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This short film, directed by Alex Markman, starring Tom Shillue, and produced by Electric Literature, takes a look at how well the big books of 2010 would protect you in the event of a shooting.
Bob Holman reads "Happy New Year Poem" at the 37th annual New Year's Day marathon reading at the St. Mark's Poetry Project in New York City.
I Have Been Thinking About Snow
Ander Monson's video interpretation of one of the essays in his 2007 collection, Neck Deep and Other Predicaments (Graywolf Press). "Best watched in the dark, lights off, January in Michigan, real cold," Monson writes on his YouTube channel.
This short film, written and directed by David Spies and produced by Phil Seneker, is about a writer who is pressured by his literary agent to find his muse.
"The God of Our Farm Had Blades"
This poem by Todd Boss, read by the author, animated by Tom Jacobsen, with music by Jesse Marks, was produced by Motionpoems.
This book trailer, produced by one of the authors featured in our sixth annual debut poets roundup, features clips from a Tea Party political rally held this past summer in Racine, Wisconsin, and music by The Scarring Party.
Things That No Longer Delight Me
Leslie C. Chang, one of the twelve authors featured in the sixth annual debut poets roundup, reads from her poetry collection on March 23, 2010, at Fordham University as part of the Poets Out Loud series.
Frank O'Hara reads his poem "Lana Turner Has Collapsed" to Nirvana's cover of "Love Buzz" in this audio mix created by Len Sousa.
This original series, about a young poet who discovers a lost manuscript and "the only key to an unsolved thirty-year-old murder," is written by Susan Brennan, directed by Ram Devineni, and produced by Rattapallax Productions. Two episodes have been released and can be viewed at rattapallax.com/blog/verse.
Charles Bukowski: Poet on the Edge, an exhibition of photographs, letters, special editions, and other ephemera, is being shown at the Huntington Library in San Marino, California, through February 11, 2011. For a look at two of the poet's pen-and-ink drawings featured in the exhibition, check out The Written Image in the January/February 2011 issue of Poets & Writers Magazine.