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Art + Mediin

ART + MEDICINE

Morning Walk | Poem by Joyce Sutphen | Film by Zack Grant
To be of use | Poem by Marge Piercy | Film by Tamika Miller
On Lockdown | Poem by Todd Boss | Film by Calum Macdiarmid

MOTIONPOEMS EU

Motionpoems UK
Hothouse 2019
The Monument | Poem by Hieu Minh Nguyen | Film by Ryan Stopera
Season 9
The posh mums are boxing in the square | Poem by Wayne Holloway-Smith | Film by Helmie Still
The Opened Field | Poem by Dom Bury | Film by Helmie Stil | Poem by Dom Bury | Video by Helmie Stil
Do not indulge indigo | Poem by Katie Griffith | Film by James W. Norton
Polite Safety Notice | Poem by Mark Fiddes | Film by Aindri C

HOTHOUSE 2019

SEASON 9

The Ayes Have It | Poem by Tiana Clark | Film by Savanah Leaf
Every Day | Poem by Robin Coste Lewis | Film by Ryan Simon
American Arithmetic | Poem by Natalie Diaz | Film by Mohammed Hammad
Cell Watch_Strip Cell | Poem by Susannah Nevison | Film by Jane Morledge
War Poem | Poem by Nomi Stone | Film by Ty Richardson
Cranes, Mafiosos and a Polaroid Camera | Poem by Natalie Diaz | Film by Tash Tung
Song of the Mutant Super Boars | Poem by Lee Ann Roripaugh | Film by Monty Marsh
Boy Saint | Poem by Peter LaBerge | Film by Tom Speers
Good Bones | Poem by Maggie Smith | Film by Anais La Rocca
I Come from the Fire City | Poem by Eve L. Ewing | Film by Daniel Daly
Small Shoes | Poem by Maggie Smith | Film by Kate Dolan
A Household God | Poem by C. Russell Price | Film by Sean Donnelly
The Opened Field | Poem by Dom Bury | Film by Helmie Stil
Upon reading that Andromeda will one day devour Triangulum and come for us next | Poem by Brian Spears | Video by Ged Murray
Say Grace | Poem by Emily Jungmin Yoon | Video by Richelle Chen
Fable | Film by Zanete Skarule | Poetry by Jackson Hobert
South County | Poem by Meghann Plunkett | Film by Kenneth Kegley
Where the Wild Things Go | Poem by D. Gilson | Film by Fergal Costello
Breanna | Poem by Lyrik Courtney | Film by Najeeb Tarazi
My English Victorian Dating Troubles | Poem by Analicia Sotelo | Video by Maeyen Bassey
The Transformation | Poem by Emily Jungmin Yoon | Film by Malin Sandberg
Season 8

SEASON 8: DEAR MR. PRESIDENT

Spoken Word

SPOKEN WORD

How to Make the Girl and How to Make The Maker | Poem by Dessa Wander | Film by Ann Prim
Pocket-Sized Feminism | Poem by Blythe Baird | Film by Valerie Schenkman
How To Love Your Introvert | Poem by Kevin Yang | Film by Vokee Lee
The Other's World | Poem by J Otis Powell | Film by Zachary Thomas Cedarholm
Meditations on My Mother | Poem by Ancestor Energy (Louis Alemayehu) | Film by Brian Few Jr.
Season 7

SEASON 7

PRODUCED IN PARTNERSHIP WITH CAVE CANEM: A HOME FOR BLACK POETRY,

THIS SEASON FEATURES BLACK POETS.

How Do You Raise A Black Child? | Poem by Cortney Lamar Charleston | Film by Seyi Peter Thomas of Station Film
Things I Carry Into the World | Poem by Cynthia Manick | Film by Pat Heywood & Jamil McGinnis
The Robots Are Coming | Poem by Kyle G. Dargan | Film by Julia Iverson
From 35,000 Feet / Praise Aviophobia | Poem by Geffrey Davis | Film by Chad Howitt
The Tao of the Black Plastic Comb | Poem by Glenis Redmond | Film by Irving Hillman
Tryouts | Poem by Gary Jackson | Film by Victor Newman
application for the position of abdelhalim hafez's girl | Poem by Safia Elhillo | Film by Donna Lamar
The Blue Black Wet of Wood | Poem by Carmen Gillespie | Film by Malik Vitthal
A Sonnet after Chopin's Requiem | Poem by Monique Adelle | Film by Timber
Asterism | Poem by Keith Wilson | Film by Cris Thorne
The Behest of a Fading Diva | Poem by Qiana Towns | Film by Casey Stein

