The children in Diego Vazquez Lozano and Statten Roeg’s adaptation of Michalle Gould’s “How Not to Need Resurrection” are the first resurrectionists: They hold their breath, and cross their arms, and shut their eyes; then rise as if they could climb without a ladder into the heavens, then drop back down. They alone understand that the trick is not to try.
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Motionpoems Season 6 is presented in partnership with VIDA: Women in Literary Arts.
OCT 2016 (TBA): Year 2 of "Arrivals and Departures," our colossal poetry film installation at Union Depot in Saint Paul. Click "Public Art" above for details.
Films by: ANGELA & ITHYLE | JAY BUIM | THIBAULT DEBAVEYE of Psyop | ALEX HANSON & EDWARD CHASE MASTERSON of Commandr | JESSICA HUNDLEY | DANNY MADDEN | DIEGO LOZANO & STATTEN ROEG of Det East | NICOLE McDONALD | BRYAN MICHURSKI | ALICIA REECE | MATT SMITHSON of Man vs Magnet | JEFF STEVENS of Pixel Farm | DIEGO VASQUEZ
Poems by: KIM ADDONIZIO | PAULA BOHINCE | STACEY LYNN BROWN | ALLISON ADELLE HEDGE COKE | BETH COPELAND | JEHANNE DUBROW | REBECCA MORGAN FRANK | JESSICA GOODFELLOW | MICHALLE GOULD | ANN EICHLER KOLAKOWSKI | MEGHAN O'ROURKE | BRENDA SHAUGHNESSY
POETS: Nathan Anderson | Erin Belieu | Marvin Bell | Sarah Blake | Robert Bly | Todd Boss | Tishani Doshi | Stephen Dunn | Robert Gibb | Dobby Gibson | Albert Goldbarth | K. A. Hays | David Hernandez | Bob Hicok | Jane Hirshfield | Laura Kasischke | Victoria Kelly | L. S. Klatt | John Koethe | Mark Kraushaar | Maxine Kumin | David Lehman | James Longenbach | Eireann Lorsung | Bridget Lowe | Thomas Lux | Freya Manfred | Dora Malech | David Mason | WS Merwin | Kenn Nesbitt | Tim Nolan | Eric Pankey | Catherine Pierce | Peter Jay Shippy | Mark Strand | Dag Straumsvag | Melissa Studdard | David Wagoner | Richard Wilbur | Leila Wilson | Mark Wunderlich | Dean Young | Matthew Zapruder
VIDEO ARTISTS: Ayse Altinok | John Akre | Babe Elliott Baker | Laurent Barthelemy & Shizuki Kusayanagi | Emma Burghardt | Will Campbell & Will Johnson of GENTLEMAN SCHOLAR | Matt Craig | Juan Delcan | Noah Dorsey | John Eickholt | Faith Eskola | Carolyn Figel of MPC | David P. Hanson | Evan Holm | Tom Jacobsen | Richard Johnson | Chris Jopp | Angella Kassube | Deb Kirkeeide | Joanna Kohler | Stefan Lessard of THE DAVE MATTHEWS BAND | Andrew Montague of MPC | Scott Olson | Jay Orff | Rob Perez | Aran Quin & Jeff Dates of THE MILL | Isaac Ravishankara | Alicia Reece of NEIGHBOR | Mark Rubbo | Jeff Saunders | Amy Schmitt | Dan Sickles & Antonio Antini | Adam Tow | Georgia Tribuiani of PSYOP | Monika Umba | Matt Van Ekeren | Scott Wenner | Greg Winter
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