Video Poems

  • A revised video poem for the poem "This is Just to Say". I switched imagery and also added some more audio. I wanted to try something out of the box and go…

  • My poem is from the perspective of a mother who's child endures physical struggles as a result of his seizures. And throughout the poem she speaks in many…

  • To revise my poem, I decided to get rid of the change in tone halfway and stick to the original, calming theme. I also made edits to the text display and…

  • This poem is by Mary Elizabeth Frye. The speaker in the poem is someone who has passed away and is asking the mourners not to cry. In this video I …

  • This is an e-poem of the "The Sky" by Alfred Kreymborg. The text is rather metaphorical, but I use a mix of still images and short video clips to illustrate…

  • Fire and Ice is a poem by Robert Frost that is focused on two elements of nature, fire and ice, that are a polar opposites yet have the same destructive…

  • Elaine Equi's "Earth, You Have Returned to Me" is a poem that describes the struggles one faces when overcoming an addiction. This video shares a first-…

  • The Rose Family final video poem. 

English 149 Networked and Multimedia Writing

For my revision I spent a majority of my time on the selection of the video clips and the edits I did to make the clips really impact the poem. A major flaw of my poem draft was the timing of the clips and the words. To fix this but keep the original tempo that I intended was to make the clips…

For my video, I decided to use dancing videos to portray a somewhat deep and personal poem by Selena Odom. I revised my e-poem by using multiple dancers from multiple videos, as well as modifying the text to be similar in every clip. I hope it has a bigger impact, for it is inspired by a family…