Poetry Movies

An elderly woman finds out by the rumors of her friends that a teenager in her neighborhood has been kicked out of her home for being a lesbian. This...

Lesley, in her 80s, and teenager Jay deliver spoken word poetry expressing their sense of belonging, home, and their vision for the future of the...

Born in 1948, Peter Street struggled at school with epilepsy and illiteracy in Bolton, Lancashire, and, later in life, as a slaughterman, a...

Tells the story a woman's life (and death) through poetry and symbolism.

Kitty Tsui, Chinese American writer, poet, body builder, and lesbian activist, tells of her arrival as an immigrant to San Francisco and, amidst the...

American cowboys have been writing poetry for over a century. This little-known literary tradition both belies the macho image of the Western heroes...

Narrated as a letter to a mother, this short film traces the emotional undercurrents of leaving home and adjusting to a new environment, blending...

Using the author's personal estate, current images of places where she lived or were dear to her, and archival images of television and film; using...

In the spring of 1970 Charles Bukowski took his first plane trip for a poetry reading at Bellevue Community College in Washington state. That he was...

“Don’t Take Harlem is my personal love letter to Harlem. This project is dear to me because it allowed me to understand my hometown and...

An experimental visual poem combining film, animation, photography, and archival footage inviting people to occupy the Black Body and examine the...

A visual poetry short film, inspired by and featuring the poem "Knickknacks" by Tuesday Taylor York.

Language of Mules is a poignant exploration of the haunting legacy of the Holocaust through the eyes and words of poet and author John Guzlowski....

A poem about mania written by Omar Zefier. His second film.

Sylvia Plath Read 18 Poems From Her Final Collection, Ariel, in a 1962 Recording

The third film of the biographical cycle based on Pushkin's drawings and texts.