New York in de jaren 90. De pas afgestudeerde Joanna streeft een carrière als schrijfster na en kan alvast ervaring opdoen als assistente van Margaret, die de agente is van J.D. Salinger. Joanna krijgt de taak om de fanmail van Salinger te doorspitten en te beantwoorden. Dit doet ze vanuit een kantoor, terwijl zijzelf in een armoedig flat woont met haar vriendje.
Lisa Spinelli is lerares die op een aparte manier erg toegewijd is aan haar leerlingen. Ze ontdekt dat een vijfjarige uit haar klas een wonderkind is en raakt gefascineerd door hem. In een poging om zijn talent te helpen ontwikkelen riskeert ze haar familie en vrijheid.
Als zijn moeder overlijdt, die hem zijn gehele leven heeft beschermd, wordt de 40-jarige Elling, een gevoelige wannabe-dichter naar een inrichting gestuurd.
T. S. Eliot ends one of his most famous poems, "The Hollow Men", by repeating three times the sentence "This is how the world ends" - and then adding: "Not with a bang but a whimper."
This documentary is a chronicle of the journey through the most important sites of the life of venezuelan writer Francisco Massiani who reveals the details of his work and the love of his life.
Docudrama about American poet Hart Crane, who committed suicide in April 1932 at the age of 32 by jumping off the steamship SS Orizaba.
An account of the life and work of the Spanish poet Luis García Montero; a journey through his experiences, his mentors, his influences and his contact with other artists, both from the literary world and from other disciplines.
A 1964 documentary portrait of Cohen in his pre-musician days as a poet and stand-up comedian.
This film explores freedom of speech in the United States of America
The Last Straw is a film documenting the very last live poetry reading given by Charles Bukowski at The Sweetwater, a music club in Redondo Beach, California on March 31, 1980
The œuvre of poet Raffaello Baldini (1924-2005) through the words of those who knew him, the poems he himself read, the fragments of his monologues, his beloved Romagna landscapes.
An event organised by CND pits the bomb against poetry. Hear artists who hoped that words and rhymes could put an end to destructive times.
Since 1973 Bruno K. Öijer has been on stage performing his own unique pictorial outsider poetry. We meet him during the celebrated sold out tour of Sweden in 2014. His latest collection of poetry "And the night whispered Annabel Lee" is widely and unanimously acclaimed as well as embraced.