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I'm interested in creating a show/platform in which aspiring poets and video artists can combine their skills to make content related to, expanding upon, and/or manipulating existing poetry for visual consumption.

Essentially it's designed as a specific destination upload site for content creators and remixers frustrated with the general comments and lack of specific critique found by submitting most videos to YouTube or other similar sites, like Blip.tv, Bliptv.com, Revver, etc. A common problem is that videos about dogs wearing dresses or street fights, while prone to make me chuckle, unfortunately take popular precedence over less-popular, higher-quality artistic submissions, and this site will attempt to not only provide an exclusive space to highlight visual poetic experimentation, but will also focus on technical construction issues (technical, in this case, referring to grammatical form and syntax and content critique of original poetry as well as more pointed critique towards the visual process - would this be better with animation? Video? 3D? Too much detail? Too little?).

As the formal and informal critique are vital for any poet, visual or traditional, there would be professional poets available to e-mail or discuss within a scheduled forum to review and advise those who submit work of particular quality (though in the beginning, those with less experience will have a better chance at communicating with them). For beginners, there will be a step-by-step on how to use the site for their advantage, and an assortment of previous work to allow them some inspiration and a better idea on how to go about doing whatever is in their head.

There will not be an iron-clad format, as experimental poetry is just that, experimental. However, ideally there will be space on the page to upload text copy of the original poem, as well as descriptions of the visuals, and an area for links that inspired the poet that others can check. I'll be creating a sample video, along with a rough visual of the web page layout.

Sample User Web Page: VideoPoet.com

http://hobbes82.deviantart.com/art/VideoPoet-com-Layout-71558454

Sample Video: "The Snowman, Revisited"

http://jimsvideosweetness.blip.tv/file/450497/

Some related links:

http://www.dailymotion.com/tag/videopoetry - Examples of video poetry uploaded to general site

http://www.youtube.com/jpsipila - YouTube profile of video poetry artist

http://www.datawranglers.com/voices/poetryvideo/ - Blurb offering brief description of video poetry

http://www.poetryvideo.com/ - Search site for poetry, indicative of the problem of searching for specific video poetry sites

http://browse.deviantart.com/literature/poetry/artpoetry/?order=5 - Visual poetry (not necessarily video)

http://hobbes82.deviantart.com/art/Catharsis-54929473 - Example I created earlier of multimedia interactive Video Poetry (.SWF), which I'd like VideoPoet.com to be capable of showing. Most, if not all, other video upload sites will not accept .SWF files and thus prevent interactivity, which I think should be an option to explore.

http://www.poetry.com/ - Example of text poetry upload site, with the kind of resources and general information on the craft I'd like to extend to VideoPoet.com (though I've had a few of my poems removed from the site because of language and "offensive content" - my site will NOT monitor language or content, and will have a ratings system, so viewers can watch at their own risk).

http://videopoet.com/ - The domain name itself is free! This is indicative of a lack of specific visual, poetic upload sites, as similar names are also open.