Poets and Poems on Film

A couple of weeks ago I was captivated by The Source, Chuck Workman’s documentary in which you can see and hear the Beat generation writers and their poems on film. Then last week Amy King gathered together a huge list of Movies with Poetry, suggested by readers of her blog — I’m keeping her list close at hand, searching out titles to add to my Netflix subscription. And this week we got the call from Heather Haley for poetry film entries to Visible Verse, the newest reincarnation of the Vancouver Videopoem Festival. All reminders of the affinity of poems and film images, poets and movies.

More on Film and Video Poetry:
Why I Love Making, a meditation on media with poems, by Mike Hazard aka Media Mike
Links to online video poetry archives
Our articles on films about poets and poetry