Video Poetry Archives and Anthologies
BBC Poetry on Display
“A showcase of visual poetry” -- animations, poem-movies, some interactive & some just to watch unfolding on your screen.
“A showcase of visual poetry” -- animations, poem-movies, some interactive & some just to watch unfolding on your screen.
Best Minds Poetry Series
This is a great collection of live poetry: performance videos from poets “dedicated to unobscurate intensely vivid subject manufactured compassionate language,” brought to the Net by the Museum of American Poetics. Ginsberg, Snyder, Kerouac & Rexroth in the Beat Generation archive, Creeley, Sander, Waldman & more among the PostBeat Era videos.
This is a great collection of live poetry: performance videos from poets “dedicated to unobscurate intensely vivid subject manufactured compassionate language,” brought to the Net by the Museum of American Poetics. Ginsberg, Snyder, Kerouac & Rexroth in the Beat Generation archive, Creeley, Sander, Waldman & more among the PostBeat Era videos.
Blue’s Cruzio Cafe
Beau Blue’s got a new wrinkle in poetry video -- his collection features animated avatars of the poets, sometimes paired with the text of the poem, always matched with the poet’s recorded voice. The clips include well-known and not-so-well-known poets from all over: Robert Bly, Kim Addonizio, Robinson Jeffers, Kenneth Patchen, Jack Foley, Jake Berry, Blue himself, and lots more.
Beau Blue’s got a new wrinkle in poetry video -- his collection features animated avatars of the poets, sometimes paired with the text of the poem, always matched with the poet’s recorded voice. The clips include well-known and not-so-well-known poets from all over: Robert Bly, Kim Addonizio, Robinson Jeffers, Kenneth Patchen, Jack Foley, Jake Berry, Blue himself, and lots more.
Camera Poetica (Poetry International Rotterdam)
Poetry International Rotterdam is a truly international festival. On its Camera Poetica, you can see a great collection of short poetry films featuring poets from all over the world: Jaap Blonk, Robert Pinsky, Lidija Dimkovska, Che Qianzi, Sirkka Turkka....
Poetry International Rotterdam is a truly international festival. On its Camera Poetica, you can see a great collection of short poetry films featuring poets from all over the world: Jaap Blonk, Robert Pinsky, Lidija Dimkovska, Che Qianzi, Sirkka Turkka....
e-poets Videotheque
Kurt Heintz' multimedia poetic nexus at e-poets.net grows ever richer with the addition of the Videotheque archive of streaming poetry videos. Pack up your Realplayer & take yourself to the movies now -- this is a great collection: Patricia Smith in “Chinese Cucumbers,” Quraysh Ali Lansana in “Passage,” Kent Foreman at the Woodlawn Tap & lots more.
Kurt Heintz' multimedia poetic nexus at e-poets.net grows ever richer with the addition of the Videotheque archive of streaming poetry videos. Pack up your Realplayer & take yourself to the movies now -- this is a great collection: Patricia Smith in “Chinese Cucumbers,” Quraysh Ali Lansana in “Passage,” Kent Foreman at the Woodlawn Tap & lots more.
The Favorite Poem Project
The Favorite Poem site is filled with poetry movies, streaming videos of each favorite poem introduced & read by the person who chose it, from an Atlanta Little Leaguer (“Casey at the Bat” by Ernest Thayer) to a San Jose anesthesiologist (“The Way of the Water Hyacinth” by Zawgee) to President Clinton (“Concord Hymn” by Ralph Waldo Emerson).
The Favorite Poem site is filled with poetry movies, streaming videos of each favorite poem introduced & read by the person who chose it, from an Atlanta Little Leaguer (“Casey at the Bat” by Ernest Thayer) to a San Jose anesthesiologist (“The Way of the Water Hyacinth” by Zawgee) to President Clinton (“Concord Hymn” by Ralph Waldo Emerson).
Fooling With Words
Bill Moyers returned to PBS in September 1999 with a new po-documentary from the Dodge Poetry Festival. The site has a nice selection of video clips from the film.
Bill Moyers returned to PBS in September 1999 with a new po-documentary from the Dodge Poetry Festival. The site has a nice selection of video clips from the film.
komninos’s cyberpoetry
“cyberpoetry, poetry that cannot be published in the traditional print media, poetry that moves in time and space, poetry that requires new ways of reading, poetry that allows interaction, poetry that is moving digital, aural, visual, and animated....”
“cyberpoetry, poetry that cannot be published in the traditional print media, poetry that moves in time and space, poetry that requires new ways of reading, poetry that allows interaction, poetry that is moving digital, aural, visual, and animated....”
Literature and Life
This PBS series based on the Givens Collection of African-American Literature has archived lots of video in its Web incarnation. Chapter 4, “Say It Loud: Black Arts Movement,” for instance, includes RealVideo readings by Gwendolyn Brooks, Amiri Baraka & Nikki Giovanni.
