poems by British poets on the theme of migration commissioned for Filmpoem Festival 2014.. The video is also presented on the Filmpoem website, an increasingly SANDPIPER BY ELIZABETH BISHOP Filmmaker and television producer John Scott is working on a feature-length documentary called Elizabeth Bishop and the Art of Losing, which will include a number of videos like this one illustrating her poems.He wrote about the project at length for the Elizabeth Bishop Centenary blog.. Each scene will end on a poem whose inspiration comes from the tensions of the time period being

described.

RISE BY KATHY JETNIL-KIJINER AND AKA NIVIANA 0:00 / 6:31. Live. •. Climate activists and poets, Kathy Jetnil-Kijiner and Aka Niviana, travel to the latter’s home of Greenland to recite their collaborative poem, Rise, on a melting glacier that might threaten the former’s home nation of the Marshall Islands in the Pacific.

MOVING POEMS

An excerpt from a unique collaboration between poet-filmmakers Martin Heslop and Helen Tookey, celebrating and evoking the spirits of place — or as they put it, “deciphering the landscape, coaxing it back into language.”. In September 2019, writer and composer Martin Heslop and poet Helen Tookey spent a two-week residency in Great Village, Nova Scotia, in the house where Elizabeth Bishop

KATE SWEENEY

This new poetry film by UK filmmaker Kate Sweeney, based on a poem by Sean O’Brien, was commissioned by the 2016 Newcastle Poetry Festival.The Vimeo description reads: In response to extracts from Sean O’ Brien’s same-titled poem, ‘Hammersmith’ is an elegiac, hand-drawn animation sweeping through 1950’s London. drawn from the iconic cinematography from Jules Dessin’s 1950 JOHN LUCAS | FILMMAKER | MOVING POEMS One of a series of “Situation” videos created by Jamaican-American poet Claudia Rankine in collaboration with her husband, the photographer John Lucas, for Rankine’s book Citizen: An American Lyric (2014).. Note that Rankine refers to the Situation series as “video essays” on her website.But as she said in a 2009 interview at Poets.org, she thinks SANDPIPER BY ELIZABETH BISHOP Filmmaker and television producer John Scott is working on a feature-length documentary called Elizabeth Bishop and the Art of Losing, which will include a number of videos like this one illustrating her poems.He wrote about the project at length for the Elizabeth Bishop Centenary blog.. Each scene will end on a poem whose inspiration comes from the tensions of the time period being

described.

HOTEL BY GUILLAUME APOLLINAIRE The filmmaker is Ahmet Tigli, about whom I was able to discover nothing in English. I’m not sure who authored the translation, but here’s the original: Hôtel Ma chambre a la forme d’une cage, Le soleil passe son bras par la fenêtre. Mais moi qui veux fumer pour faire des mirages J’allume au feu du SPAIN | NATIONALITY | MOVING POEMS Screens is a poem from Celia Parra‘s most recent book, Pantallas.The author speaks her own words and is also the film-maker. Original music, sound recording and final mix is by Alejandro Almau.. The video explores the effects on our perceptions of reality ADONIS | POET | MOVING POEMS The Paris based Syrian-Lebanese poet Ali Ahmed Esber (1930), better known under his pen name Adonis, is sometimes called ‘the living legend of Arab literature’. For seventy years he has been writing poetry in which Arab identity is a central theme. His unique voice and independent mind has secured him a central role in the complex and

multi

KARAWANE BY HUGO BALL Karawane by Hugo Ball. This opens in a new window. This may be the least poetic poetry video I’ve ever posted here, but I found it oddly compelling and hypnotic. It’s a translation of a Dadaist poem into binary code by Lucas Battich, who writes: ‘Karawane’ is a poem written and performed by Hugo Ball in 1916, and it consists of

EDUARDO GALEANO

Poet: Eduardo Galeano. This opens in a new window. Spanish director and designer Carlos Salgado made this film for the NGO Africa Directo, evidence of the nearly universal appeal of Eduardo Galeano ‘s writing. (Judging at least from my Facebook feed, Galeano’s death on April 13 occasioned much more widespread mourning than the death the ARTE POÉTICA BY VICENTE HUIDOBRO Arte poética. Que el verso sea como una llave. Que abra mil puertas. Una hoja cae; algo pasa volando; Cuanto miren los ojos creado sea, Y el alma del oyente quede temblando. Inventa mundos nuevos y cuida tu palabra; El adjetivo, cuando no da vida, mata. Estamos en el ciclo de

los nervios.

