PANKEY | OLSON & SAUNDERS | “Cogitatio Mortis”
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. Each scene, anchored, “measures the same hour” differently.
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LONGENBACH | KIRKEEIDE| “Snow”
James Longenbach’s spare poem about a bygone boyhood season gets atmospheric, thanks to video artist Deb Kirkeeide’s soft-edged, overlapping watercolors.
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LOWE | KASSUBE | “The Pilgrim is Bridled and Bespectacled”
Visual artist Angella Kassube was inspired to re-envision, in joyous colors, poet Bridget Lowe’s grounded prayer for sight and insight.
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HICOK | KOHLER | “Having intended to merely pick on an oil company, the poem goes awry”
An ounce of humility goes a long way in this grounded adaptation of Bob Hicok’s runaway musings on big oil by documentarian Joanna Kohler.
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HIRSHFIELD | OLSON & SAUNDERS | “The Cloudy Vase”
Blink and it’s gone. But video artists Scott Olson and Jeff Saunders use water and light to capture forever this haiku-like poem by Buddhist poet Jane Hirshfield.
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WILBUR | ESKOLA | “Ecclesiastes 11:1″
Richard Wilbur, one of America’s most august poets, speaks through the voice of iPhone-wielding video artist Faith Eskola’s five-year-old child in this meditation on the often-dormant roots of faith.
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WAGONER | TOW | “Thoreau and the Lightning”
Henry David Thoreau himself is struck from this David Wagoner poem as re-interpreted by video artist Adam Tow, whose inspiration springs from a different era.
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STRAND | DELCAN | “The Poem of the Spanish Poet”
Partly filmed in the Pulitzer Prize winning poet’s New York apartment, and partly animated by director and animation artist Juan Delcan, this new poem by Mark Strand straddles those worlds … and a few more.
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BELIEU | SCHMITT | “When at a Certain Party in NYC”
Video artist Amy Schmitt uses jazz and a hard-boiled male voice talent to bump up the snob factor of Erin Belieu’s “When at a Certain Party in NYC.”
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HAYS | BURGHARDT | “Just As, After a Point, Job Cried Out”
By layering transparent and translucent images, animator Emma Burghardt enlightens this elemental post-apocalyptic poem by K. A. Hays.
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