Category: Videos
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A LETTER TO MY DOG, EXPLORING THE HUMAN CONDITION – Andrea Gibson
“Humans hold so tight to the leash of life, but you will roll in anything dead and wear it like perfume.” – Andrea Gibson
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Coin Purse – video poem
Coin Purse from Rachel Van Blankenship on Vimeo. My latest video poem. It’s still in the works, I think, but I’ll figure out this whole movie making thing eventually… Enjoy!
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"Love Story" Video Poem
Love Story from Rachel Van Blankenship on Vimeo. This is my first attempt at a video poem sans Claire. So hopefully as I do more, I’ll get better and HOPEFULLY I’ll get a real camera someday instead of having to use my phone, but this’ll do. I’m finding myself taking random little videos for no…
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The real Dorothy and Toto
My parents’ house was 8 miles west of the tornado. 8 miles. And in between the super cell and our front door is the nursery where my mom got her oak trees, the sonic where she introduced me to their god-sent onion rings, the grocery store where she complained once (being the recent Californian transplant…
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Slack Tide – A Rachel/Claire collaboration
SLACK TIDE | Rachel van Blankenship from Claire Beynon on Vimeo. Claire created this wonderful video of my reading “Slack Tide” Go to her blog as well as she writes a beautiful story of how it all came together… Thank you, Claire.
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"When Brave Bird Saved" Short Film
This is one of the most beautiful things I’ve seen in a while. We need more of this in the world.
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Bluebird
My friend, Lindsey is in grad school and did this video project for class. It’s just a simple, beautiful little video and she’s reading my poem Bluebird which has a lot of meaning for both of us. It’s pretty cool to hear someone else reading one of my poems. I really want to start doing…
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Surgery (Audio)
I’m hoping to maybe make some video poems in the future, but for now here’s some audio of a newly hatched poem I posted yesterday. Surgery