Poets & Writers Theater

“They say time turns hawkish, that you feel it like a wing crossing over you.” In this Single Sentence Animation for Electric Literature, a sentence from Jenny Offill’s short story “The Tunnel” is animated by Luca DiPierro.

In this Single Sentence Animation for Electric Literature, Martha Colburn animates "Human Events" by Stephen O'Connor. Music by Thollem McDonas.

"As if huddled on some high plain, surrounded by the sound of distantly beating drums, telling myself, 'Well, this is it.'" In this Single Sentence Animation for Electric Literature, Bianca Stone animates "Flower Box" by A-J Aronstein.

In this Single Sentence Animation from Electric Literature, Donna K. animates the following sentence, from "Valentine" by Alexander Yates: "From that perspective, the heart must look enormous, she thinks—it must loom."

In this Single Sentence Animation from Electric Literature, James Willoughby animates the following sentence, from "Orange" by Tarah Scalzo: "Everyone knows a snow leopard is magical."

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."

In this animation for the free fiction magazine Recommended Reading, Myles David Jewell animates the following sentence from "Tributaries" by Ramona Ausubel: "Though the girls know many two-armers, even some that seem happy and in love, what they talk about are those with love-grown arms."

"And I realized that part of my problem was I visibly resembled an adult." The latest installment of Recommended Reading's Single Sentence Animations is Brandon Ray's animation of a line from "Rontel" by Sam Pink, with music by Makestapes. 

Brock Davis animates "OK" by Matt Sumell in Electric Literature's latest Single Sentence Animation.

In Electric Literature's latest Single Sentence Animation, Jason Mitcham animates a sentence from Marc Basch's "Three," a story published in Issue 6. Music by Meredith Varn.

Electric Literature's latest Single Sentence Animation takes a hallucinatory turn as Steve Edwards writes, "The doctors say we're still functioning at the same cognitive level on mental tests, but it doesn't feel right to read a book when all you really want to do is eat it."

The latest Single Sentence Animation from Electric Literature features a line from Nathan Englander's "The Reader" and animation by Drew Christie.

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.

Artist Alice Cohen animates and scores a sentence from Joy Williams's story "Baba Iaga and the Pelican Child," published in the fourth issue of Electric Literature.