Become a Slam Poet in Five Steps
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In this TED-Ed animated video, poet Gayle Danley artfully explains the five essential elements to becoming an effective slam poet.
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My Love For You Is So Embarrassingly
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“A fabric Titanic on an ocean of air.” This Motionpoem melds “My Love For You Is So Embarrassingly”, a poem by Todd Boss, with the design and animation of Deb Kirkeedie and music of Jesse Marks.
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Maggie Shipstead
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In this Single Sentence Animation from Electric Literature, Suneet Sethi animates the following sentence, from "Angel Lust" by Maggie Shipstead: "Her mascara, running down her smooth, downy cheeks, made her look like a tragic urchin, a child whore, Brooke Shields in Pretty Baby, Jodi Foster in Taxi Driver."
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Kate Atkinson
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What if you could live again and again, until you got it right? That is the tantalizing premise of Kate Atkinson's latest novel, Life After Life, published this month by Reagan Arthur Books. The novel has already been shortlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction, better known by its previous name, the Orange Prize.
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For the Bullied and Beautiful
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Poet Shane Koyczan delivers a performance of "To This Day," his spoken-word poem about bullying that went viral as a video project with eighty different animators earlier this year.
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Pablo Neruda
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The short film "The Me Bird" is a visual interpretation of Neruda's poem of the same name, which ends: "That's why I come and go, / fly and don't fly but sing: / I am the furious bird / of the calm storm." 18bis, the graphics studion in Rio de Janeiro that created the film, explains the imagery: "The frames depicted as jail and the past as a burden serve as the background for the story of a ballerina on a journey towards freedom. A diversified artistic experimentation recreates the tempest that connects bird and dancer."
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Public Writing
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Commissioned as part of the City of Melbourne Laneway Commission 2010, Public Writing is a dual-screen digital animation of a readymade sculpture combining a typewriter and the wing and tail plumage of a Yellow Crested Cockatoo. This hybrid writing machine produces text as cutup and concrete poetry.
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Preparing for AWP
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Rebecca McClanahan's poem, which was published in River Teeth: A Journal of Nonfiction Narrative, will resonate with anyone in Boston later this week for the annual AWP conference and book fair. "Annual Conference: 8,000 Writers Expected" is read by the poet and visualized by Donald Devet.
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Our Education
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In this animation for the free fiction magazine Recommended Reading, Grier Dill animates and scores the following sentence from "Our Education" by Lincoln Michel: "Did we as students, in our weakness, fabricate whole memories from these scattered, pointless items?"
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Behold, Our Bodies
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The words of this poem, "Our Bodies (A Sinner's Prayer)" by Matt Mullins, are taken from a sermon by the late televangelist Oral Roberts, edited and remixed by the poet.
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