Poems and Poets Captured in Video Motion

Video is certainly the fastest growing Web medium, and it’s an interesting vehicle for two kinds of poetry: recorded reading or performance, which gives you the multidimensional aural and visual experience of the poem as conveyed most often by the poet who wrote it, and word-art, in which it’s the actual letterforms whose motion is captured in the video recording. Here are two new links worth checking out, one of each.

• Poetry.LA, Wayne Lindberg and Hilda Weiss’ video showcase of readings and interviews, including more than 100 Southern California poets, and more each month.
• At Conduit magazine, Oni Buchanan’s “The Mandrake Vehicles,” three examples of a new form of animated poem which evolves in stages from a block of text which reveals “secret, embedded poems” as some of the letters float away.

More poetry videos:
A newly discovered cache of poetry video shorts
Poetry Everywhere Videos All Over the Place
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