Poetry in Motion

More than 20 contemporary North American poets recite, sing, and perform their work. Early in the film, Charles Bukowski talks about the energy of poets and of a poem. These poets are the children of Walt Whitman and of Charles Olson, incantatory and oratorical, radical, sometimes incorporating contemporary political imagery. Black Mountain poets, the Beats, minimalists like John Cage, the wordless Four Horsemen, Tom Waits, and others capture aspects of poets as troubadours.

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  Ron Mann

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  Charles Bukowski
  Self
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  William S. Burroughs
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  John Cage
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  Jim Carroll
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  Robert Creeley
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  Allen Ginsberg
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  Tom Waits
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  Gary Snyder
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  Ted Berrigan
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  Ed Sanders
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  Diane Di Prima
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  Amiri Baraka
  Self
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  Anne Waldman
  Self
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  Kenward Elmslie
  Self
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  Christopher Dewdney
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  Michael McClure
  Self
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  Ted Milton
  Self
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  Michael Ondaatje
  Self
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  John Giorno
  Self
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  Ntozake Shange
  Self