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“We are drunkards who never take a drop.” Todd Boss reads in this motionpoem of “The Watcher of Vowels,” written by poet Robert Bly. Matt Van Ekeren, Catalina Kulczar-Marin, and Carly Zuckweiler created the video.
“No one seemed to miss the cards she took.” This Motionpoem hauntingly depicts “Historical Fragment,” a poem by Éireann Lorsung, by expressing it through the line drawings of Brian Rea, the music of Naoh Kaplan, and the narration of Rosalie Kaplan. Directed by Pablo Delcán.
“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.
Frank and Henry Nahurski interpret Larissa Szporluk’s poem “Sunflower” from Traffic With MacBeth (Tupelo Press, 2011) in this most recent offering from Motionpoems.
Babe Elliott Baker brings poet Tishani Doshi’s poem "The Dream," from Everything Begins Elsewhere (Copper Canyon Press, 2013), to the small screen in the latest Motionpoem.
Written in the midst of a deep depression, Eric Pankey’s “Cogitatio Mortis” (Latin for “I think of death”) is translated by video artists Jeff Saunders and Scott Olson in the latest installment from Motionpoems.
"World, there are two baskets / on my back. / Fill them." Visual artist Angella Kassube re-envisions poet Bridget Lowe’s "The Pilgrim Is Bridled and Bespectacled" in this offering from Motionpems. Happy Thanksgiving, everyone.
Bob Hicok's "Having intended to merely pick on an oil company, the poem goes awry" gets dramatic in documentarian Joanna Kohler's adaptation, produced by Motionpoems.
"Helps us to believe / That it’s no great sin to give, / Hoping to receive," writes Richard Wilbur in this poem, read by the iPhone-wielding video artist Faith Eskola's five-year-old child and brought to life by Motionpoems.
This month's selection from Motionpoems is Adam Tow's visual interpretation of David Wagoner's poem "Thoreau and the Lightning," from the collection After the Point of No Return (Copper Canyon Press, 2011).
