BOSS | KASSUBE | “Don’t Be Flip”
Todd Boss’s flippant poem about the frangibility of our lives gets equally flippant treatment from Angella Kassube.
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BLY | KASSUBE | “Wanting Sumptuous Heavens”
Angella Kassube, who might have contented herself with Robert Bly’s words alone, wants more from his poem about wanting.
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HIRSHFIELD | EICKHOLT | “Suitcase”
Can’t hear a voice in this poem? John Eickholt deftly uses only a quiet, intimate music to underscore Jane Hirshfield’s meditation on hearing loss.
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NOLAN | BURGHARDT | “Old Astronauts”
Emma Burghardt’s well-paced exploration of the space between Tim Nolan’s lines won her a slot in the Zebra Poetry Film Festival in Berlin.
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BOSS | JACOBSEN | “The God of Our Farm Had Blades”
To bring Todd Boss’s poem about an old windmill to life, Tom Jacobsen manipulated actual photographs of farm buildings taken in northern Minnesota.
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BELL | CICARELLI | “An Elm We Lost”
In a sweeping, other-wordly piece by Antonio Cicarelli, Marvin Bell’s briefest of love poems is given to the wind.
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BOSS | KASSUBE | “Constellations”
Here’s where it all began: Angella Kassube connected her love of poetry to Todd Boss’s poem in 2008, and by 2009 they’d become co-founders of Motionpoems.
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MANFRED | WINTER | “Swimming into Winter”
Greg Winter went deep and came up with this fresh take on a poem by Freya Manfred.
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MANFRED | WINTER | “Swimming in the Rain”
In the Land of 10,000 Lakes, Greg Winter used an underwater camera to film this poem by Freya Manfred.
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