REELpoetry – Dave Bonta https://davebonta.com multimedia poet from the sticks Fri, 24 Jan 2020 13:58:23 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://davebonta.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/cropped-IMG_4181-scaled-1-32x32.jpeg REELpoetry – Dave Bonta https://davebonta.com 32 32 43297170 Poesía sin fronteras / Poetry Without Borders screening: full program notes https://davebonta.com/2020/01/poesia-sin-fronteras-poetry-without-borders-screening-at-reelpoetry-houston-tx/ https://davebonta.com/2020/01/poesia-sin-fronteras-poetry-without-borders-screening-at-reelpoetry-houston-tx/#comments Sat, 25 Jan 2020 02:00:51 +0000 https://davebonta.com/?p=10253 Poesía sin fronteras poster

For those who aren’t at the REELpoetry festival in Houston this weekend — and for those who are and want more information — I’ve put all the films plus the text of my introductory remarks, links to and thoughts from the other filmmakers, etc. into a permanent page at Moving Poems Magazine. Check it out.

subtitle of screening with a still from Ofertorio by Eduardo Yague

]]> https://davebonta.com/2020/01/poesia-sin-fronteras-poetry-without-borders-screening-at-reelpoetry-houston-tx/feed/ 1 10253 Videohaiku feature at Atticus Review + REELpoetry festival gig https://davebonta.com/2020/01/videohaiku-feature-at-atticus-review-reelpoetry-festival-gig/ Fri, 10 Jan 2020 21:01:58 +0000 https://davebonta.com/?p=10244 Some of my videohaiku, along with an artist’s statement, comprise the latest biweekly feature in the Mixed Media section of Atticus Review: Five Trains / Sea Levels. I’m honored to appear in one of the web’s two or three best homes for videopoetry in English, edited by Matt Mullins, himself a stand-out practitioner of the craft. I’d been reluctant to submit since I know Matt pretty well—I didn’t want to either presume on our friendship, or put him in the awkward spot of having to say no. (I’m told that’s not the way most poets operate, but whatever. Ambition is poison.) But when Matt solicited work, I sure wasn’t going to refuse!

That was several months ago; they have a long queue. Fortunately, my turn came up just in time to promote a program I’m giving as part of the 2020 REELpoetry festival in Houston, which takes place on the weekend of January 24-26. On Sunday, in lieu of a reading I’ll be showing a bunch of my videohaiku, and expanding on some of the thoughts in the Atticus Review essay.

The REELpoetry folks also have me giving the keynote address (gulp!) on Saturday, and I’ll be helping to kick things off on Friday night with a screening called Poesía sin fronteras / Poetry Without Borders focusing on Latin American poetry films, especially those that grew out of the online “Poetry from the Other Americas” group translation project back in 2015-16. Here’s a trailer:

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I’m also on the five-judge panel, and I can tell you that the competition films range all the way from great to spectacular. So why not spend a weekend watching poetry films in Houston, Texas? I’ll be the guy with the big, dark circles under his eyes from weeks of sleep deprivation.

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