AWP – Cadence 2025: Videopoetry 101 [In-Person Offsite]
Free to attend for AWP-goers!
In-person day pass > ($25)
About the program:
(75 min)
Videopoetry 101: Merged Mediums & New Possibilities
A videopoem is an accessible tool for media literacy and creative expression. The poetic thrives in the associative leaps between image, audio, and text, providing a dynamic platform for cultural impact. Three writers present guiding principles for making, teaching, distributing, and curating videopoems, from what they are and where to start, to practical pedagogy, to how videopoetry sets educators, students, artists, and audiences up to engage with and integrate the power of the written word.
Panelist Bios:
Amaranth Borsuk
Amaranth Borsuk’s most recent book is The Book (MIT Press, 2018). Previous works include Pomegranate Eater, Handiwork, and a number of collaborative books and projects. She is an associate professor at the University of Washington, Bothell, and teaches in their MFA in Creative Writing and Poetics.
Shin Yu Pai
Shin Yu Pai was civic poet of Seattle (2023–2024) and poet laureate of Redmond (2015–2017). She has taught at Vermont College of Fine Arts, University of Texas at Dallas & Southern Methodist University. Her poem films have screened at Cadence, Zebra Poetry Festival, and other international venues.
Rana San
Rana San is an intermedia artist, choreographer, writer, and curator. Her practice centers experimental and analog approaches to storytelling through film, writing, and movement presented on screen and stage. Based between Seattle and Istanbul, she codirects Cadence Video Poetry Festival.
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