Video

Choices

July 14, 2017
Tess Gallagher, “Choices” from <em>Midnight Lantern: New and Selected Poems</em>. Copyright 2006 by Tess Gallagher. Used by permission of The Permissions Company, Inc. on behalf of Graywolf Press, Minneapolis, Minnesota, www.graywolfpress.org. Produced by USC Film School.
Created in partnership with Motionpoems, this meditative film explores the beauty and surprise of the unseen. Tess Gallagher, “Choices” from Midnight Lantern: New and Selected Poems. Copyright 2006 by Tess Gallagher. Used by permission of The Permissions Company, Inc. on behalf of Graywolf Press, Minneapolis, Minnesota, www.graywolfpress.org. Produced by USC Film School.
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