Poetry Everywhere Videos All Over the Place

Poems, like pop songs, fall quite naturally into short video pieces, whether animated like the poetry cartoons at Beau Blue’s Cruzio Cafe, or made into poetry-films where the visuals embody and accompany the word-construction, or simple readings captured on video like those at the Favorite Poem Project. For National Poetry Month 2008, the Poetry Foundation has sponsored the creation of lots of new poetry videos and they are popping up everywhere -- on Transit TV, which puts video screens in public busses (remember the poem posters that used to show up among the ads on municipal transit years ago?), on public television stations, and online:

• You can see the first series of 15 short poetry animations at the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel.
• Many of the poetry films are streamed on the Poetry Foundation’s Poetry Everywhere page.
• PBS.org also has a Poetry Everywhere page with 15 videos, mostly straight readings by the poets.

Poetry movies all over the place! Take your pick of the sites and watch one today! Then come back and post a comment below to tell us which is your favorite -- Wislawa Szymborska’s animated “Advertisement”... John Ashbery’s “Paradoxes and Oxymorons,” also animated... Wynton Marsalis reciting at the piano, “The Wild Old Wicked Man” by his favorite poet W.B. Yeats... or Poet Laureate Charles Simic reading his own “Stone”?

More poetry videos:
Fun with Poetry Cartoons
Wordsworth’s Daffodils Spring Up on YouTube
“Fragile” - Shakespeare’s Sonnet 65 is a poetry film single
Our library of links to video poetry