GUILD CINEMA HOSTS POETRY & SONG MOVIE PROGRAM NOV. 9-11, 2009
Albuquerque— The Guild Cinema of Albuquerque will host the first annual WORD! Poets & Songwriters Movie Program on November 9, 10, 11, 2009. This event will start at 4pm each day, Monday through Wednesday. According to organizer Bill Nevins, “We want to share the excitement of seeing and hearing sharp writing, and dynamic writers on the big screen.” Among the poets and songwriters appearing in the movies being screened are Beat poetry icons Jack Kerouac and Lawrence Ferlinghetti and radical Poet Laureates Amiri Baraka and Jack Hirschman. Songwriting stars to be featured include West Texas heroes The Flatlanders, Talking Head David Byrne and NY Irish rebel rousers Black 47, among others.
New Mexico’s rich poetry culture will be represented in films about the Poetry of Atrisco and the poetry of UNM writer Richard Vargas. There will also be surprises, including the US premiere of Talkies! by UK video-poet Steve Tasane and a widely praised mockumentary about the mysterious Humberville Poetry Slam. The program also features the Southwest premiere of Polis Is This: Charles Olson and the Persistence of Place, director Henry Ferrini’s visionary tribute to the art and mind of one of American poetry’s giants. Another American poetry hero, Carl Sandburg, will be celebrated in Rio Rancho film maker Daniel Steven Crafts’ Emmy-winning The Song & The Slogan.
Detailed information on screening schedules and ticket prices at www.guildcinema.com
Co-sponsors of WORD! Poets & Songwriters Movie Program are The Poetry Society of New Mexico and Sanjevani Poetry Circle.
The Guild Cinema, Albuquerque Nov. 9, 10, 11, 2009 Monday-Wednesday
Movies scheduled to be screened (screening dates/times to be announced soon.)
Feature length films:
Red Poet: Jack Hirschman directed by Matt Furey
Polis Is This, Charles Olson and the Persistence of Place directed by Henry Ferrini
Amiri Baraka and the Last Poets: Who Blew Up America? directed by Rod Hollimon
Lubbock Lights, The Flatlanders and West Texas Songs directed by Amy Maner
Black 47 at Connolly’s in NYC on New Year’s Eve directed by Handmade Films
The Song & The Slogan, Carl Sandburg by director Daniel S. Crafts
Short films:
Talkies! by United Kingdom poets, directed by Steve Tasane
The Humberville Poetry Slam by director Emily Chang
Jack Kerouac by director Henry Ferrini
DLIPS, poem by Richard Vargas
WORD! I Am a Poet, poem by Mary Oishi
Alamo Viejo, poem by Priscilla Baca y Candelaria
Levi Romero poem with music
Poetry of Atrisco by director Esteban Rael
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