MOVING POEMS

Filmmaker Karen Dennison writes in a blog post,. As part of Abegail Morley’s series of posts on The Poetry Shed on the theme of Unlocking Creativity, I compiled a film as a prompt with a call out to poets to respond.Jill Munro wrote a fantastic poem in response and here is the resulting film poem.

LÉO FERRÉ

Latest from the magazine. Reconnections: free online screening of poetry films at Lyra Bristol Poetry Festival; Submissions open through May 31 for Weimar Poetry Film Award 2021

ROBERT FULLERTON

Working-class voices are all too rare in poetry, so I’m delighted to be able to share this profound and lyrical documentary by Callum Rice in which Glaswegian poet Robert Fullerton reflects on how his approach to writing was shaped by his experiences as a welder. It was featured three years ago in Aeon (which I clearly don’t read faithfully enough) in partnership with the Scottish

JULIO CORTÁZAR

This is from the first chapter of Cronopios and Famas, translated by Paul Backburn, “The Instruction Manual” — “an absurd assortment of tasks and items dissected in an instruction-manual format,” according to the publisher’s description on Amazon.. Sari Rachman is the actress, and also supplied the voiceover reading of the poem. Leonardo Cariglino did everything else. HEARTBREAK BY EMMET KIRWAN An exemplary spoken-word poetry film directed by Dave Tynan, featuring actors Jordanne Jones and Deirdre Molloy as well as the poet himself, Emmet Kirwan.It was selected for Special Mention this past weekend by the jury of the Weimar Poetry Film Award, on which I was honored to serve along with animator Ebele Okoye and writer Stefan Petermann.

ROSE AUSLÄNDER

A film interpretation of a Rose Auslander poem by the documentary filmmaker Lisa Seidenberg.I’ll be traveling to Europe soon myself, and this videopoem is

KERRY DARBISHIRE

A filmpoem by Karen Dennison, who also supplied the voiceover.The text was written by Jemma Borg, Annie Butler, Kerry Darbishire, Catherine Fletcher, Bashabi Fraser, Carl Griffin, Philip Gross, Chrys Salt, and

Alina Stefanescu.

I SHAKE OUT MY COAT BY MICHAEL SYMMONS ROBERTS This is Filmpoem 39, by the core team at Filmpoem: directed by Alastair Cook with cinematography by James William Norton and sound composed by Luca Nasciuti.The text, by Michael Symmons Roberts, was one of four new poems by British poets on the theme of migration commissioned for Filmpoem Festival 2014.. The video is also presented on the Filmpoem website, an increasingly SANDPIPER BY ELIZABETH BISHOP Filmmaker and television producer John Scott is working on a feature-length documentary called Elizabeth Bishop and the Art of Losing, which will include a number of videos like this one illustrating her poems.He wrote about the project at length for the Elizabeth Bishop Centenary blog.. Each scene will end on a poem whose inspiration comes from the tensions of the time period being

described.

RISE BY KATHY JETNIL-KIJINER AND AKA NIVIANA Climate activists and poets, Kathy Jetnil-Kijiner and Aka Niviana, travel to the latter’s home of Greenland to recite their collaborative poem, Rise, on a melting glacier that might threaten the former’s home nation of the Marshall Islands in the Pacific.

MOVING POEMS

Filmmaker Karen Dennison writes in a blog post,. As part of Abegail Morley’s series of posts on The Poetry Shed on the theme of Unlocking Creativity, I compiled a film as a prompt with a call out to poets to respond.Jill Munro wrote a fantastic poem in response and here is the resulting film poem.

LÉO FERRÉ

Latest from the magazine. Reconnections: free online screening of poetry films at Lyra Bristol Poetry Festival; Submissions open through May 31 for Weimar Poetry Film Award 2021

ROBERT FULLERTON

Working-class voices are all too rare in poetry, so I’m delighted to be able to share this profound and lyrical documentary by Callum Rice in which Glaswegian poet Robert Fullerton reflects on how his approach to writing was shaped by his experiences as a welder. It was featured three years ago in Aeon (which I clearly don’t read faithfully enough) in partnership with the Scottish

JULIO CORTÁZAR

This is from the first chapter of Cronopios and Famas, translated by Paul Backburn, “The Instruction Manual” — “an absurd assortment of tasks and items dissected in an instruction-manual format,” according to the publisher’s description on Amazon.. Sari Rachman is the actress, and also supplied the voiceover reading of the poem. Leonardo Cariglino did everything else. HEARTBREAK BY EMMET KIRWAN An exemplary spoken-word poetry film directed by Dave Tynan, featuring actors Jordanne Jones and Deirdre Molloy as well as the poet himself, Emmet Kirwan.It was selected for Special Mention this past weekend by the jury of the Weimar Poetry Film Award, on which I was honored to serve along with animator Ebele Okoye and writer Stefan Petermann.

