Resources
Armstrong, James, Peter Lutze, and Laura Woodworth-Ney. “VideoPoetry: Integrating Video, Poetry and History in the Classroom.” The International Journal of the Arts in Society: Annual Review 3, no. 5 (January 2009), 53-66. Accessed May 4, 2024. Doi: 10.18848/1833-1866/cgp/v03i05/35517. This is a good how-to resource that outlines the steps the authors used to create a video poem. The authors provide resources for using this activity with students, such as checklists, a self-evaluation form, and a rubric.
Brooklyn College Film Department. “Film Term Glossary,” n.d. http://userhome.brooklyn.cuny.edu/anthro/jbeatty/COURSES/glossary.htm. The Brooklyn College Film Department provides this list of film terms and definitions which helps both students and teachers discuss and write about videopoems.
Brooks, Gwendolyn. “We Real Cool.” Poetry Foundation. June 6, 2017. Video, 5:59. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0USvSvhue70. This videopoem is an example of cin(e)poetry which superimposes the text of the poem over animations and music.
Delaware Department of Education. “State Report Cards.” Delaware Department of Education. Accessed May 27, 2024. https://reportcard.doe.k12.de.us/detail.html#aboutpage?scope=school&district=31&school=170. The Delaware Department of Education provides statistics on the racial and socioeconomic breakdown of the state’s public schools based on information gathered in September of each school year.
Gallagher, Tess. “Choices.” From Midnight Lantern: New and Selected Poems. Motionpoems and the Poetry Foundation. July 14, 2017. Video, 6:12. https://www.poetryfoundation.org/video/142662/choices. This visual text poem contains no music or narration, just sound effects and images with the words of the poem displayed on the screen.
Imarishi, Walida, “Wade in the Water.” July 2, 2015. Video, 4:19. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DJgpkalWSKE. An example of the performance type of videopoetry, Imarisha’s poem critiques both the federal government’s response to Hurricane Katrina and the new media’s racially biased coverage of the hurricane and its aftermath.
Kaplan, Sandra, Guzman, Irene, and Tomlinson, Carol Ann, eds. Using the Parallel Curriculum Model in Urban Settings, Grades K-8. Thousand Oaks: Corwin Press, 2009. Accessed July 26, 2024. ProQuest Ebook Central. This text is a reference for teachers interested in learning more about the Parallel Curriculum Model (PCM) and its application in an urban setting.
Konyves, Tom. “Videopoetry: A Manifesto.” Critical Inquiry, October 2012. This text defines videopoetry and explains the five subtypes. It also explains the effect of various videopoetry techniques and how they compare to traditional poetic techniques.
Light Up Poole. Blue Flash Flash - Film Poem by Jane Glennie, 2018. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=flhr-OWrGuM. This engaging, 40-second videopoem is performed in one breath and represents the moment a young child learns a word. It is an engaging hook for the unit.
Melhem, D.H. Gwendolyn Brooks: Poetry and the Heroic Voice. Lexington: The University Press of Kentucky, 2014. muse.jhu.edu/book/37108. Melham provides an analysis of Gwendolyn Brooks’s poems, including “We Real Cool”.
Moran, Matthew. “Wading through the Flood: The Transcultural Counterwitness, Hurricane Katrina, and Video Poetry.” Papers on Language and Literature 58, no. 2 (Spring, 2022): 135-164,233. https://www.proquest.com/scholarly-journals/wading-through-flood-transcultural-counterwitness/docview/2723568672/se-2. In this critical article, Moran gives context for Imarisha’s performance poem “Wade in the Water” and puts it in conversation with one of Claudia Rankine’s Situation poems.
Moten, Fred. Black and Blur. Consent Not to Be a Single Being, v. [1]. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2017. In this theoretical work, Moten develops his theory of Black aesthetics and ruminates on the role of suffering in Black art.
Oczkus, Lori, and Rasinski, Timothy. Close Reading with Paired Texts Secondary: Engaging Lessons to Improve Comprehension. Huntington Beach, CA: Shell Educational Publishing, 2018. Accessed July 12, 2024. ProQuest Ebook Central. This practical guide for teachers defines close reading and explains how to use it in the secondary classroom.
Payne, Alexander. “Equitable Access for Underrepresented Students in Gifted Education.” Reports - Descriptive, George Washington University Center for Equity and Excellence in Education, 2011. This study quantifies the underrepresentation of minority groups in gifted education and explains some of the reasons behind the trend.
Price, Kenneth M. “Walt Whitman and Civil War Washington.” Civil War Washington. Accessed July 14, 2024. https://civilwardc.org/interpretations/narrative/wwacw.php. This internet article, originally published in Civil War Washington: History, Place, and Digital Scholarship, ed. Susan C. Lawrence (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2015), explains Walt Whitman’s experiences and views on the Civil War.
Rankine, Claudia. “From Citizen: Situation 7.” American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Accessed July 13, 2024. https://www.amacad.org/mixtape/claudia-rankine-citizen-video. One of several videpoems in a series, Rankine and John Lucas’s collaboration combines sound text and kinetic text to examine an everyday example of racial bias playing out on a train.
Renzulli, J. S. (2011). What Makes Giftedness?: Reexamining a Definition. Phi Delta Kappan, 92(8), 81-88. https://doi.org/10.1177/003172171109200821. In contrast to outdated and elitist conceptions of giftedness based solely on an IQ test score, Renzulli defines giftedness in this article as a combination of above-average intelligence, task commitment, and creativity. While intelligence is one component, it is not the sole determining factor.
Song of America. “The Shift to the Concert Stage: ‘Wade in the Water’ and the American Spiritual.” Accessed July 26, 2024. https://songofamerica.net/essays/the-shift-to-the-concert-stage-wade-in-the-water-and-the-american-spiritual/. This article gives a brief history of the spiritual “Wade in the Water” which Imarisha alludes to in the title of her performance poem.
Whitman, Walt. “Multitudes.” From Song of Myself. Manual Cinema and the Poetry Foundation, read by Kaveh Akbar, Duriel E. Harris, and Yusef Komunyakaa. May 20, 2019. Video, 6:32. https://www.poetryfoundation.org/video/150022/multitudes. Another contribution from the Poetry Foundation, “Multitudes” is a sound text rendering of excerpts from Walt Whitman’s Song of Myself.
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