The world is moving at lightning speed, and art is moving with it. So ready your pens and your cameras! Heartbeats: Visual Verse is where poetry meets movement, ink meets the screen. We're looking for submissions that platform original writing (narrated over original footage) that holds up its own in written form but has been developed into something more through the power of film. Think visuals that enchant us and spirit us away into your world. Think words that move, shake, scream. (Well, not literally — we don't want to lose our ears yet — but you get the point!) 

We are not looking for videos based on previously published poets or videos that use any footage or audio that could be liable for copyright issues. We want your original work. We want pieces where the words and the visuals meld into each other and in so doing, bring forth something more than they could have as individual works. We want the stark movement of your words, the heartbeat of your visuals. Above all, we want something that is a sensory delight. 

Heartbeats: Visual Verse accepts poetry (in video form) of up to 150 seconds in any language (as long as the video contains a translation) on any topic. We pay a flat fee of $25 after the work has been posted to our site.

Note: We are NOT looking for visual or concrete poetry (where words are arranged on the page to form images, sometimes accompanied by art). Please refrain from submitting videos that depict gratuitous violence, gore, and the like. We are seeking audio-visual poetry, so please submit your piece as either .m4v or .mp4 files with captions without credits of any kind.