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Update #6: Premiere successful | Rewards shipping / A new motionpoem for you

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Update #5: Your pledge reward

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Update #4: Cast party!

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Update #3: A great new pledge level!

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Update #2: Announcing our 2011 list!

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Funding Successful

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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58 Backers

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.

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