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HOTHOUSE ART + MEDICINE MOTIONPOEMS EU
MOTIONPOEMS FOR YOUNG PEOPLE SPOKEN WORD SPECIAL PROJECTS

Art + Medicine

ART + MEDICINE

Motionpoems UK

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

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

The posh mums are boxing in the square | Poem by Wayne Holloway-Smith | Film by Helmie Still

HOTHOUSE 2019

Hothouse 2019

The Monument | Poem by Hieu Minh Nguyen | Film by Ryan Stopera

Season 9

SEASON 9

The Transformation | Poem by Emily Jungmin Yoon | Film by Malin Sandberg

Where the Wild Things Go | Poem by D. Gilson | Film by Fergal Costello

Upon reading that Andromeda will one day devour Triangulum and come for us next | Poem by Brian Spears | Video by Ged Murray

Fable | Film by Zanete Skarule | Poetry by Jackson Hobert

The Opened Field | Poem by Dom Bury | Film by Helmie Stil | Poem by Dom Bury | Video by Helmie Stil

A Household God | Poem by C. Russell Price | Film by Sean Donnelly

My English Victorian Dating Troubles | Poem by Analicia Sotelo | Video by Maeyen Bassey

Breanna | Poem by Lyrik Courtney | Film by Najeeb Tarazi

South County | Poem by Meghann Plunkett | Film by Kenneth Kegley

Say Grace | Poem by Emily Jungmin Yoon | Video by Richelle Chen

SEASON 8: DEAR MR. PRESIDENT

Season 8

I Come from the Fire City | Poem by Eve L. Ewing | Film by Daniel Daly

Good Bones | Poem by Maggie Smith | Film by Anais La Rocca

Song of the Mutant Super Boars | Poem by Lee Ann Roripaugh | Film by Monty Marsh

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

Boy Saint | Poem by Peter LaBerge | Film by Tom Speers

Small Shoes | Poem by Maggie Smith | Film by Kate Dolan

Cranes, Mafiosos and a Polaroid Camera | Poem by Natalie Diaz | Film by Tash Tung

Every Day | Poem by Robin Coste Lewis | Film by Ryan Simon

The Ayes Have It | Poem by Tiana Clark | Film by Savanah Leaf

Spoken Word

SPOKEN WORD

Meditations on My Mother | Poem by Ancestor Energy (Louis Alemayehu) | Film by Brian Few Jr.

The Other's World | Poem by J Otis Powell | Film by Zachary Thomas Cedarholm

Pocket-Sized Feminism | Poem by Blythe Baird | Film by Valerie Schenkman

How to Make the Girl and How to Make The Maker | Poem by Dessa Wander | Film by Ann Prim

How To Love Your Introvert | Poem by Kevin Yang | Film by Vokee Lee

Season 7

SEASON 7
PRODUCED IN PARTNERSHIP WITH CAVE CANEM: A HOME FOR BLACK POETRY,
THIS SEASON FEATURES BLACK POETS.

I Come from the Fire City | Poem by Eve L. Ewing | Film by Daniel Daly

Good Bones | Poem by Maggie Smith | Film by Anais La Rocca

Song of the Mutant Super Boars | Poem by Lee Ann Roripaugh | Film by Monty Marsh

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

Boy Saint | Poem by Peter LaBerge | Film by Tom Speers

Small Shoes | Poem by Maggie Smith | Film by Kate Dolan

Cranes, Mafiosos and a Polaroid Camera | Poem by Natalie Diaz | Film by Tash Tung

Every Day | Poem by Robin Coste Lewis | Film by Ryan Simon

The Ayes Have It | Poem by Tiana Clark | Film by Savanah Leaf

Special Projects

SPECIAL PROJECTS
FILMS THAT DEFY CATEGORIZATION

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

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

To Catch a Fish | Poem by Eloise Greenwood | Film by The Wilderness

Weighing In | Poem by Rhina P. Espaillat | Film by MPC

I Am Offering This Poem | Poem by Jimmy Santiago Baca | Film by Frost

Wayne the Stegosaurus | Poem by Kenn Nesbitt | Film by Aran Quinn & Jeffrey Dates (The Mill)

Famous | Poem by Naomi Shihab Nye | Film by Anthony Frattolillo

There Are Birds Here | Poem by Jamaal May | Film by USC

Choices | Poem by Tess Gallagher | Film by USC

Poorly Dressed | Poem by Bruce Lansky | Film by USC

Monsters | Poem by Dorothea Lasky | Film by Method

Season 6

SEASON 6
PRODUCED IN PARTNERSHIP WITH THE VIDA: WOMEN IN LITERARY ARTS,
THIS SEASON FEATURES A LINEUP OF ALL FEMALE POETS.

