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This documentary about a wannabe poet who sets off on a quest for answers about writing, featuring interviews with literary figures such as Nick Flynn, D.A. Powell, George Saunders, and David Sedaris, opened in select cities on Friday.
To commemorate the birthday of Emily Dickinson, who was born on December 10, 1830, we offer a video that illustrates the far-reaching influence of the poet's work. This Polish music video, which is based on the Dickinson poem "Much madness is divinest sense," performed by Monika Wierzbicka, and directed by Michal Jaskulski, has been selected for numerous film festival competitions and won several international awards.
A short video poem by British poet, photographer, and artist David Alcock, produced at Plymouth College of Art in Devon, England.
In this footage of Al Alvarez's 1967 interview with John Berryman in Dublin, the poet talks about some of the techniques he employed in 77 Dream Songs, which had won the Pulitzer Prize three years earlier, and reads "Dream Song 14." Berryman commited suicide on January 7, 1972.
After years of planning, Google eBooks, the e-bookstore that's been described as an "open ecosystem" that will eventually offer more than three million books, is finally here. See for yourself in this promotional video.
Gerardo Mena, a decorated veteran of Operation Iraqi Freedom, recently won the 2010 War Poetry contest, sponsored by the Web site winningwriters.com, for his poem "So I Was a Coffin." This video poem features music composed by Mena as well as photographs contributed by members of the 3rd Reconnaissance Battalion or their family members.
Married authors John Yunker and Midge Raymond present a cautionary tale titled "Love in the Time of Amazon.com."
Terrance Hayes, who on Wednesday took home the National Book Award in poetry for his latest collection, Lighthead (Penguin), read one of his poems at the Jazz Poetry Concert in Pittsburgh.
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.
Missouri farmer Eric Borden talks about what inspires him to write poetry on the occasion of his releasing a CD of his poems.