ROSE AUSLÄNDER

A film interpretation of a Rose Auslander poem by the documentary filmmaker Lisa Seidenberg.I’ll be traveling to Europe soon myself, and this videopoem is

KERRY DARBISHIRE

A filmpoem by Karen Dennison, who also supplied the voiceover.The text was written by Jemma Borg, Annie Butler, Kerry Darbishire, Catherine Fletcher, Bashabi Fraser, Carl Griffin, Philip Gross, Chrys Salt, and

Alina Stefanescu.

I SHAKE OUT MY COAT BY MICHAEL SYMMONS ROBERTS This is Filmpoem 39, by the core team at Filmpoem: directed by Alastair Cook with cinematography by James William Norton and sound composed by Luca Nasciuti.The text, by Michael Symmons Roberts, was one of four new poems by British poets on the theme of migration commissioned for Filmpoem Festival 2014.. The video is also presented on the Filmpoem website, an increasingly SANDPIPER BY ELIZABETH BISHOP Filmmaker and television producer John Scott is working on a feature-length documentary called Elizabeth Bishop and the Art of Losing, which will include a number of videos like this one illustrating her poems.He wrote about the project at length for the Elizabeth Bishop Centenary blog.. Each scene will end on a poem whose inspiration comes from the tensions of the time period being

described.

RISE BY KATHY JETNIL-KIJINER AND AKA NIVIANA Climate activists and poets, Kathy Jetnil-Kijiner and Aka Niviana, travel to the latter’s home of Greenland to recite their collaborative poem, Rise, on a melting glacier that might threaten the former’s home nation of the Marshall Islands in the Pacific.

MOVING POEMS

An excerpt from a unique collaboration between poet-filmmakers Martin Heslop and Helen Tookey, celebrating and evoking the spirits of place — or as they put it, “deciphering the landscape, coaxing it back into language.”. In September 2019, writer and composer Martin Heslop and poet Helen Tookey spent a two-week residency in Great Village, Nova Scotia, in the house where Elizabeth Bishop

KERRY DARBISHIRE

A filmpoem by Karen Dennison, who also supplied the voiceover.The text was written by Jemma Borg, Annie Butler, Kerry Darbishire, Catherine Fletcher, Bashabi Fraser, Carl Griffin, Philip Gross, Chrys Salt, and

Alina Stefanescu.

KATE SWEENEY

This new poetry film by UK filmmaker Kate Sweeney, based on a poem by Sean O’Brien, was commissioned by the 2016 Newcastle Poetry Festival.The Vimeo description reads: In response to extracts from Sean O’ Brien’s same-titled poem, ‘Hammersmith’ is an elegiac, hand-drawn animation sweeping through 1950’s London. drawn from the iconic cinematography from Jules Dessin’s 1950 ADONIS | POET | MOVING POEMS I recently bought the award-winning translation of Adonis’ Selected Poems by Khaled Mattawa and have been enjoying it immensely. A little bit of searching turned up not only the above video, but 18 more such videos, all from a 2013 documentary about the Syrian-Lebanese poet from Oogland Film Productions, Land of Absence, directed by John Albert Jansen and supported in part by Poetry HOTEL BY GUILLAUME APOLLINAIRE The filmmaker is Ahmet Tigli, about whom I was able to discover nothing in English. I’m not sure who authored the translation, but here’s the original: Hôtel Ma chambre a la forme d’une cage, Le soleil passe son bras par la fenêtre. Mais moi qui veux fumer pour faire des mirages J’allume au feu du JOHN LUCAS | FILMMAKER | MOVING POEMS Published online at TriQuarterly a year ago, this is the most recent of the Situation videos produced by Claudia Rankine with her husband, documentary photographer John Lucas, and included in text form in her award-winning collection of prose poetry Citizen. SPAIN | NATIONALITY | MOVING POEMS Screens is a poem from Celia Parra‘s most recent book, Pantallas.The author speaks her own words and is also the film-maker. Original music, sound recording and final mix is by Alejandro Almau.. The video explores the effects on our perceptions of reality

EDUARDO GALEANO

Spanish director and designer Carlos Salgado made this film for the NGO Africa Directo, evidence of the nearly universal appeal of Eduardo Galeano‘s writing. (Judging at least from my Facebook feed, Galeano’s death on April 13 occasioned much more widespread mourning than the death the same day of the Nobel prizewinner Günter

Grass.)Los Nadies

KARAWANE BY HUGO BALL This may be the least poetic poetry video I’ve ever posted here, but I found it oddly compelling and hypnotic. It’s a translation of a Dadaist poem into binary code by Lucas Battich, who writes: ‘Karawane’ is a poem written and performed by Hugo Ball in 1916, and it consists of meaningless words and sounds. ARTE POÉTICA BY VICENTE HUIDOBRO Arte poética . Que el verso sea como una llave Que abra mil puertas. Una hoja cae; algo pasa volando; Cuanto miren los ojos creado sea, Y el alma del oyente quede temblando.

