Cadence Video Poetry Festival

Verse meets visuals in motion at Cadence Video Poetry Festival in April 2025. Cadence Video Poetry is a series of screenings, workshops, and discussions on the genre of video poetry, taking place annually during National Poetry Month. The festival takes place in person April 24 at Frye Art Museum, April 25–27 at Northwest Film Forum, and online April 25 – May 4. Cadence approaches video poetry as a literary genre presented as visual media, cultivating new meaning from the combination of text and moving image.

In its eighth year, Cadence Video Poetry Festival remains the only festival dedicated to the form in the Pacific Northwest. The festival program includes an opening preview and four themed screenings with works selected from an open call for submissions, including video poetry by members of the 2025 screening team, new work from two artists-in-residence, and Cadence workshop outcomes.