This year the Midwest Video Poetry Fest will showcase a live filmmaker and poet collaboration on Saturday, October 22 at 5:30pm. The event will feature live video mixing from local film and video artists Luke Bassuener, Aaron Granat and James Kreul, providing images to poems by Philip Matthews, Sasha Debevec-McKenney, and Dana Maya. Free admission.
Poems will be read by the poets in person.
Phillip Matthews & Luke Baussuener
"Stood Up"
"The Neck"
"Fire, Earth, Water, Air"
"Radii"
"Dog"
"Bed"
"Open Season"
Sasha Debevec-McKenney & James Kreul
"YOUR BRAIN IS NOT A PRISON!"
"FOR THE RECORD I REALLY WISH I TALKED LESS BUT I LITERALLY CANNOT HELP IT"
"PRAYER POEM"
"STAND UP ROUTINE"
Dana Maya & Aaron Granat
"Nochebuena"
"Names for Her"
"Wow in Sign Language"
"Telling My Mothers"
"Please Refuse the Compliment"