Poetry Movies

A naked girl reads and discusses about 30 poems.

a visualization of a poem telling a story of making a piramid out of a mountain

A moving recording of the late writer and renowned jazz singer Abbey Lincoln is captured in this new film from Brooklyn-born director Rodney...

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

Poetry, erotic imagery, and Pasolini’s words come together in a fragmented exploration of gay desire and the politics of the body. Navigating...

A poet's muse calls on his inner child to save their relationship.

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

Rose the rabbit seeks her way home in this poetic story of reclamation, recovery, and reconciliation.

A woman cuts off her braids and finds relief in her natural hair.

The spiritual successor to 'The Paul Molinar Show,' 'Poetry with Paul Molinar' offers bittersweet commentaries on the state of contemporary American...

Born in 1948, Peter Street struggled at school with epilepsy and illiteracy in Bolton, Lancashire, and, later in life, as a slaughterman, a...

There is a vitality, a life force, a quickening that is translated through you into action,
and because there is only one of you in all time,...

The four elements that bring our earth together fight for attention to bring more awareness to our mother earth. A poem guides us through the...

Wahdat-ul-Wujood explores the concept of oneness and the human journey through separation, conflict, and return. Inspired by the philosophy of Wahdat...

In Busto of a poet, the word is the real protagonist: the verses, reflections and texts of José Ángel Valente take shape through the...

A being from the stars becomes trapped in a human body.

"The Lady in the Book" is Sylvia Plath, a major author of 20th-century American poetry and a feminist icon following her sudden death at the age of...

A visual poetry short film, inspired by and featuring the poem "Knickknacks" by Tuesday Taylor York.