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Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Called the "Woodstock of Poetry" by American Film, and "Dazzling" by the Los Angeles Times, Poetry in Motion is an unprecedented anthology of twenty-four leading North American poets who sing, chant, anything but "read" their work. The result is a celebration of poetry's ancient oral tradition. And an energetic demonstration that verse is alive and thriving in the media-blitzed age.
2) Sylvia
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
[2004], c2003
Language
English
Description
Born in Boston, MA, in 1932, Plath developed a talent as a writer and published her first poem when she was eight years old. That same year, Plath was forced to confront the unexpected death of her father. In 1950, she began studying at Smith College on a literary scholarship. In 1955, she was granted a Fulbright Scholarship to study in England at Cambridge. There, Plath met Ted Hughes, a respected author. The two fell in love, and married in 1958....
Publisher
Palm Pictures
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Patti Smith is a renowned singer, songwriter, poet and activist. Her music, poetry, and politics are fearless, funny, raw and original. Traces Patti's punk-poet roots through the trials of daily life and untimely deaths that have formed her life and art. Touches on her early days in New York City and includes the people dearest to her, her family, and the political causes she champions.
Publisher
First Run Features
Language
English
Formats
Description
Visionary, radical, spiritual seeker, renowned poet, founding member of a major literary movement, champion of human rights, Buddhist, political activist and teacher – Allen Ginsberg’s remarkable life shaped the very soul of American counterculture. For 25 years, Academy Award®-nominated director Jerry Aronson accumulated more than 60 hours of film on Allen Ginsberg, resulting in this comprehensive portrait of one of America’s greatest poets,...
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
A documentary film about the life and work of Poet Laureate, two-time Pulitzer winner, and environmental activist W.S. Merwin. Features interviews with Mr. Merwin, his family, friends and other notables, and reflects on humankind and our relationship to this wildness called Earth.
Publisher
E1 Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
From Focus World and director/star James Franco. Hart Crane was one of the most important voices in American poetry, but lived a life with as much turmoil as passion. From his early life to his journeys from New York, Cuba and Paris, Crane's story and that of the loves that defined him is told with imaginative empathy, and with a no holds barred performance, in a film as introspective, rebellious, heartbreaking, and honest as Crane himself.
8) Walt Whitman
Publisher
PBS Home Video [distributor]
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
One of the most-recognized figures in American literary history: poet, patriot, and faithful advocate of democracy. But in his own time, critics denounced Walt Whitman as a "lunatic raving in pitiable delirium". This "American experience" production tells Whitman's life story, from his working class childhood in Long Island to his years as a newspaper reporter in Brooklyn when he struggled to support his impoverished family, then to his reckless pursuit...
10) To be heard
Publisher
Dialogue Pictures
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
To Be Heard is the story of three teens from the South Bronx whose struggle to change their lives begins when they start to write poetry. As writing and reciting become vehicles for their expressions of love, friendship, frustration, and hope, we watch these three youngsters emerge as accomplished self-aware artists, who use their creativity to alter their circumstances.
Publisher
Monterey
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
Description
Edgar Allen Poe was truest to his heart a poet. He has blessed American literature with some of the most striking and moving imagery ever created. Includes: The Conqueror Worm, To My Mother, Israfel, Annabel Lee, The City in the Sea, and five more poems.
Publisher
Tar Films, LLC
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Based on Pulitzer Prize-winning poet CK Williams's TAR collection, a poetic expression of his life, written and directed by twelve filmmakers from New York University. The film takes a journey through several decades of American life, from CK's childhood and adolescence in Detroit in the 1940s and '50s to the early 1980s. CK and his wife Catherine are married with a son. CK spends his nights struggling to write new poems and haunted by memories of...
Publisher
Kultur
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Poet Emily Dickinson decided against publishing her poems, and during her lifetime only seven of her works were published. At the time of her death she left behind over 2000 poems. As a result of her life of solitude, she was able to focus on her world more sharply than other authors of her time.
14) Poetry in motion
Publisher
Home Vision Entertainment [distributor]
Pub. Date
c2002
Language
English
Description
A performance film of contemporary poets which celebrates poetry's ancient oral tradition. Here twenty-four leading North American poets sing, chant and read from their own works.
Publisher
Indiepix Films
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Legendary Beat poet and jazz performer ruth weiss (deliberately lowercase) grew up in 1920s Vienna, escaped the Nazis in 1938, hung with Jack Kerouac in the 50s, and was still on stage on her 90th birthday in San Francisco. Filmmaker Thomas Antonic accompanied the poetess during her last years, tracing her life as a grand collage that transcended the Beat.
Publisher
Films for the Humanities & Sciences
Pub. Date
c2003
Language
English
Description
Welcome to the mainland: Sekou Sundiata & Naomi Shihab celebrate the cultures of today and the way those cultures have become part of the American mosaic. Love's confusing joy: Coleman Barks brings the poems of 13th century Islamic poet Jelaluddin Rumi to contemporary American audiences. The field of time: Sandra McPherson and Linda McCarriston exult in the beauty of love, family, and nature. Some can sing: Poetry's ability to bridge gaps and cross...
17) Marathon
Publisher
Breaking Glass Pictures
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
The poignant and inspiring true story of the relationship between Poet Laureate William Meredith and his lover, poet Richard Harteis, is tenderly brought to the screen, creating a joyful testament to the triumph of love and the reserve and resilience of the human spirit. When poet and teacher Meredith suffers a stroke, his longtime companion Harteis, a writer and marathon runner, begins a determined battle to nurse his lover back to health.
Publisher
Steve Gentile & Jim Wolpaw
Pub. Date
c2002
Language
English
Description
"A filmmaker who is stumped but captivated by Emily Dickinson's poetry searches for 'flashes of insight' into the elusive poet beyond those offered by his lively but traditional interviews with experts such as actress Julie Harris and U.S. Poet Laureate Billy Collins. So he turns to shrinks, a sensitive, a stand-up comic, a rock band, even a fan with an Emily tattoo across his back. Still unsatisfied, he holds auditions in which dozens of actresses...
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
An exploration into the life and work of the iconic American, Carl Sandburg. From an impoverished youth on the prairie of Illinois to the halls of Congress and international notoriety, it was a tale of perseverance and success. During his lifetime he was revered, becoming one of the most successful writers of the 20th century, but when he died in 1967, his legacy suffered an unusual and inexplicably fast decline. His work was disparaged and his remarkable...
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