Three of my family members are a part of the original group of artists and activists: My uncle Louie is a master silk screener and poet, my father Hector was the group's personal photographer, and my uncle Fred was a master printer.
For close to 40 years film scholars and biographers of Greta Garbo have waited for the day when 55 letters and 32 cards and telegrams that the actress wrote to Mercedes de Acosta, a playwright, screen writer and poet, would be unsealed at Philadelphia's Rosenbach Museum & Library.
Author, screen-writer and poet Martin Edmond will discuss his research and discoveries behind his latest book Battarbee and Namatjira.
Four short films by the experimental filmmaker Joel Schlemowitz will be screened, and a Poet's Theatre piece by Martha King is on the schedule, too, along with other attractions.
Two weeks ago a large audience of Dylan Thomas enthusiasts gathered in a marquee in Laugharne, the pretty Carmarthenshire town where Thomas spent his last years, to view a screening of A Poet in New York, a new TV drama about his final days.
He last visited in July for a Q&A session at the Grammy Museum in conjunction with a screening of "The Poet of Havana," the 2015 documentary on Varela's life and music shot in Havana and elsewhere by filmmaker Ron Chapman.
Paul Giamatti is one of our great screen actors, an absolute poet of frustration and regret with the range to play a wide variety of roles.
Had the poet wandered into a screening of Interstellar this week, he would have taken a dim view of Anne Hathaway and Matthew McConaughey's apparent mumbling.
Howl Heads up: the delish James Franco is set to play poet Allen Ginsberg on the big screen later this year.
During The Whole of the Moon, the poet himself appears on the video screen, and appears to be smiling.
