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

Putting together as many POP submissions from as many contributors as possible - to reflect the variety of ordinary people interested in poetry. Whenever you submit a poetic recitation by a relative, an associate or a friend - I invite you to put that media in this group.

Here, more so of a poetic sense; is that of being an image created and or movie made has some thousands of words to describe it... this group will pick an image from or for each movie and then just one hundred words for each image added - not one more nor one less but 100 counted by spaces between... either submit a film and/or image and/or 100 words... this is the group that makes the 100 word connections