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ESCRIBIMOS/WE WRITE BY JUAN BULLÓN ET. AL. 11 April, 2021 by Dave Bonta -

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Poet: Carmen Galeto ,

Carmen R. Hiraldo ,

Juan Bullón , Manuel Rodríguez de los Santos

, Pedro

García Ordiales

| Nationality: Spain | Filmmaker: Juan Bullón An exemplary anthology videopoem from Seville-based poetry filmmaker Juan Bullón’s creative writing

workshop . Be sure

to click the CC (closed captioning) icon if you need the English translation (which is very good). As Juan told me in an email last

November:

> This year, with some of the students from my Creative Writing > workshop, we decided to create a single piece, and although the > stories that each one recites are more or less different, I think it > can be seen as a single work made up of a few very personal poems > and stories. Besides, all the authors are in the video, we all act. > Another bet we made was to use as few verses or words as possible of > what each one had written on the image, trying not to be so graphic > so that the image and text could walk in parallel instead of

> chained.

The poems and authors in order: DICEN/THEY SAY by Juan Bullón; ESFINGE NEGRA/BLACK SPHINX by Carmen R. Hiraldo; DE CÓMO UN GRAMÁTICO APENADO SE QUEJA DESATENTO/HOW A SAD GRAMMARIAN COMPLAINS DISTRACTED (COOL) by Carmen Galeto; MAULLIDOS Y ESPANTOS/MEOWS AND HORRORS by Manuel Rodríguez de los Santos; SABER/KNOWING by Pedro García Ordiales; and ÚLTIMO DESPACHO/LAST DISPATCH by Juan Bullón. To read the original texts, go here

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and for the translations, go here

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SCRATCHING AT THE SURFACE OF TEARS BY JILL MUNRO 11 April, 2021 by Dave Bonta -

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Poet: Jill Munro |

Nationality: U.K. | Filmmaker: Karen Dennison Filmmaker Karen Dennison writes in a blog post

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> As part of Abegail Morley’s series of posts on The Poetry Shed on > the theme of Unlocking Creativity, I compiled a film as a prompt > with a call out to poets to respond

> .

> Jill Munro wrote a fantastic poem in response and here is the > resulting film poem.

Click through

for the text of the poem and a short biog of Munro.

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YOU STILL HAVE SOMETHING OF THE GHOST ABOUT YOU BY JINJIN XU 8 March, 2021 by Dave Bonta -

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Poet: JinJin Xu |

Nationality: China | Filmmaker: JinJin Xu For International Women’s Day, here’s a cento videopoem by JinJin Xu 徐今今, a poet and filmmaker from Shanghai. Here’s the Vimeo description: > The cento-film “You Still Have Something of the Ghost About You” > was shot in the hauntingly empty casinos during the COVID-19 > pandemic in Macau, China after I left mandatory government > quarantine and realized I’d stumbled into the underworld. The > polyvocal collage slips the viewer into an otherworldly, post-COVID > globalized hypnosis: interweaving strangely prescient texts from > Chinese and Western epics such as _Dream of the Red Chamber_, > _Journey to the West_, _Beastiary_, Dante’s _Inferno_, and > contemporary texts such as John Cage’s _X_, and Gu Cheng’s > _Ying’er_, to journey into the afterlife of forgetfulness. As a former comparative literature major, I love this blend! And I’m always excited to see up-and-coming poets integrating filmmaking into their practice. Xu’s bio notes that after getting her BA at Amherst College, she “traveled for a year as a Thomas J. Watson Fellow recording docu-poems with women dislocated across nine countries.” She’s currently in the MFA program at NYU, and her chapbook _There Is Still Singing in the Afterlife_ just came out in November, after winning the inaugural Own Voices Chapbook Prize from Radix Media. Be sure to follow her on Vimeo

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ARRIVAL AT ELSEWHERE (EXTRACT) BY KAREN DENNISON, CARL GRIFFIN ET.

AL.

