I really enjoy these video poems by Mark Leidner (a friend of a friend who's getting his MFA at UMass Amherst). Apparently he started creating them as a way to hear the poems read because he wanted his writing to be very conversational. However, I think that the dry animated voice works well with his humor and that encountering the poems in such an unexpected form increases their overall effectiveness. He's done a bunch but the two embedded here are my favorites:
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