MAKING VIDEO POEMS THAT REALLY WORK ( Group Home )

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I am a widely published poet (with 7 collections of written poetry and 7 CDs of oral poetry). I have been making video poems since 2002. I have won many prizes and honors for these video poems despite the fact that the academic poetry community does not recognize them at all. I have gone through several evolutions in the past 6 years that have resulted in the type of video poems in MY MEDIA. There are hundreds more on youtube under soulspeakspring. I AM STILL EVOLVING. You can check me out as a poet at : http://justin-soulspeak.blogspot.com you can check out my VIDEO thinking at: http://soulspeakspring.blogspot.com I would like to start a discussion aimed at taking full advantage of the video medium. What I see right now on POETRY VISUALIZED are video poems that still have one foot in the written world and only 1/2 FOOT IN the AUDIO/VISUAL world. THE OTHER 1/2 FOOT IS LOST SOMEWHERE IN THE CONFUSION. I have been thru the stages most of you are currently in, AND WOULD BE GLAD TO PASS ON WHAT I KNOW, AND TO HEAR YOUR OWN THINKING. TAKE A LOOK AT MY VIDEOS. IF THEY APPEAL TO YOU LET'S TALK. IF THEY DON'T, THAT IS OK TOO. JUSTIN SPRING SOULSPEAKSPRING

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