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In this interpretation of Edgar Allan Poe's poem "The Raven," the film is set in December 1959 where a young writer has locked himself in a hotel room and an 8mm projector screens images of his lost love Lenore. Directed by Don Thiel and Chris Saphire, the film won Best Short at the 2011 H. P. Lovecraft Film Festival, judged by Guillermo del Toro.
This animated film, narrated by the late actor Christopher Lee, is part of an anthology composed of five stories by Edgar Allan Poe, each with a different visual style to evoke the unique tone of the tales. Extraordinary Tales is directed by Raul Garcia and features the voices of Bela Lugosi, Julian Sands, Roger Corman, and Guillermo del Toro.
"We can tell more complex stories about ourselves by considering the vision of those who are different from ourselves." John Donatich, Director of Yale University Press, speaks about the Margellos World Republic of Letters which aims to publish works of literature in need of translation.
"What if there was a place just for book lovers?" Booklandia.TV is a new web video channel featuring author interviews, book reviews, literary news, and more. The channel is produced by the University of Oregon School of Journalism and Communication in Portland, Oregon in partnership with Powell's Books.
Elegy for a Dead World is a creative-writing video game that explores abandoned worlds inspired by English Romantic poets Percy Shelley, Lord Byron, and John Keats. Read more about the game's creation in "Writing an Elegy for a Dead World" by Dana Isokawa in the May/June issue of Poets & Writers Magazine. The editors discuss the game in the first episode of Ampersand: The Poets & Writers Podcast.
"Consider the white space / between words on a page, not just / the margins around them." This short film by directors Aaron Kotz and Frida Regaza, narrated by Scott Gentle, features Linda Pastan's poem "Consider the Space Between Stars." Pastan's poetry collection Insomnia is forthcoming in October from Norton.
In a talk at the Jewish Community Center of San Francisco, Kim Gordon of the band Sonic Youth discusses her memoir Girl in a Band (Dey Street Books, 2015) with Carrie Brownstein of the band Sleater-Kinney. Brownstein's memoir, Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl, is forthcoming in October from Penguin.
This short film from the Poetry School in England features Tom Jenks's poem "Ninety-Nine Names for Small Dogs." The poem is from Jenks's poetry collection A Priori (If P Then Q, 2008).