This PBS series based on the Givens Collection of African-American Literature has archived lots of video in its Web incarnation. Chapter 4, “Say It Loud: Black Arts Movement,” for instance, includes RealVideo readings by Gwendolyn Brooks, Amiri Baraka & Nikki Giovanni.
Livepoets.com
Gabrielle Bouliane’s Livepoets.com site has a collection of the best spoken word poets from around the country, video and audio files galore.
Gabrielle Bouliane’s Livepoets.com site has a collection of the best spoken word poets from around the country, video and audio files galore.
Poems That Go
Megan Sapnar & Ingrid Ankerson’s beautiful site was “created to unite words, design, sound and motion and to celebrate poetry through technology and the Internet.” It succeeds most wonderfully, with a large archive of Webvideo poems, links to their inspirations and a large collection of links to essays on new media poetry.
Megan Sapnar & Ingrid Ankerson’s beautiful site was “created to unite words, design, sound and motion and to celebrate poetry through technology and the Internet.” It succeeds most wonderfully, with a large archive of Webvideo poems, links to their inspirations and a large collection of links to essays on new media poetry.
Poetry Everywhere
For National Poetry Month 2008, the Poetry Foundation sponsored this series of “short poetry films featuring poets reading their own work, animated interpretations of much-loved poems, and celebrities reading personal favorites, produced by WGBH and David Grubin Productions, and student filmmakers at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee’s docUWM media center.” Great stuff — all streamed online.
For National Poetry Month 2008, the Poetry Foundation sponsored this series of “short poetry films featuring poets reading their own work, animated interpretations of much-loved poems, and celebrities reading personal favorites, produced by WGBH and David Grubin Productions, and student filmmakers at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee’s docUWM media center.” Great stuff — all streamed online.
Poetry.LA
Wayne Lindberg and Hilda Weiss have been videotaping poets at venues in the greater Los Angeles area since February 2007, and have put more than 100 Southern California poets up on the Web in this video showcase. Each link on the site takes you directly to a YouTube video of a reading or interview, and they are continuing to add new videos every month.
Wayne Lindberg and Hilda Weiss have been videotaping poets at venues in the greater Los Angeles area since February 2007, and have put more than 100 Southern California poets up on the Web in this video showcase. Each link on the site takes you directly to a YouTube video of a reading or interview, and they are continuing to add new videos every month.
Poetry Matters Now
A project of the Lempert Family Foundation, Poetry Matters Now is “roaming the big tent of American poetry,” making a feature documentary that will “present poetry in its abundant diversity, personified” and a series of shorts — readings, conversations and poet profiles, all available on the Poetry Matters Web site. Gerald Stern, Patricia Smith, Alicia Ostriker, Donald Hall, Anne Waldman...
A project of the Lempert Family Foundation, Poetry Matters Now is “roaming the big tent of American poetry,” making a feature documentary that will “present poetry in its abundant diversity, personified” and a series of shorts — readings, conversations and poet profiles, all available on the Poetry Matters Web site. Gerald Stern, Patricia Smith, Alicia Ostriker, Donald Hall, Anne Waldman...
Slamerica Tour Videos
At the SlamNation site there's a great collection of streaming performances from the Slam America summer 2000 bus tour, poets across the country.
At the SlamNation site there's a great collection of streaming performances from the Slam America summer 2000 bus tour, poets across the country.
United States of Poetry
As big’n’bold as ever, with tons of audio and video clips from the award-winning PBS series produced by Josh Blum and Bob Holman, directed by Mark Pellington. USOP is a benchmark in poetry and media mix-it-up, lie back, cool heels in mouth, and engage the world as poem philosophy.
As big’n’bold as ever, with tons of audio and video clips from the award-winning PBS series produced by Josh Blum and Bob Holman, directed by Mark Pellington. USOP is a benchmark in poetry and media mix-it-up, lie back, cool heels in mouth, and engage the world as poem philosophy.
Voices & Visions
The 13-part PBS series from the Annenberg/CPB Project has highs (the people-in-the-street renderings of “Wheelbarrow”!) and lows (crrrritics), but this Web version is well done to the max and a great resource for some of the U.S.'s greatest poets -- from Emily Dickinson & Walt Whitman to Marianne Moore & Elizabeth Bishop.
The 13-part PBS series from the Annenberg/CPB Project has highs (the people-in-the-street renderings of “Wheelbarrow”!) and lows (crrrritics), but this Web version is well done to the max and a great resource for some of the U.S.'s greatest poets -- from Emily Dickinson & Walt Whitman to Marianne Moore & Elizabeth Bishop.
Why I Love Making, a meditation on media with poems, by Mike Hazard aka Media Mike
Mike Hazard, artist-in-residence at the Center for International Education in St. Paul, Minnesota, writes about making video poems & poetic videos even though they drive him crazy.
Mike Hazard, artist-in-residence at the Center for International Education in St. Paul, Minnesota, writes about making video poems & poetic videos even though they drive him crazy.