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This project successfully raised its funding goal on June 14, 2011.
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Get an "early-bird" subscription to our video podcast. When it launches this Fall, you'll be first in line!
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Get one VIP reservation for our fall premiere screening of 2011 Best American Poetry motionpoems at Open Book, Minneapolis, October 25, 2011. Add $20 to your pledge for each additional seat you would like. NOT IN MINNESOTA? Every pledge at this level is a bid for a screening in your area. Spread the word, and who knows? We may be thanking you in person at a theater near you!
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Get a hand-made, numbered, signed, limited-edition flip book of Todd Boss’s poem “God Flips.” Animation at its simplest! Add $15 for each additional flip book you would like. Makes great gifts!
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Get a hand-printed, numbered, signed, limited edition broadside poster of our current mantra, “Boil it down,” from “Render, Render,” by poet Thomas Lux, a 2010 motionpoem. The poster reads: "Boil it down, and plant as many kisses upon the world as the world can bear." Add $30 each additional poster. Add $15 ea. for flip books. (Posters won't ship till Fall 2011.)
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Get a DVD of completed 2011 motionpoems PLUS a paperback edition of Best American Poetry 2011. Add $30 ea. for posters. Add $15 ea. for flip books.
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NEW PLEDGE LEVEL Get a hand-pencilled 14x20 signed broadside of Todd Boss's poem, "The World Is in Pencil," forthcoming in POETRY magazine. Calligrapher: Emily J. Snyder, Queen Quills Calligraphy. See "update" tab above for further details. Add $30 ea. for posters. Add $15 ea. for flip books.
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A gift for your local library, school, or community center: one screening kit complete with DVD and discussion guide, licensed for one public event. Use it to promote poetry, inspire writers and students, and build community! Add $30 ea. for posters. Add $15 ea. for flip books.
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A closing “thanks” credit on a 2011 motionpoem, plus a flip book, poster, and early-bird podcast subscription. Plus DVD, flip book, poster, and subscription.
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A closing “producer” credit on a 2011 motionpoem, plus a flip book, poster, and early-bird podcast subscription.
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A closing “producer” credit on ALL 2011 motionpoems. Plus DVD, flip book, poster, and subscription.
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Motionpoems was co-founded in 2008 by Todd Boss and Angella Kassube.
Todd Boss’s poetry collections are YELLOWROCKET (Norton, 2008) and PITCH (Norton, 2012). His poems have appeared in POETRY, THE NEW YORKER, and BEST AMERICAN POETRY.
Angella Kassube is an art director and animator/designer at HDMG Post Design Audio & Effects in Minneapolis. She is also the curator of the HDMG Art Gallery which features local and national painters, sculptors, photographers and outsider artists.
Apologies for the delay in sending backer rewards! Broadsides were finished last week, flip books are at the printer now, DVDs will be made when the films are completed, and posters will be printed at the screening on October 25. Many backers opted for multiple items, so we're waiting to mail everything at once, probably in early November. We'll keep you posted. Thanks for your patience!
I gave a pledge and have been excited about this project and looking forward to receiving a flip book, but not one word. I'm wondering too what happened?
No, I don't recall getting the e-mail either, and I was beginning to wonder if this was a scam. Is anyone monitoring these messages, and addressing this issue?
Hello, fellow Kickstarters . . . I'm afraid I'm with Kimberlee: I didn't get the survey asking for my address information (unless it hit my junk mail or something). Did anyone else have this trouble?
Angella and Todd: Is there a way I can make sure that my address gets to you? So excited to support you folks and to see the results. Thank you!
Did anyone get the survey with the address info? I don't recall getting this.
Hi, Gina!
Yes, in an effort to save on postage and motionpower (!), we're consolidating shipments of flip books and other pledge rewards until our DVD and screening kit are completed and ready to mail. We have you down for a screening kit, flip book, and poster. You'll get them all sometime in November, we're guessing, since completed films won't be mastered to DVD till our screening event on October 25. We'll be in touch at that time. We know how you feel; we too can hardly wait. In the short term, we will also send you a request for your complete mailing address. I'll Update all backers about this today. Thanks for your prompt!
Cheers,
Angella and Todd
Has anyone received their pledge gift(s) yet? I am very excited to receive the screening kit, poster, and flip book. Are we supposed to wait until the final work is complete? I'm not sure how this works.
Congratulations to all of us! I can't wait to share these motionpoems with my sophomore students! What a joy! Will you be coming to Chicago?
"Thank you god for most this amazing day, for a true blue dream" of Motionpoems' funding coming through! (Apologies to the divine e.e. cummings). So proud to be a backer. And Na Zdrowie (a Polish toast)! And Kia Kaha (a Maori blessing to 'be strong'), Stephanie (a Polish New Zealander and budding, movingpoet).
so pleased to have had a tiny part in making this happen. well done!
Way to go, Angella and Todd! So exciting to see this blossom and grow.
Always a pleasure to back such an amazing project! Let me know if you get down to the wire. LOVE Motion Poems!
Love to see these mediums I care about enhance each other. Yes you can!
Innovative idea - I look forward to seeing it happen!
Great job! Wishing you luck.
jeff
Excitement and joy over this project. It's a crackling idea!
Pat Murphy Johnson