March mad in February
Ma’s temper heats the window.
A flutter of juncos alight
Plying the bare limbed willow
Like a lyre
Fawn, dove, hare
Sheltered in cedar shade
Frightened still.
Bonded in blarney
She’d weaned me
On clever jive
My conception a farce
Life a fiction.
Let the need to know go
She repeated as if Buddha-wise.
Her demise should illuminate
Every secret, every corner
Every cowering tot
Lit by the pop and flash,
Truth, its triumph at last, though
Revelation offers no resolution.
We are all stories in the end.
Born wrong, he got me right
Celebrates my fanny
Charms, trailer windows, black mind
For comedy. Gutterized beau
Replete with affection disorder
Grog blossoms, cauliflower ear
For doggerel. Broken noise.
Bloviating Master of Ceremonies.
Glitterized stallions. Elastic pratfalls.
Nothing distracts from my To-Do List:
Test trapeze. Reform winter law.
Conduct gravity. Reorient.
Polish tinware. Flush away
Chimp guano. Marvel
At the mess we’ve made, beatify
Our radical slaphappy love
Bless big top bounty
The largesse of my longing.
Remember what matters.
Whew! Alright, announcing the 2013 Visible Verse Festival programme! As with last year, we recieved a record number of entries, over 200. The little festival that could keeps growing and like we always say, we’re proud to remain the sustaining venue in North America for artistically significant videopoetry and film. This year will be our 14th!
We received stellar works from South Africa, Thailand, Germany, Belgium, Portugal, Canada, the U.S, Ireland and the UK. With only one night of screenings, I am unable to include a lot of video poems I like.
Fortunately the program does include Literary Movement, a discussion with R.W. Perkins on the process of creating videopoems and the integration of modern filmmaking techniques, Q&A to follow. We will be screening his videopems Morning Sex & Blueberry Pancakes and Small Talk & Little Else. R.W. Perkins is a poet and filmmaker from Fort Collins, Colorado. His work has been published in the Atticus Review, Moving Poems, The Denver Egotist, The Connotation Press, and The Huffington Post Denver. Perkins’s work has been featured at film festivals all over the world, including an 18-state U.S. tour with the New Belgium Brewery’s Clips of Faith Beer & Film Tour in 2012 and at the ZEBRA Poetry Film Festival in Berlin, Germany. Perkins is also the creator and director of The Body Electric Poetry Film Festival, Colorado’s first poetry film festival, which held its inaugural event in May of this year. For more information on Perkins and his work, visit www.rw-perkins.com. We’re thrilled to have him!
The festival is Sat, Oct. 12 at the Cinematheque in Vancouver. My son has promised to edit a trailer for me, I’ll post it asap. *See* you there!
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Underground No One Famous/Blair Dykes Vancouver, BC 2011
Language of Desire Kathryn MacLean Edmonton, AB 2013
When Walt Whitman Was a Little Girl Jim Haverkamp Durham, NC 2012
Lapis and Centaurs Frank Müller Hamburg, Germany 2013
Something Keith Sargeant/Charles Bukowski poem London, UK 2012
Day Is Done Swoon Bildos Mechelen, Belgium 2012
Textual Assault Placards Wally Keeler Cobourg, ON 2012
Last Words of the Condemned Diane Arterian Los Angeles, CA 2013
‘1-poem-6’ Pablo López Jordan/Vangelis Skouras London, UK & Murcia, Spain
Like So Alan David Pritchard Isle of Wight, UK 2011
I thought I was more memorable James O Leary Cork, Ireland 2013
Camel Matt Robertson Vancouver, BC 2013
Suburban Sylph of Crying Owls Gavin Jones North Yorkshire, UK 2013
PDA Kal Estrel Kingston, UK 2012
Onion of Love Kirk Ramdath Calgary, AB
Covered In Grass Aaron Samuels Cranston, Rhode Island
expect something and nothing at once Michelle Elrick Winnipeg, MN
Morning Sex & Blueberry Pancakes R.W. Perkins Fort Collins, Colorado
INTERMISSION
On Meeting A Fox Janette Ayachi Edinburgh, Scotland
Full English Christopher Stewart Middlesbrough, UK
Not Death but Love: Tracing the Heart of Elizabeth Barrett Browning Gerard Wozek/Mary Russell
Chicago, IL
With Only My Hands Sergej Bezuglov/ Zakaryia Amatoya/Cece Nobre Bangkok, Thailand
Crow Morphologies Tara Flyn/Daniela Elza/Soressa Gardner Vancouver, BC 2013
Through The Eyes of the Wind Adam Jacobs/Forrest Casey Golden Valley, MN 2012
Futures of the Past Ray Hsu/Michael Parks/Chloe Chan Vancouver, BC 2013
To This Day Shane Koyzan Pentiction, BC 2013
Requiem for Lithium Jason Staggie Capetown, South Africa 2012
Small Talk & Little Else R.W. Perkins Fort Collins, Colorado 2013
Thief Behind The Mask CR Avery Vancouver, BC 2013
Love Gang Tara Evonne Trudell Las Vegas, NM
The Poet Is Artificially Removed Jordan Abel Vancouver, BC
I Love The Internet Kevin Barrington Dublin, Ireland
Rhythm of Structure John Sims New York, NY
Appraisal Melissa Diem Dublin, Ireland 2013
From Within Alexandre Braga Lisbon, Portugal 2013
Orange Taien Ng-Chan Montreal, QC 2005
Innisfree Don Carey (based on the WB Yeats poem) Dublin, Ireland 2013
