Poets & Writers Theater

“They say time turns hawkish, that you feel it like a wing crossing over you.” In this Single Sentence Animation for Electric Literature, a sentence from Jenny Offill’s short story “The Tunnel” is animated by Luca DiPierro.

Melissa Faliveno, associate editor of Poets & Writers Magazine, talks with the editors of five independent presses about the kind of work they look to publish and the relationships they cultivate with their authors. Panelists include Abigail Beckel of Rose Metal Press, Robert Giron of Gival Press, Andy Hunter of Black Balloon Publishing and Electric Literature, Kimberly Steele of Augury Books, and Kathleen Wheaton of Washington Writers' Publishing House.

In this short film presented by Electric Literature, a sentence from Etgar Keret's short story "Todd" is animated by Tatia Rosenthal and set to music by Christopher Bowen. Keret's new memoir, The Seven Good Years, was published this month by Riverhead Books and is featured in Page One in the current issue of Poets & Writers Magazine.

In this Single Sentence Animation for Electric Literature, Martha Colburn animates "Human Events" by Stephen O'Connor. Music by Thollem McDonas.

"As if huddled on some high plain, surrounded by the sound of distantly beating drums, telling myself, 'Well, this is it.'" In this Single Sentence Animation for Electric Literature, Bianca Stone animates "Flower Box" by A-J Aronstein.

In this Electric Literature video, Adam Thompson animates a single, serpentine but elegant sentence describing a bleak vision of the future imagined by Helen Phillips in “The Knowers.” Music by Nathan Thompson.

In this Single Sentence Animation from Electric Literature, Donna K. animates the following sentence, from "Valentine" by Alexander Yates: "From that perspective, the heart must look enormous, she thinks—it must loom."

In this Single Sentence Animation from Electric Literature, James Willoughby animates the following sentence, from "Orange" by Tarah Scalzo: "Everyone knows a snow leopard is magical."

In this Single Sentence Animation from Electric Literature, Suneet Sethi animates the following sentence, from "Angel Lust" by Maggie Shipstead: "Her mascara, running down her smooth, downy cheeks, made her look like a tragic urchin, a child whore, Brooke Shields in Pretty Baby, Jodi Foster in Taxi Driver."

In this animation for the free fiction magazine Recommended Reading, Myles David Jewell animates the following sentence from "Tributaries" by Ramona Ausubel: "Though the girls know many two-armers, even some that seem happy and in love, what they talk about are those with love-grown arms."

In this animation for Electric Literature's Recommended Reading, Gretta Johnson animates a sentence from "Hello Everybody" by A. M. Homes, with music by Micheal Asif.

In this video for Electric Literature's Recommended Reading, Erin Smith animates and scores a sentence from "Recovery" by Helen DeWitt, set to music by Spookfish. Here's the sentence: "Um, okay, no, not purring like, obviously, producing a sound that is more reminiscent of steam engine FX than your typical purr."

In this video for Electric Literature's Recommended Reading, Luca Dipierro animates and scores a sentence from "The Devil's Treasure" by Mary Gaitskill. The sentence: "Meanwhile, women came flying at him, loving him, swarming like hornets, beautiful with love, drunk with love, near-crazy with love, sick with it, buzzing all around him, looking for the beautiful soul the sensed unerringly."

In this video for Electric Literature's free fiction magazine, Recommended Reading, Sarah Bodil animates a sentence from "The Adventure of the Space Traveler" by Seth Fried, who was featured in last year's First Fiction Annual for this debut story collection, The Great Frustration.

Brock Davis animates "OK" by Matt Sumell in Electric Literature's latest Single Sentence Animation.

In Electric Literature's latest Single Sentence Animation, Jason Mitcham animates a sentence from Marc Basch's "Three," a story published in Issue 6. Music by Meredith Varn.

Electric Literature's latest Single Sentence Animation takes a hallucinatory turn as Steve Edwards writes, "The doctors say we're still functioning at the same cognitive level on mental tests, but it doesn't feel right to read a book when all you really want to do is eat it."

The latest Single Sentence Animation from Electric Literature features a line from Nathan Englander's "The Reader" and animation by Drew Christie.

Electric Literature's latest single sentence animation is Lynne Tillman's "The Original Impulse," animated by Monica Garrison and scored by Andrei Pohorelsky. Tillman's story is published in the fifth issue of Electric Literature.