7 March, 2021 by Dave Bonta -

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Poet: Alina Stefanescu

, Annie Butler

, Bashabi Fraser

, Carl Griffin

, Catherine Fletcher

, Chrys Salt

, Jemma Borg

, Kerry Darbishire

, Philip Gross

| Nationality: U.K.

| Filmmaker: Karen Dennison A filmpoem by Karen Dennison , who also supplied the voiceover. The text was written by Jemma Borg, Annie Butler, Kerry Darbishire, Catherine Fletcher, Bashabi Fraser, Carl Griffin, Philip Gross, Chrys Salt, and Alina Stefanescu. Here’s the YouTube description: > _Arrival at Elsewhere_ is a book length long poem response to the > pandemic, curated by one poet, Carl Griffin, but written by 97. This > is an extract from the book. It’s published by Against the Grain > poetry press and available to buy at > https://againstthegrainpoetrypress.wordpress.com/arrival-at-elsewhere/ From the description at that link: > Poets from across the world speak in one voice in response to > 2020’s life-changing pandemic. Not a definitive voice, nor an > authoritative one. But a contrasting, contradicting, confused voice, > set both in the UK and everywhere else, represented by one narrator > who, just like the rest of us, is made up of a hundred different > people. A narrator cohesive only in his/her/their contemplation of

> Elsewhere.

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Against the Grain Poetry Press WE HAVE BECOME CHILDREN BY AL REMPEL 5 January, 2021 by Dave Bonta

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Poet: Al Rempel |

Nationality: Canada | Filmmaker: Erica Goss > so we too open our lips > to mouth our prayers > like water over stones This recent videopoem by Erica Goss incorporates a text by Canadian poet Al Rempel , voiced by Annelyse Gelman, herself a

videopoet . As

Erica’s Vimeo description notes, “This is the second collaboration between poet Al Rempel and me. I used some of my photographs from years ago and video I took last summer.” Their first collaboration came out last spring: _I’ve in the Rain

_. This

new one has a certain New Year’s flavor to it, I thought — a good way to kick off 2021 at Moving Poems.

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TO THE END OF THINGS, PART 5: MOUNTAINS BY MARTIN HESLOP AND HELEN

TOOKEY

20 November, 2020 by Dave Bonta

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- Posted in Author-made videopoems Poet: Helen Tookey ,

Martin Heslop |

Nationality: U.K. | Filmmaker: Helen Tookey

, Martin Heslop

An excerpt from a unique collaboration between poet-filmmakers Martin Heslop

and Helen Tookey

, celebrating and evoking the spirits of place — or as they put it

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“deciphering the landscape, coaxing it back into language.” > In September 2019, writer and composer Martin Heslop and poet Helen > Tookey spent a two-week residency in Great Village, Nova Scotia, in > the house where Elizabeth Bishop lived as a child. They wrote poems > and prose pieces, fragments, notes. And they collected field > recordings and sounds: waterfalls, rivers, cave-drips; crickets > under pylons, in blueberry fields, by the shafts of old mines; the > creaking and cracking of a wooden church during a hurricane; the > harmonium and all the bells in the house; the turning mechanism of a > lighthouse beam, abandoned radio-sets. They were recording the > present and searching for possible futures, but also looking to > summon the buried histories of the place.

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> Back home they made films, visiting and revisiting the Durham and > Northumberland coast, Parys Mountain on Anglesey, South Gare on > Teesside – places similarly scarred by the presence and now the > loss of industry. Over the past year, they have been weaving these > sounds into the films, creating new conversations, across the

> Atlantic Ocean.

>

> Using sound and film, their poems and their voices, entwined with > early recordings of Nova Scotian Gaelic songs gathered from the > archives of the Beaton Institute at Cape Breton University, Helen > and Martin are creating a series of audio-visual poems – a > narrative sequence – weaving together the experiences of a woman > trying to navigate an uncertain and unfamiliar landscape, and the > voice of a man who is of this place, but of a different time. This > man is the draegerman of the mines, the rescuer, and he tells of the > underground world he remembers, recalls voices of those he rescued > and those he could not. They are both deciphering the landscape, > coaxing it back into language.

>

> Parts one to five were released in November 2020, with the second > half of the story to follow in the New Year. Watch all five November releases

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WELCOME TO THE EDGE OF YOUR SEAT BY JANET LEES 19 November, 2020 by Dave Bonta

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Poet: Janet Lees |

Nationality: Isle of Man

| Filmmaker: Janet

Lees

> For David Ballantyne > Photography & animation by Janet Lees

>

> Music by Henyao Simple but brilliant. Reminds me of the minimalism that drew me to Janet’s filmpoems from the very beginning. The contrast between the music and the text really adds to the unsettling quality of the piece.

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