SPECIAL PROJECTS
FILMS THAT DEFY CATEGORIZATION

Special Projects
Steel & Air | Poem by John Ashbery | Film by Chris & Nick Libbey
The Pocketeer | Poem by Todd Boss | Film by Jimmy Gildea & Elizabeth Turner

MOTIONPOEMS FOR YOUNG PEOPLE
PRODUCED IN PARTNERSHIP WITH THE POETRY FOUNDATION,
THIS SEASON FEATURES POETRY FOR CHILDREN and YOUNG ADULTS.

Motionpoems for Young People
Choices | Poem by Tess Gallagher | Film by USC
Famous | Poem by Naomi Shihab Nye | Film by Anthony Frattolillo
I Am Offering This Poem | Poem by Jimmy Santiago Baca | Film by Frost
Monsters | Poem by Dorothea Lasky | Film by Method
Poorly Dressed | Poem by Bruce Lansky | Film by USC
There Are Birds Here | Poem by Jamaal May | Film by USC
To Catch a Fish | Poem by Eloise Greenwood | Film by The Wilderness
Wayne the Stegosaurus | Poem by Kenn Nesbitt | Film by Aran Quinn & Jeffrey Dates (The Mill)
Weighing In | Poem by Rhina P. Espaillat | Film by MPC

SEASON 6

PRODUCED IN PARTNERSHIP WITH VIDA: WOMEN IN LITERARY ARTS,

THIS SEASON FEATURES A LINEUP OF ALL-FEMALE POETS.

Season 6
A Day at the Mall Reminds Me of America | Poem by Sarah Blake | Film by Ayse Altinok
How Not to Need Resurrection | Poem by Michalle Gould | Film by Diego V. Lozano & Statten Roeg
The Mother Warns the Tornado | Poem by Catherine Pierce | Film by Isaac Ravishanara
Once | Poem by Meghan O'Rourke | Film by Angela & Ithyle
Crows, Reckoning | Poem by Jessica Goodfellow | Film by Commandr
Undersong | Poem by Stacey Lynn Brown | Film by Matt Smithson
Creased Map of the Underworld | Poem by Kim Addonizio | Film by Thomas Bryan Michurski
Falling Lessons: Erasure One | Poem by Beth Copeland | Film by Anh Vu
Triolet for Laika, First Dog in Space | Poem by Ann Eichler Kolakowski | Film by Emory Allen
Cigar Box Banjo | Poem by Kim Addonizio | Film by Danny Madden
I Ate the Cosmos for Breakfast | Poem by Melissa Studdard | Film by Dan Sickles
I'm Over the Moon | Poem by Brenda Shaughnessy | Film by Jessica Hundley
At Thirty | Poem by Paula Bohince | Film by Thibault Debaveye
The Long Deployment | Poem by Jehanne Dubrow | Film by Nicole McDonald

SEASON 5

CO-PRODUCED WITH BEST AMERICAN POETRY

Season 5
Postcard to My Third Crush Today | Poem by Sean Hill | Film by Sam Hoolihan
Jung / Malena / Darwin | Poem by Albert Goldbarth | Film by Chris Jopp
Talking Points (Eggheads) | Poem by John Koethe | Film by Rob Perez
All American | Poem by David Hernandez | Film by Richard Johnson
Albert Einstein | Poem by Matthew Zapruder | Film by John Akre
When the Men Go Off to War | Poem by Victoria Kelly | Film by Noah Dorsey
Western Civilization | Poem by Peter Jay Shippy | Film by Alicia Reece
The Ring-Toss Lady Breaks a Five | Poem by Mark Kraushaar | Film by Stefan Lessard & Fred Schroeder
Working Order | Poem by Dora Malech | Film by William Campbell & Will Johnson
Antique Sound | Poem by W.S. Merwin | Film by Evan Holm
Stupid Sandwich | Poem by Nathan Anderson | Film by Carolyn Figel & Andrew Montague
The Imagined | Poem by Stephen Dunn | Film by Matt Craig
This Is Not a Fairytale | Poem by Laura Kasischke | Film by Laurent Barthelemy & Shizuka Kusayanagi
Wayne the Stegosaurus | Poem by Kenn Nesbitt | Film by Aran Quinn & Jeffrey Dates

SEASON 4

CO-PRODUCED WITH BEST AMERICAN POETRY, COPPER CANYON PRESS,

GRAYWOLF PRESS, AND MILKWEED EDITIONS.

