Poetry Movies

Starring Vehicle for Free Kitten. Kim Gordon, Julie Cafritz, & Mark Ibold lounge on suburban lawns, jamming a guitar effects box & Japanese beat...

An Edgar A. Guest Poetic Gem. It features the original song Take Me Home to the Mountain by Loesser & Herscher.

A whole new universe can hide in the smallest speck of ink.

A short film inspired by the poems of Giulia Bencivenga.

A personal essay film about the nature of artistic creation and the responsibility that comes along with it.

An uninspired artist goes on a journey and returns with an image.

Lebanon today. The traces of the civil war are all too tangible as government corruption becomes unbearable. In a country where conflict and peace...

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...

A lost chapter in black British film: extraordinary rushes from a documentary showcasing talented members of the black community.

T. S. Eliot has been considered by many to be the leading American poet of this century. His contemporaries in the 1920s recognized in “The...

A collaborative film created during Lockdown in response to the political landscape and the work of Daisaku Ikeda.

Explores the creation of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s poem, “Evangeline: A Tale of Acadie,” and the phenomenon it became.

Since 1985, poets, songwriters and musicians have gathered at the Cowboy Poetry Gathering in Nevada.

A 1979 short dramatization of a poem by Robert Frost.

The confluence of words and movement propels this multi-layered collaboration by Atlas, choreographer Douglas Dunn, and poets Anne Waldman and Reed...

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...