Poetry Expo 23
/ 23 February 2023
ZEBRA Poetry Film Festival – Best Of (No. 6 & 7)
No Words & If 2017 was a poem title
Poetry Expo 23
Title: No Words (2020)
Director: Mariam Al-Dhubhani
Country: England, Qatar, Yemen
Poet: Ahmed Abdul Raqeeb Alkhulaidi
Poem: No Words
Taiz, Yemen, today: fish-eye photos like the ones taken by drones or surveillance cameras, rounded to geometric shapes. Half-finished houses with people walking among them, sitting on doorsteps. As a counterpoint, lines of poetry on that which cannot be said.
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Title: If 2017 was a poem title (2020)
Director: Matthew Thompson
Country: United States
Poet: Mahogany L. Browne
Poem: If 2017 was a poem title
Spoken Word piece by Mahogany L. Browne about the never-ending impacts of racism and social injustice. Forcefully performed with maximum style in Midtown Manhattan, the fortress of white money.
Internationals short films based on poems that show what opportunities are available.
The project is part of the subtheme Opportunity.
Author
Haus für Poesie
Since its foundation in 1991, the Haus für Poesie, formerly the Literaturwerkstatt Berlin, has been promoting and supporting all areas of literature, but especially poetry, both as the written word and in conjunction with other art forms and media. Its work has focused exclusively on poetry since 2000. It is the venue where contemporary poetry in all its diversity of forms is showcased and discussed.
