The ideal video poem gives the reader, now a viewer, a new experience of poetry through sonic and visual layering. The effect is not unlike that of a music video—and given how the invention of that medium, with its unique point of access and presentation, brought a new audience to music, the video poem may be ushering a whole new demographic to poetry. Here are six video poems that have been made available to a wide audience on YouTube.

"Reticent Sonnet" by Anne Carson

"Sonnet of Addressing Oscar Wilde" by Anne Carson

"Pleasurable Complexity" by Thylias Moss

"Verde: the greening of electrons" by Thylias Moss

"My Entrepreneurial Spirit" by Aaron Fagan

"Naked Leaf Dissolve" by Aaron Fagan