Stop-motion whiteboard animation of a poem by Major Jackson, who is interviewed in the current issue of Poets & Writers Magazine.

This trailer for Helen Phillips's debut "novel in the form of linked fables," And Yet They Were Happy, published this month by Leapfrog Press, is animated by the author's husband, Adam Thompson, and features music by his brother, Nathan. Vanity Fair described Phillips as a "surreal miniaturist," and critic Michael Dirda praised her book as "a gallery of marvels."

“Snow that covers us from above, cover us more deeply.” In this Motionpoems, James Longenbach narrates his nostalgic poem "Snow,” which is brought to life visually through welcoming images and soft watercolors. Created by video artist Deb Kirkeeide.

A poem by Tim Nolan, illustrated and animated by Emma Burghardt, and read by the author. "Old Astronauts" is one of about a dozen animated poems produced by Minneapolis-based Motionpoems.

"Is all that we see or seem / But a dream within a dream?" Fiona McLaughlin, Lauren Patrick, and Christopher McKenna created this short animation based on Edgar Allan Poe's poem "A Dream Within A Dream."

Diego Maclean directed this animated poem, narrated by Billy Collins, from the poet's 1995 collection, The Art of Drowning (University of Pittsburgh Press).

In this clip Daniel Pogue adds stop-motion sewing animation to section 22 of Lawrence Ferlinghetti's "A Coney Island of the Mind." Ferlinghetti turned ninety-two on Thursday.

Electric Literature's latest single sentence animation is Lynne Tillman's "The Original Impulse," animated by Monica Garrison and scored by Andrei Pohorelsky. Tillman's story is published in the fifth issue of Electric Literature.

We've all seen movie trailers and book trailers, but here's a new one: a trailer for an undergraduate lecture course that was offered last fall at the University of Michigan. "Comparative Literature 382: Literature and the Other Arts: Dividing Time: Art House Animation and Poetics" used animated films, poems, short stories, aesthetic theory, and film criticism to examine "how the timing, technique, technology, attention to audience, and intertextual relations of a given work condition our experience of it."

In this blast from the past, School House Rock! presents "Lolly, Lolly, Lolly, Get Your Adverbs Here," which first aired in 1974 as part of the series of educational short films featuring music that, nearly forty years later, is still difficult to get out of one's mind. Remember "Conjunction Junction," which first aired in 1973? Who could forget?