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Poetic X: spoken word poetry festival, documentary

SHREVEPORT, La. (KTAL/KMSS) — Kicking off National Poetry Month, the renowned spoken word artist Poetic X joins me for a conversation about his 6th annual poetry festival, upcoming documentary, and ...
The Grio

Rosario Dawson on ‘Our Words Collide’ documentary, her love of poetry and concerns about AI

Executive producing the poetry documentary “Our Words Collide” was a natural fit for Rosario Dawson. Since first moving to Los Angeles years ago, the actress-producer, has involved herself in the ...
The New Indian Express

In documentary, the late poet Andrea Gibson shared their terminal cancer journey to help others

PARK CITY, Utah: Andrea Gibson would be the first to tell you that they never expected a documentary about their life with a terminal cancer diagnosis to be funny. No one did. But Gibson, a celebrated ...
PBS

For the film ‘Paterson,’ poet Ron Padgett wrote four original poems

This poem is one of four that American poet Ron Padgett wrote specifically for the new Jim Jarmusch film “Paterson,” which follows a poetry-writing bus driver (played by Adam Driver) who shares a name ...
The Atlantic

Nature in Old English Poetry

IN the epic of Beowulf, our first great English epic, with almost countless references to the winter season, the sweet, antithetical season of summer is not once mentioned. This fact is significant, ...
AOL

Rosario Dawson on ‘Our Words Collide’ documentary, her love of poetry and concerns about AI

“Every point of this creation has been so marvelous, and perfect and necessary,” Dawson says about the film, which profiles five young poets in L.A. Executive producing the poetry documentary “Our ...