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Fearless Laughter: Yusef Komunyakaa’s Advice to Young Poets

A video created by Sampsonia Way magazine for Rattapallax. Komunyakaa was interviewed by Elizabeth Hoover, and the video production and editing are by Glen Wood.

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Invisible Man by Amir Rabiyah

Kevin Simmonds’ brief film is part interview, part reading. Simmonds is the editor of the forthcoming anthology Collective Brightness: LGBTIQ Poets on Faith, Religion & Spirituality, which...

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Tree by Jane Hirshfield

Hirshfield’s reading of “Tree” is preceded by a short but eloquent statement about the role of poetry in contemporary society that really resonated with me, as well as a few words about how she came...

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Young David by Yehuda Amichai (with discussion by Edward Hirsch)

Avi Dabach’s marvelous film interpretation of Amichai’s “Young David” (translated by Abraham Birman) is wrapped within a video introduction and post-film discussion by Bob Holman and Edward Hirsh at...

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Tomas Tranströmer

This new film from Bloodaxe Books, one of Tranströmer’s English-language publishers, incorporates footage of the Nobel Prize announcement and the Tranströmers’ reaction, as well as footage of...

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Lenora de Barros: the challenge of working with sound in a society of images

Lenora de Barros is a genre-crosser, a concrete poet and visual artist also working in film and audio. I was impressed that someone with such a strong background in the visual aspect of poetry would...

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Road to Damascus: Journey with a Syrian poet

An anonymous Syrian poet muses on real terror versus sleep terrors: The same man who is trying to shoot me is me. I have no face in the dream, I am the man and me. This horror of the dream stays long....

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The Confession: poetry and conversation with Yehia Jaber

Lebanese poet Yehia Jaber discusses his beliefs about war and peace, God and poetry, and recites one example of his work in Arabic (with English in subtitles). The British/Iranian filmmaker Roxana...

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To Do Wid Me (trailer) by Benjamin Zephaniah

As a fan primarily of mainstream, “page” poetry I don’t necessarily seek out spoken-word poetry, but I am enlivened and inspired by poets like Benjamin Zephaniah — not that there are too many other...

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Ode to Gray by Sherman Alexie

A charming poem followed by a brief discussion with Bill Moyers from American public television. I post this not only because I like Sherman Alexie, but because I love the color gray.

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Meet John Ashbery

John Ashbery probably needs no introduction to fans of contemporary American poetry — or does he? Has his very eminence led many to ignore him in favor of younger, more fashionable poets? Williams...

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Burning House by Jovan Mays and Theo Wilson

Amid racial tensions in communities such as Ferguson, Missouri, and following the unwarranted deaths of young black men like Michael Brown and Trayvon Martin, two slam poets confront what it means to...

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In the Air by Kate Sweeney

A unique poetry film: a hand-drawn animation of poets’ hands from interview snippets that can also be seen as a remix videopoem. Kate Sweeney explains in the Vimeo description: Created from short...

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Juan Felipe Herrera’s winding path to poetry + Five Directions to My House

* Following last week’s announcement that Juan Felipe Herrera would be the next U.S. Poet Laureate, PBS NewsHour sent their arts correspondent to Fresno and produced this pair of videos. Juan Felipe...

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Wordpharmacy by Morten Søndergaard

A documentary/interview from the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art of Danish poet Morten Søndergaard‘s wonderful multimedia project Wordpharmacy, which combines the structure of language with the healing...

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An Interview: Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes

This film by Maggie Bailey blends interpretative dance with snippets of a 1961 interview with Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes. Here’s the description from Vimeo: An Interview stems from a desire to...

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Af’a Gilgamesh / Gilgamesh’s Snake (excerpt) by Ghareeb Iskander

A great poetry film by Roxana Vilk, combining videopoem (with an English translation in subtitles by John Glenday) and a brief explanation of the poem by its author, Iraqi poet Ghareeb Iskander. This...

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“Seeing life in a different way”: Gabriel Rosenstock on haiku

A great feature on Irish haikujin Gabriel Rosenstock from the arts and culture TV program Imeall, produced by Red Shoe Productions. The English translations of the interview and haiku are excellent,...

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Where Commuters Run Over Black Children, 1971 by Lillien Waller

Generally, I think my work is interested in how history bears down on the individual and on communities, how it affects people’s lives in large ways, as in social policy, but also in kind of the small...

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Here, Bullet by Brian Turner

This week at Moving Poems we’re marking the 15th anniversary of the US Congress’ nearly unanimous passage of the Authorization to Use Military Force on September 14, 2001, which launched the modern...

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