Uma recém graduada na faculdade aceita um emprego administrativo trabalhando para o agente literário do renomado e recluso escritor J.D. Salinger.
Lisa Spinelli, casada e com filhos que na sua maioria das vezes a ignoram, segue seus dias como professora em total anestesia. Mas um dia tudo muda – Lisa descobre que um menino de cinco anos da sua turma pode ser o poeta que ela sempre sonhou ser. Ela fica fascinada.
Elling (Per Christian Ellefsen), um homem de 40 anos com problemas mentais, passou os últimos dois anos em um hospital psiquiátrico, onde foi internado após a morte da mãe. Um programa de socialização faz com que ele vá viver num apartamento em Oslo com outro doente mental da mesma idade, Kjell Bjarne (Sven Nordin). No início até as atividades mais corriqueiras, como ir à esquina ou atender ao telefone, se tornam grandes desafios. Mas aos poucos a dupla vai se adaptando à nova realidade, perseguindo seus objetivos: enquanto Elling se descobre um poeta, Kjell Bjarne procura uma mulher para perder a virgindade.
Docudrama about American poet Hart Crane, who committed suicide in April 1932 at the age of 32 by jumping off the steamship SS Orizaba.
This film explores freedom of speech in the United States of America
A 1964 documentary portrait of Cohen in his pre-musician days as a poet and stand-up comedian.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.