Crows, Reckoning | Poem by Jessica Goodfellow | Film by Commandr

Cigar Box Banjo | Poem by Kim Addonizio | Film by Danny Madden

I'm Over the Moon | Poem by Brenda Shaughnessy | Film by Jessica Hundley

Once | Poem by Meghan O'Rourke | Film by Angela & Ithyle

How Not to Need Resurrection | Poem by Michalle Gould | Film by Diego V. Lozano & Statten Roeg

Falling Lessons: Erasure One | Poem by Beth Copeland | Film by Anh Vu

The Long Deployment | Poem by Jehanne Dubrow | Film by Nicole McDonald

Undersong | Poem by Stacey Lynn Brown | Film by Matt Smithson

Triolet for Laika, First Dog in Space | Poem by Ann Eichler Kolakowski | Film by Emory Allen

At Thirty | Poem by Paula Bohince | Film by Thibault Debaveye

I Ate the Cosmos for Breakfast | Poem by Melissa Studdard | Film by Dan Sickles

Creased Map of the Underworld | Poem by Kim Addonizio | Film by Thomas Bryan Michurski

The Mother Warns the Tornado | Poem by Catherine Pierce | Film by Isaac Ravishanara

A Day at the Mall Reminds Me of America | Poem by Sarah Blake | Film by Ayse Altinok

Season 5

SEASON 5
CO-PRODUCED WITH BEST AMERICAN POETRY

Wayne the Stegosaurus | Poem by Kenn Nesbitt | Film by Aran Quinn & Jeffrey Dates (The Mill)

Postcard to My Third Crush Today | Poem by Sean Hill | Film by Sam Hoolihan

Antique Sound | Poem by W.S. Merwin | Film by Evan Holm

Talking Points (Eggheads) | Poem by John Koethe | Film by Rob Perez

Western Civilization | Poem by Peter Jay Shippy | Film by Alicia Reece

The Imagined | Poem by Stephen Dunn | Film by Matt Craig

All American | Poem by David Hernandez | Film by Richard Johnson

Jung / Malena / Darwin | Poem by Albert Goldbarth | Film by Chris Jopp

When the Men Go Off to War | Poem by Victoria Kelly | Film by Noah Dorsey

This Is Not a Fairytale | Poem by Laura Kasischke | Film by Laurent Barthelemy & Shizuka Kusayanagi

Albert Einstein | Poem by Matthew Zapruder | Film by John Akre

The Ring-Toss Lady Breaks a Five | Poem by Mark Kraushaar | Film by Stefan Lessard & Fred Schroeder

Stupid Sandwich | Poem by Nathan Anderson | Film by Carolyn Figel & Andrew Montague

Working Order | Poem by Dora Malech | Film by William Campbell & Will Johnson

Season 4

SEASON 4
CO-PRODUCED WITH BEST AMERICAN POETRY, COPPER CANYON PRESS,
GRAYWOLF PRESS, AND MILKWEED EDITIONS

The Painter | Poem by Dobby Gibson | Film by Mark Rubbo

Lisp of Cloud | Poem by Leila Wilson | Film by David P. Hanson

Spirit in the Dark | Poem by Robert Gibb | Film by Tom Jacobsen

Circles in the Sky | Poem by Bob Hicok | Film by Keri Moller

Historical Fragment | Poem by Éireann Lorsung | Film by Pablo Delcan

Either Or | Poem by Maxine Kumin | Film by Adam Tow

The Dream | Poem by Tishani Doshi | Film by Babe Elliott Baker

The Mysterious Arrival of an Unusual Letter | Poem by Mark Strand | Film by Scott Wenner

Discharged Into Clouds | Poem by Dean Young | Film by Angela Kassube

SEASON 3

Season 3

Having Intended to Merely Pick on An Oil Company, the Poem Goes Awry | Poem by Bob Hicok | Film by Joanna Kohler

French Movie | Poem by David Lehman | Film by Scott Wenner

Snow | Poem by James Longenbach | Film by Deb Kirkeeide

Just As, After a Point, Job Cried Out | Poem by K.A. Hays | Film by Angella Kassube & Emma Burghardt

Andrew Wyeth, Painter, Dies at 91 | Poem by L.S. Klatt | Film by Tom Jacobsen

The Poem of the Spanish Poet | Poem by Mark Strand | Film by Juan Delcan

Ecclesiastes 11:1 | Poem by Richard Wilbur | Film by Faith Eskola

The Cloudy Vase | Poem by Jane Hirshfield | Film by Scott Olson & Jeff Saunders

Thoreau and the Lighting | Poem by David Wagoner | Film by Adam Tow

The Pilgrim is Bridled and Bespectacled | Poem by Bridget Lowe | Film by Angella Kassube

Cogitatio Mortis | Poem by Eric Pankey | Film by Scott Olson

When at A Certain Party in NYC | Poem by Erin Belieu | Film by Amy Schmitt

Season 2

SEASON 2

The Trees—They Were Once Good Men | Poem by Todd Boss | Film by Emma Burghardt

An Elm We Lost | Poem by Marvin Bell | Film by Antonio Cicarelli

Render, Render | Poem by Thomas Lux | Film by Angella Kassube

Karl | Poem by Dag Straumsvåg | Film by Scott Wenner

Don't Be Flip | Poem by Todd Boss | Film by Angella Kassube

Old Astronauts | Poem by Tim Nolan | Film by Emma Burghardt

My Love for You Is So Embarrassingly | Poem by Todd Boss | Film by Deb Kirkeeide & Jesse Marks

The Watcher of Vowels | Poem by Robert Bly | Film by Matt Van Ekeren, Catalina Kulczar-Marin, & Carly Zuckweiler

SEASON 1

Season 1

Swimming in the Rain | Poem by Freya Manfred | Film by Gregory Winter

Swimming Into Winter | Poem by Freya Manfred | Film by Gregory Winter

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

Wanting Sumptuous Heavens | Poem by Robert Bly | Film by Angella Kassube

Icicles | Poem by Todd Boss | Film by Michael Guncheon & Ren O'Brien

Constellations | Poem by Todd Boss | Film by Angella Kassube

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