Below is a stellar new videopoem from MotionPoems. Watch, then read the text of Catherine Pierce's "The Mother Warns the Tornado". Pierce's wonderful poem captures beautifully the profound, visceral emotions a mother summons to protect her child, even against the ravages of nature.
The film was made by Isaac Ravishankara in partnership with VIDA: Women in Literary Arts.
Catherine Pierce and Isaac Ravishankara talk with Maggie Roy about the film.
Catherine Pierce is the author of the award-winning collection The Girls of Peculiar: Poetry (Saturnalia Books, 2012) and Famous Last Words (Saturnalia, 2008). Her third collection, The Tornado Is the World (Saturnalia), is due out in 2016.
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Amazing!
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