Vox shows were an opportunity to transform poems from text into videos. Many of our shows included my poems accompanied by creative montages, enlarging the capacity of language with images assembled from hundreds of sources. I’m so grateful for the collaboration with radical videographers to deepen the meaning & vision of poetry as a powerful, visual stream for the minds-eye. For the lions’ share of this effort I bow to Levi Arithson for years of hard work and genius.
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Cornography
This poem examines the wildly expanding universe of corn. It was inspired by Michael Pollen’s “The Omnivore’s Dilemna”. Video by Levi Arithson, Scissortail Productions.
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The Source
From Civil Lies, 2006
This piece asks the question, to whom are we responsible for our lives —Capitalism or The Earth? Video by Levi, Avery, and Joy.
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The Dumpster DivA
From The Fabulous Freakshow, 2007
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The Tipping Point
From Chaos in Cupcake-land, 2006
This video explores the early century’s peoples’ movements of Mexico and South America, highlighting their radical experiments to replace neo-liberal capitalism with collective values and indigenous forms of social and economic organization. Video by Levi Arithson.
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