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 ...

“-Ship: A Visual Poem,” director Terrance Daye’s timely short about identity and masculinity in the Black community, won the Industry Award at TheWrap’s ShortList Film Festival on Thursday. “-Ship” ...

"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 ...

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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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, ...

Students are typically exposed to historical or current events by reading expository or narrative texts written by journalists, historians or textbook authors. This lesson adds poetry, and the new ...

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 ...

In his 1974 anthology Revolution of the World: A New Gathering of American Avant Garde Poetry 1914–1945, Jerome Rothenberg introduced American poet Bob Brown to those of us of a certain generation, ...

Arrange for students to share their poetry with one another and also with classmates or community members outside the classroom. Prior to beginning the lesson, have students analyze a poem depicting ...

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 ...