“-Ship: A Visual Poem,” director Terrance Daye’s timely short about identity and masculinity in the Black community, won the Industry Award at TheWrap’s ShortList Film Festival on Thursday. “-Ship” ...

Filmmaker Ava DuVernay counts herself as one of the many people inspired by W.J. Lofton’s powerful visual poem “We Ask For Fire”—in which he repeats the words, “the cops who murdered Breonna Taylor ...

NEW HAVEN, CT — Monica Ong is a 21st-century visual poet who extends the reader’s sense of what is possible. She is the author of Silent Anatomies (Kore Press, 2014), which renowned poet Joy Harjo ...

This week, local graphic designer, electronic musician and Charleston’s poet laureate Marcus Amaker shared a recent poem from his latest collection of poetry, The Birth of All Things, “The America I ...

"Remember the sky you were born under. Know each of the star's stories..." This is a must watch 3-minute visual poem short film from the Sun Valley Writers' Conference 2021. They commissioned a set of ...

The written word frequently stimulates the creation of visual art and visual art often acts as a muse for the written word. The Lakeshore Artists Guild and Basil Ishkabibble's Art Gallery in Two ...

Like many people, poet Holly Lyn Walrath created all kinds of visual art as a kid in school. Drawings, finger paintings — you name it. But, like many of us do as we grow up, she abandoned it after ...

Students are typically exposed to historical or current events by reading expository or narrative texts written by journalists, historians or textbook authors. This lesson adds poetry, and the new ...

When winter comes, the world holds its breath. Snow drapes the earth in silence, and light softens like a secret kept close. Let yourself be still, let yourself listen — the quiet of winter speaks ...

Filmmaker Ava DuVernay counts herself as one of the many people inspired by W.J. Lofton’s powerful visual poem “We Ask For Fire”—in which he repeats the words, “the cops who murdered Breonna Taylor ...

Arrange for students to share their poetry with one another and also with classmates or community members outside the classroom. Prior to beginning the lesson, have students analyze a poem depicting ...