At the close of National Poetry Month, April 2009, we would like to leave\u00a0you with\u00a0some audio thoughts\u00a0that may encourage further exploration. Some may feel that\u00a0poetry is inaccessible, but finding the right poem, or the right way a poet describes a poem, can open you up to reinterpreting the mundane. Below are some DVD’s about poetry, and the tortured and not so tortured poetic soul.<\/p>\n
Arrows of desire: Poets on poems Before night falls<\/strong> The collected poetry of Nikki Giovanni<\/strong> <\/p>\n Glitterbox Mirror<\/em><\/strong> of<\/span> the<\/span> soul: T<\/span>he<\/span> Forough<\/span> Farrokhzad trilogy Pi\u00f1ero Sounds of Poetry At the close of National Poetry Month, April 2009, we would like to leave\u00a0you with\u00a0some audio thoughts\u00a0that may encourage further exploration. Some may feel that\u00a0poetry is inaccessible, but finding the right poem, or the right way a poet describes a poem, can open you up to reinterpreting the mundane. Below are some DVD’s about poetry, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[160,159],"class_list":["post-1049","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-library-news","tag-poetry","tag-poets"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/libweb.fau.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1049","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/libweb.fau.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/libweb.fau.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libweb.fau.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/36"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libweb.fau.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1049"}],"version-history":[{"count":32,"href":"https:\/\/libweb.fau.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1049\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8208,"href":"https:\/\/libweb.fau.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1049\/revisions\/8208"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/libweb.fau.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libweb.fau.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libweb.fau.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n<\/strong><\/em>A four-part series exploring English poetry providing insight into the poetic craft by looking at classic examples in a number of<\/span> forms, such as love poems, elegies, nature poems, and comic verse.
\nCall Number:\u00a0\u00a0PS323.A7723 2003<\/a> (Boca Media Center) -DVD<\/p>\n
\nThe story of Cuban poet and novelist Reinaldo Arenas.
\nCall Number: PN1997 .B44126 2001<\/a> (Boca Raton Media Center) – VHS<\/p>\n
\nPoet Nikki Giovanni talks about her book, The Collected Poetry of Nikki Giovanni, 1968-1998<\/em>.
\nCall Number: PS3557.I55Z474 2003<\/a> (Boca Media Center) – DVD<\/p>\n
\n<\/strong><\/em>A collection of 4 films by Derek Jarman, originally released between 1985 and 1993,\u00a0 including The angelic conversation.<\/em> in which fourteen of Shakespeare’s sonnets are taken as a basis for a rapturous celebration of homoerotic love in both its spiritual and sensual dimensions.
\nCall Number:\u00a0PN1997.A1J37 2008<\/a> (Boca Media Center) -DVD<\/span><\/p>\n
\n<\/em><\/strong>A three-part documentary about the life and work of controversial Iranian poet Forough Farrokhzad
\nCall Number: PK6561.F264Z69 2007 <\/a>(Boca Media Center) – DVD<\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>The story of the life of a Latino icon, the poet-playwright-actor Miguel Pi\u00f1ero, whose urban poetry is recognized as a pre-cursor to rap and hip-hop.
\nCall Number: PN1997.2.P5647 2002<\/a> (Boca Media Center) – DVD<\/span><\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>Segments\u00a0of<\/span> the Festival which featured poets reading selections of<\/span> their verse and talking with Bill Moyers about the language of<\/span> poetry<\/span>. A few of the Poets included are:
\nColeman Barks<\/a> (Jupiter Media Center) – VHS
\nLorna Dee Cervantes and Shirley Geok-lin Lim<\/a> (Jupiter Media Center) – VHS
\nLucille Clifton and Mark Doty<\/a> (Jupiter Media Center) – VHS
\nMarge Piercy<\/a> (Jupiter Media Center) – VHS
\n(See ILL<\/a> to check out from Boca)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"