Filmmaker Ava DuVernay counts herself as one of the many people inspired by W.J. Lofton’s powerful visual poem “We Ask For Fire”—in which he repeats the words, “the cops who murdered Breonna Taylor ...

NEW HAVEN, CT — Monica Ong is a 21st-century visual poet who extends the reader’s sense of what is possible. She is the author of Silent Anatomies (Kore Press, 2014), which renowned poet Joy Harjo ...

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"Remember the sky you were born under. Know each of the star's stories..." This is a must watch 3-minute visual poem short film from the Sun Valley Writers' Conference 2021. They commissioned a set of ...

Like many people, poet Holly Lyn Walrath created all kinds of visual art as a kid in school. Drawings, finger paintings — you name it. But, like many of us do as we grow up, she abandoned it after ...

Poems are one of the favorite topics to explore for AI researchers. Google built one to help you compose poetry that doesn’t look like you shat words on paper, Microsoft built one to convert images ...

The 2023 Oscar-nominated live-action shorts are highlighted by fascinating choices by a promising group of filmmakers, whether lacing environments with hidden meanings, fashioning a visual poem, ...

On days when I long to hear your voice, I dream of you dying. In the dream, you have no face so let me plant pansies on that face. so Mom, I’ve made a portrait of you. Saki Okinaka is a senior ...

Second version of the video-poem "Visual Text: Finger Poem" (1968), by Valie Export, conceived after the eponymous photo poem from 1968: "I say what is shown in showing what is said" (freely adapted ...