POEM-FILMS | Mini-DOCS

"Chatter" by Caroline Chavatel Appears in White Noise (GreenTower Press, 2019) First appeared in Cigar City Poetry Journal
"Landscape with Sage and the Names of My Children" by Keetje Kuipers from All Its Charms (BOA Editions, 2019) Film & Music by Joshua Young Photography by Cameron Currier, Chris Koser, Caleb Young, Joshua Young https://keetjekuipers.com/books/all-its-charms/ https://www.boaeditions.org/
Hence Poem-Film by Joshua Young Words by Jill McEldowney "Hence" first appeared in Foothill Literary Magazine (Fall 2018) and currently appears Air Above Ground (Finishing Line Press, 2018). https://www.finishinglinepress.com/product/airs-above-ground-by-jill-mceldowney/
Poem-film Poem by Stacey Lynn Brown Video/Sound by Joshua Young In celebration of Stacey Lynn Brown's second book of poems, The Shallows (Persea, October 2018)
"Wyoming" Tyler Truman Julian from Wyoming: The Next Question to Ask (to Answer) Finishing Line Press (Spring 2019) Words by Tyler Truman Julian Film & Music by Joshua Young Photography by Cameron Currier, Chris Koser, Caleb Young

girls their tongues by Abigail Zimmer (Orange Monkey Publishing 2017)

poem: "Reduce the Scene and Stage"

ED SMITH / PUNK ROCK IS COOL FOR THE END OF THE WORLD Poem-film by Joshua Young Footage from Gail Kaszynski's Fear of Poetry (Rough Cut), 1982 Photos by Christopher Cox, Gail Nettels, and Sheree Rose Poem read is from Ed Smith's Punk Rock is Cool for the End of the World: Poems and Notebooks of Ed Smith, specifically an excerpt from his poem Return to Lesbos Punk Rock is Cool for the End of the World Poems and Notebooks of Ed Smith Edited by David Trinidad Turtle Point Press, 2019 http://www.turtlepointpress.com https://www.amazon.com/Punk-Rock-Cool-End-World/dp/1885983670
"Outro" appears in Fail Better (Fog Machine, 2017)

Expedition Press Mini Doc Featuring Myrna Keliher Editor + Publisher, Expedition Press (www.expedition.press)

Quoted lines are from the poem “Reprieve” by @_jenny_george

Film by Joshua Young

(Current version was edited for AWP promotion)

Collected Voices in the Expanded Field is a collectively written novel composed of 34 unique voices from the expanded field. PAGE COUNT: 432 TABLE OF CONTENTS Chapter One: Mike Corrao Chapter Two: Grant Maierhofer Chapter Three: B.R. Yeager Chapter Four: Elisa Taber Chapter Five: Garett Strickland Chapter Six: Mónica Belevan Chapter Seven: Germán Sierra Chapter Eight: Judson Hamilton Chapter Nine: Rosie Šnajdr Chapter Ten: Tatiana Ryckman Chapter Eleven: Joshua Rothes Chapter Twelve: Ryan Napier Chapter Thirteen: Joshua Young Chapter Fourteen: Benjamin DeVos Chapter Fifteen: A.S. Coomer Chapter Sixteen: Nathan Dragon Chapter Seventeen: James Tadd Adcox Chapter Eighteen: Sean Kilpatrick Chapter Nineteen: Garrett Dennert Chapter Twenty: James Nulick Chapter Twenty-One: Christina Tudor-Sideri Chapter Twenty-Two: Ali Raz Chapter Twenty-Three: Vincent James Perrone Chapter Twenty-Four: Evan Isoline Chapter Twenty-Five: David Leo Rice Chapter Twenty-Six: Kenny Mooney Chapter Twenty-Seven: Tyler Crumrine Chapter Twenty-Eight: Arielle Tipa Chapter Twenty-Nine: Gary J Shipley Chapter Thirty: Adam Tedesco Chapter Thirty-One: Mike Kleine Chapter Thirty-Two: Jake Reber Chapter Thirty-Three: Candice Wuehle Chapter Thirty-Four: Andrew J. Wilt
Notes on a Past Life catalogs in "Trinidadian" detail an outsider's relationship to the insider world of New York City poetry-cutthroat parties, fragile egos, heartbreaking losses, as many endings as beginnings. Trinidad refuses the safe distance of "the speaker" in these autobiographical, intimate (sometimes searing) poems. This is a book for outsiders and insiders, for romantics and cynics.

Pretend Yr Happy: A Collaboration with Dark Sparkler

This film is from a collaborative experimental video + sound project with Dark Sparkler, a Seattle-based Modular Synthesizer composer. The project is a series of (relatively) short films built on layers of video + sound with a Synth soundtrack.

The video + sound (the diegetic portions of the project) were crafted from culling a decade’s worth of video + audio material from iPhones, cameras, and hard drives from Joshua Young’s archives. The video and audio were loaded into Premiere, separated from each other, and pieced together, layered, and cut based on a set of rules, process boundaries, and intentional constraints. The sound layers were adjusted simply with volume levels, the video layers were adjusted through opacity and filters.

The compositions/soundtrack (the non-diegetic portions of the project were made using various tactics and approaches with Modular Analog Synthesizers: long form patches with a Lyra-8; process original sound in real time through tape delay and using machine effects to manipulate the sound into melody or drone, using a stereo effect to produce seasickness, sound studies, doppler effects; tempo and reverb manipulation, and more .

Around half of the films for this project + Dark Sparkler composed after the video + sound was delivered, while the other half was crafted to based on Dark Sparkler’s compositions.

Appeared in Always Crashing October 2019

Published by The Continental Review - August 2019

Appeared Dead Alive Magazine January 2020

First published by Tupelo Quarterly - July 2019

 
 

 Pslams for the wreckage | video versions 

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PSALMS FOR THE WRECKAGE

A Poem-Film Series

Watch the entire series here:

CONTENTS:

18 "Dear Survivor" entries

+ When the Wolves Quit: A Poem Film

FEATURED BELOW:

ENTRY 1: Dear Survivors