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Turn a Poem into a Short Film

Convert any poem into a 30-second cinematic vertical short with matched visuals, animated typography, and original audio.

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Poems are written to be heard and felt, but text on a screen rarely delivers the full emotional weight of the words. Most poets and literary creators have no way to bring their work to life visually without significant production resources — the gap between a poem written and a poem experienced is enormous.

Poetry Cinema transforms the text of a poem into a complete 30-second vertical short film: AI-generated visuals matched to the imagery and tone of the poem, animated typography that times each line to the audio reading, and a soundscape or score that amplifies the emotional register. The assembly is handled automatically, producing a film-quality output from a text input.

Poets, literary magazines, spoken word artists, and creative writing programs use this to publish poetry as film — a format that reaches wider audiences on social platforms than text alone ever could.

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Claude

  1. Connect ToolRouter in Claude: claude mcp add toolrouter -- npx -y toolrouter-mcp
  2. Share the poem and describe any specific visual imagery, tone, or emotional intent you want to preserve.
  3. Ask Claude to interpret the poem's core imagery and emotional arc before generating the film.
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ChatGPT

  1. Connect ToolRouter in ChatGPT: {"mcpServers":{"toolrouter":{"command":"npx","args":["-y","toolrouter-mcp"]}}}
  2. Share the poem, its context, and the intended audience for the film.
  3. Ask ChatGPT to run `poetry-cinema` with `resume_project` to generate the short film.
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Copilot

  1. Connect ToolRouter in Copilot: {"mcpServers":{"toolrouter":{"command":"npx","args":["-y","toolrouter-mcp"]}}}
  2. Share the poem, poet name, and workspace publication schedule format.
  3. Run `poetry-cinema` with `resume_project` to generate the short film.
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OpenClaw

  1. Connect ToolRouter in OpenClaw: openclaw mcp add toolrouter -- npx -y toolrouter-mcp
  2. Define all poems, their tones, any specific visual or audio requirements, and output naming schema before batching.
  3. Run `poetry-cinema` with `resume_project` across the full poem set.
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