To see the Winning Videos from the 2003 Poetry in Motion® Pictures Contest, click here. To see the Winning Videos from the 2001 Poetry in Motion® Pictures Contest, click here.

Poetry in Motion® Pictures, a program of the Poetry Society of America, builds on the unprecedented success of Poetry in Motion®, the vital literary outreach program that places poetry posters in subways and buses in 10 cities across the country. Poetry in Motion® Pictures was launched in 2000 with a contest inviting New York-area graduate and undergraduate film students to produce cinematic interpretations of poems in the Poetry in Motion® Program.

THE WINNING POEMS FROM THE 2003 POETRY IN MOTION® PICTURES CONTEST Judges for the 2003 Poetry in Motion® Pictures competition were Mary Lea Bandy, Chief Curator, Department of Film and Media, The Museum of Modern Art; Garrison Botts, Producer of Reel/New York; Joan Hershey, Producer of MetroArts/Thirteen, and Arthur Penn, acclaimed director of Bonnie and Clyde, Little Big Man, and Alice's Restaurant.

View a small or large Quicktime version of Shaun Iron's film "Keeping Things Whole", based on the poem "Keeping Things Whole" by Mark Strand. Shaun Irons is a multi-disciplinary artist working in painting, collage, video, and sound. He is also a performer who has appeared with the Wooster Group and on numerous international tours. Irons and Lauren Petty, his co-director on "Keeping Things Whole", have been collaborating for more than five years. They were awarded a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship in Video in 2002 and recently received a grant from the Jerome Foundation for their new multiple-channel installation "Artificial Paradise." Lauren Petty is a video artist, editor, and teacher. She graduated from New York University's Gallatin School, where she earned an M.A. in Video Art and Performance. She currently teaches digital video production at various schools in New York City. View a small or large Quicktime version of Jonathan Calms's film "Delta", based on the poem "Delta" by Adrienne Rich. Born in Brooklyn, Jonathan Calm is a video artist inspired by the diverse stories unraveling on the streets and in the neighborhoods of New York City. He is represented by the Caren Golden Fine Art Gallery in Manhattan. Poetry in Motion® Pictures is made possible by support from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs Cultural Challenge Program, the Robert Sterling Clark Foundation, the McGraw Hill Companies, Inc., and Anna Rabinowitz.

THE WINNING POEMS FROM THE 2001 POETRY IN MOTION® PICTURES CONTEST Judges for the 2001 Poetry in Motion® Pictures competition were Arthur Penn, Mary Lea Bandy, Garrison Botts and Joan Hershey.

View a small or large Quicktime version of Jodi Kaplan's film "Wall", based on the poem "Wall" by Gabriel Mistral. Jodi Kaplan recently completed her MFA in film from Columbia University. Her films have screened at the Museum of Modern Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Brooklyn Museum of Art, MassMoCa and the Smithsonian Hirshhorn Museum. She has exhibited in such festivals as Seattle International Film Festival, American Dance Festival's Dance on Camera Festival and Flanders International Film Festival. Her films have received numerous awards, including Tomorrow's Cinema from Festival International du Brussels, the Silver Award for Experimental Films from the Nashville Independent Film Festival and the Bronze Award for Experimental Films from the Houston International Film Festival. View a small or large Quicktime version of Veena Sud's film "I Stop Writing the Poem", based on the poem "I Stop Writing the Poem" by Tess Gallagher. Veena Sud's award winning work has been exhibited throughout the United States and internationally, including such festivals as the Berlin International Film Festival, the Oberhausen Short Film Festival and the British Short Film Festival. She has received awards from the San Francisco Film Society, the American Film Institute-SONY and the Grand Prize at the 1994 Poetry Film and Video Festival. In 1998, she completed a year-long residency at the Whitney Museum of American Art's Independent Studio Program. Sud is a recent graduate of the New York University of Graduate Film and TV Program. She is currently directing MTV's The Real World. Poetry in Motion® Pictures was made possible by major grants from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs Cultural Challenge Program and The McGraw-Hill Companies. Additional support was provided by Frederick W. Beinecke, Michael Boyd, Joel Mallin, The Samuel H. Kress Foundation and The Prospect Hill Foundation. Post-production was provided by The Standby Program.