Event ID # 94874
Date:
Monday, November 9, 2009
Tuesday, November 10, 2009
Wednesday, November 11, 2009
 Time:
5:00 pm - 11:00 pm
5:00 pm - 11:00 pm
5:00 pm - 11:00 pm
Event:

WORD! Poets & Songwriters Movie Program
Host:

Bill Nevins
Location:

(Nob Hill, Albuquerque)   Google Map
Guild Cinema
3405 Central NE, Albuquerque
Contact:
Phone:
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Website:
http://www.guildcinema.com
Price:
$5 seniors & students, $7 general admission, $20 6 movie punch card
Full details:
First annual program of movies made by and about artists working in poetry and song. Fresh, exciting films from New Mexico and around the world.

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, Allen Ginsberg 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, Sonic Youth and NY Irish rebel rousers Black 47, among others.

New Mexico’s rich poetry culture will be represented in films including the poetry of UNM writers Levi Romero, Mary Oishi and 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 the Emmy-winning The Song & The Slogan, directed by Tim Hartin and featuring music composed by Daniel Steven Crafts of Rio Rancho.

Albuquerque Slam Poet Laureate Danny Solis will perform live poetry to open the program on Monday.