In May, Unshod Quills put forth a special call for submissions of video poetry. Here are our favorites. For more video poems, see also the work of this month’s featured artist – Joseph Taylor Golding, an autistic American filmmaker.
Zachary Schomburg
Your Limbs Will Be Torn Off In a Farm Accident –
[vimeo http://vimeo.com/4349536]
Cold
[vimeo http://vimeo.com/2969605]
Portland poet Zachary Schomburg illustrates Portland poet Emily Kendal Frey’s “Cold.”
Cello by Elinor Frey.
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Mary Ann Sullivan
This Magisters Know –
A digital poem
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zghiPJxE8l0&feature=youtu.be]
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Jillian Brall and Viv G
A Woman
[vimeo http://vimeo.com/27021986]
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Viv G and Dena Rash Guzman
The Sky in Five Seasons –
(some field notes from a year in rural northwestern America)
[vimeo http://vimeo.com/27647394]
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Artist Biographies
Zachary Schomburg
Zachary Schomburg is the author of The Man Suit (Black Ocean 2007), Scary, No Scary (Black Ocean 2009), a dvd of poem films, Little Blind Thing (Poor Claudia 2010), two forthcoming books, Fjords and The Book of Joshua, and several small press chapbooks. He co-edits Octopus Magazine and Octopus Books. He lives in Portland, Ore, where he co-curates the Bad Blood Reading Series.
Emily Kendal Frey
Emily Kendal Frey is the author of AIRPORT (Blue Hour 2009), FRANCES (Poor Claudia 2010), and THE NEW PLANET (Mindmade Books 2010) as well as four chapbook collaborations. Her first full-length collection, THE GRIEF PERFORMANCE, was published by Cleveland State University Poetry Center in 2011. She lives in Portland, Oregon.
Mary Ann Sullivan
The New York Times called Mary Ann Sullivan first novel, Child of War, set in Belfast, Northern Ireland, “an earnest first novel,” and that book was named a Notable Book in Social Studies by the National Council of Social Studies and Children’s Book Council. Her poetry has been published online at the BBC Arts Online and BlazeVox, her literary interviews and commentaries at places such as Jacket and The Poetry Library, Southbank Centre, London. Her digital poetry has been recently featured at Mezzo Cammin online. She edits The Tower Journal.
Jillian Brall
Jillian Brall is a poet, visual artist and musician, living in Brooklyn, NY. She co-edits the online journal, Lyre Lyre.
Viv G
Find out more about Viv at www.vivg.com.
Dena Rash Guzman
Author and poet Dena Rash Guzman lives on a farm outside Portland, Oregon. She is the editor of Unshod Quills.