Season 4
The Mysterious Arrival of an Unusual Letter | Poem by Mark Strand | Film by Scott Wenner
Circles in the Sky | Poem by Bob Hicok | Film by Keri Moller
Either Or | Poem by Maxine Kumin | Film by Adam Tow
Lisp of Cloud | Poem by Leila Wilson | Film by David P. Hanson
Spirit in the Dark | Poem by Robert Gibb | Film by Tom Jacobsen
Historical Fragment | Poem by Éireann Lorsung | Film by Pablo Delcan
Discharged Into Clouds | Poem by Dean Young | Film by Angela Kassube
The Painter | Poem by Dobby Gibson | Film by Mark Rubbo
The Dream | Poem by Tishani Doshi | Film by Babe Elliott Baker

SEASON 3

Season 3
French Movie | Poem by David Lehman | Film by Scott Wenner
Andrew Wyeth, Painter, Dies at 91 | Poem by L.S. Klatt | Film by Tom Jacobsen
Just As, After a Point, Job Cried Out | Poem by K.A. Hays | Film by Angella Kassube & Emma Burghardt
When at A Certain Party in NYC | Poem by Erin Belieu | Film by Amy Schmitt
The Poem of the Spanish Poet | Poem by Mark Strand | Film by Juan Delcan
Thoreau and the Lighting | Poem by David Wagoner | Film by Adam Tow
Ecclesiastes 11:1 | Poem by Richard Wilbur | Film by Faith Eskola
The Cloudy Vase | Poem by Jane Hirshfield | Film by Scott Olson & Jeff Saunders
Having Intended to Merely Pick on An Oil Company, the Poem Goes Awry | Poem by Bob Hicok | Film by Joanna Kohler
The Pilgrim is Bridled and Bespectacled | Poem by Bridget Lowe | Film by Angella Kassube
Snow | Poem by James Longenbach | Film by Deb Kirkeeide
Cogitatio Mortis | Poem by Eric Pankey | Film by Scott Olson
Season 2

SEASON 2

The Watcher of Vowels | Poem by Robert Bly | Film by Matt Van Ekeren, Catalina Kulczar-Marin, & Carly Zuckweiler
The Trees—They Were Once Good Men | Poem by Todd Boss | Film by Emma Burghardt
Render, Render | Poem by Thomas Lux | Film by Angella Kassube
My Love for You Is So Embarrassingly | Poem by Todd Boss | Film by Deb Kirkeeide & Jesse Marks
Karl | Poem by Dag Straumsvåg | Film by Scott Wenner
Old Astronauts | Poem by Tim Nolan | Film by Emma Burghardt
An Elm We Lost | Poem by Marvin Bell | Film by Antonio Cicarelli
Don't Be Flip | Poem by Todd Boss | Film by Angella Kassube
Season 1

SEASON 1

Sea Salt | Poem by David Mason | Film by Amy Schmitt, Kelly Pieklo, & Emily J. Snyder
June | Poem by Dag Straumsvåg | Film by Jay Orff
The God of Our Farm Had Blades | Poem by Todd Boss | Film by Tom Jacobsen
Suitcase | Poem by Jane Hirshfield | Film by John Eickholt
Swimming in the Rain | Poem by Freya Manfred | Film by Gregory Winter
Swimming Into Winter | Poem by Freya Manfred | Film by Gregory Winter
Wanting Sumptuous Heavens | Poem by Robert Bly | Film by Angella Kassube
Constellations | Poem by Todd Boss | Film by Angella Kassube
Icicles | Poem by Todd Boss | Film by Michael Guncheon & Ren O'Brien
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