Hello! Which is the poem this short film was inspired on? Thank youuuu
The poem is Negative Space, originally published in the collection entitled Sex World.

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Hello! Which is the poem this short film was inspired on? Thank youuuu
The poem is Negative Space, originally published in the collection entitled Sex World.
Negative Space, the Oscar-nominated short film based on one of my poems, has finally been released for viewing on the web. Take a look!
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Halloween Unmasked - Living In the Strode House
Listen to my wife Bianca and me talk about what it's like to live in the iconic Laurie Strode House, from the original Halloween movie. We start around the 7:15 mark. https://www.theringer.com/2018/10/22/18008372/haddonfield-has-a-posse
Yellow Moving Van
I have a new book out -- YELLOW MOVING VAN -- part of the Pitt Poetry Series. "In the funhouse world of Ron Koertge, Mary’s halo is as big as an inner tube, Mrs. Death fills in for her dreaded husband, and it takes a whole day and a half to build Rome. These new poems will entertain you so well, you might not even notice how the poet is issuing everywhere little appeals to your heart." -- Billy Collins
Just in time for Halloween, this new anthology of poems inspired by horror. Proud to be included.
New Title
I’m now officially the Poet Laureate of South Pasasena, California! https://southpasadenan.com/ron-koertge-appointed-the-first-poet-laureate-of-south-pasadena-by-city-council/
Olympusville
New book available now!
Imagine a heaven populated by familiar Greek gods. Sexy Aphrodite, gorgeous Adonis, Ares the warmonger, Artemis the huntress, wise Athena, bitter Demeter, and the like. But imagine also each of these denizens of Olympus stepping forward and revealing qualities that any reader can recognize: Hades, ruler of the underworld, lovesick for Persephone. Baffled Hephaestus, god of fire, husband of Aphrodite who can’t keep her clothes on. Add a defiant Sisyphus and a cadre of grumpy water nymphs and those are only some of the inhabitants of Olympusville―a fantastic and, in the hands of poet Ron Koertge and illustrator Alicia Kleman, endlessly intriguing world.
Negative Space Interview
I finally had the chance to meet Max Porter and Ru Kuwahata, the animators behind the Negative Space film. Check out the clips below.
Ron Koertge Reacts To the Oscar Nomination for “Negative Space”
Negative Space, a short film by Ru Kuwahata and Max Porter, just received an Oscar nomination for Best Animated Short. The film is based on a poem by Ron Koertge. Author Christine Heppermann caught up with Ron to get his reaction to the news.
Christine: It seems so right that one of your poems ended up here, given how much you love movies and how often you write about them in your poetry and fiction. How does it feel to go from devoted movie fan to participant in an Oscar-nominated short film?
Ron: It feels terrific. Just yesterday I was in a theatre at 11:00 in the morning to see a movie. So there I was with [my wife] Bianca and two other people. And I feel lucky, of course.
And for the record, “Negative Space” is actually a prose poem or a piece of micro-fiction. It’s from a collection of Flash Fiction called Sex World published by Red Hen Press.
Christine: Is the poem autobiographical? Did you bond with your dad over luggage?
Ron: Gee, no. My parents were too poor to travel much, and when they went anywhere it was always by car. Neither of my parents was ever on an airplane. I’m sure we owned suitcases, but I don’t remember any. My dad and I bonded over work. That’s what men did: they went to work.
Christine: The story in "Negative Space" is both sad and sweet. Having read a lot of your work, I've come to think of that as your signature combo. Is that a balance you consciously try to achieve or does it come naturally?
Ron: It’s pretty natural versus planned. I like to get short pieces up and running and then see where they go. Sometimes I’ll resist the familiar turn that, for instance, takes a funny poem out of the sunshine and into the shade. But as often as not when I revise, I’ll retrace my steps.
Christine: What's your favorite part of the film? I love the belt/snake!
Ron: I pretty much love the snake/belt, too. The animators did a terrific job of pacing and building to the climax: “All that wasted space.” I wrote a lot of the pieces in Sex World in three months, getting up early to go to work and writing one per day. Some are solid, journeyman pieces but others — and “Negative Space" is one of those — were gifts from the writing gods. I’d finish and say to myself, “Wow, where did that come from?”
Negative Space
Negative Space, an animated film based on a poem I wrote, is available to view online for a limited time. The film has screened at more than 85 events, winning over 25 prizes including nine Grand Prix/Best Animated Short awards, and has qualified for Academy consideration by winning the grand prize at this year’s Anima Mundi. It was directed by Max Porter and Ru Kuwahata.
Here’s the link:
http://cinema.arte.tv/fr/article/negative-space-de-ru-kuwahata-et-max-porter
Congratulations to Rayon Lennon, winner of the 2017 Rattle Poetry Prize!
My poem “Two Weeks with Pay” was a finalist for the 2017 Rattle Poetry Prize. Congratulations to Rayon Lennon, whose poem “Heard” is the winner.
Mrs. Nelson’s Class
I’m happy to be included in this new anthology.
On May 17, 1954, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in the case of Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas that state-sanctioned segregation of public schools is unconstitutional.
In September 1954, in an Air Force base school near Salina, Kansas, young African American teacher Mrs. Johnnie Mitchell Nelson became the teacher of a second grade class of twenty white children. Mrs. Nelson knew, but did her pupils understand they were making history together?
Through a class roster of persona poems by poets Doug Anderson, Martha Collins, Alfred Corn, Annie Finch, Helen Frost, Margaret Gibson, Jeanine Hathaway, Andrew Hudgins, Mark Jarman, Peter Johnson, Meg Kearney, Ron Koertge, David Mason, Leslie Monsour, Dinty W. Moore, Marilyn Nelson, LeslEa Newman, Michael Palma, Michael Waters, and Katherine Williams, this anthology presents Mrs. Nelson and her class, imagining how she and her students may have experienced their unique situation.
8 O’clock
I like how the lamp
takes a peek at my book.
If I hold it just right
we can both get a look.
Night is outside dripping
ink on the walk.
Inside my book, shady
characters talk.
Here comes a cat. He’s
unusually smug.
He turns around once,
blends into the rug.
I read him a sentence.
He scowls with one eye.
I won’t read him another.
Let sleeping cats lie.
(Originally published here)
Lily
My poem "Lily" is featured today on American Life in Poetry. http://www.americanlifeinpoetry.org/columns/current
Lily
No one would take her when Ruth passed. As the survivors assessed some antiques, I kept hearing, "She's old. Somebody should put her down." I picked her up instead. Every night I tell her about the fish who died for her, the ones in the cheerful aluminum cans. She lies on my chest to sleep, rising and falling, rising and falling like a rowboat fastened to a battered dock by a string.
Reading this Saturday in Venice, CA, with Kim Dower.
On September 17 I’ll be reading at Poets House in NYC along with Billy Collins and Brynn Saito.