Orem Library

Features Mormon women's poetry written from 1845 to 2003. These dramatic and musical interpretations of the poems trace and connect us to these women's lives from creation through childhood, youth, marriage, motherhood, aging, death, and entrance into eternity.

Follow the legendary cowboy poet and Moffat Wood Chopping Champion, Peggy Godfrey, as she performs twelve of her poems. A WOMAN RANCHING THE ROCKIES offers an insight into life on the high Rocky Mountain ranches. Can this woman do a man's work? Peg changes perceptions of what roles women can play on ranches in the West. Also included is the Kent Gunnufson documentary, THE MIRACLE OF PEGGY GODFREY, produced for Public Television which has been featured...

Before Russell Simmons' Def Poety Jam, Slamnation captured the cutthroat world of spoken-word poetry. The film follows Saul Williams and three other top poets as they make their way to the National Poetry Slam, the Super Bowl of poetry.

Brendan Behan's life can be divided into 3 parts: his youthful years in an English jail for his activities on behalf of the I.R.A.; his writing, drawn largely from his experiences as a prisoner; and his prodigious boozing, which resulted in his death in 1963 at the age of 41.

Allan Miller's affecting documentary tells Behan's story through the people who knew him best - his wife, brothers, I.R.A. comrades and fellow drinkers in the Dublin pubs,

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An in-depth look at the relationship between the late musician Leonard Cohen and his Norwegian muse Marianne Ihlen. Official Selection at the **Sundance Film Festival**. *"Nick Broomfield's riveting documentary gives us a vivid snapshot of the early 1960s and a complicated, mysterious love story." - Peter Bradshaw, **Guardian***

Three Bronx teens search for their voices and an answer to the question: Can language change lives? Karina, Pearl, and Anthony are precariously balanced on the edge. Inspired by three teachers in a radical poetry workshop, can they write their own life stories, imagining a future where fathers aren't in jail, mothers aren't abusive and college is a place where you awake every morning instead of just dreaming about it every night? A dedicated filmmaking...

A performance film of contemporary poets which celebrates poetry's ancient oral tradition. Here twenty-four leading North American poets sing, chant and read from their own works.

Breaking a vow of silence, Ezra Pound reads his Canto I of 1917 to friends at lunch during the Gian-Carlo Menotti’s Spoleto Festival in 1967.

This documentary explores the artistic connection between Robert Motherwell’s Open Series and Rafael Alberti’s poetry cycle, A La Pintura. Infatuated with Alberti’s text, Motherwood uses his words as the subject for his first venture into aquatints at Tatyana Grosman’s printmaking workshop. Historic footage shows Alberti, the last member of the Garcia Lorca generation, reading his poetry aloud. His poetic themes voice an homage to painting,...

133 of the world's most famous poems cleverly preformed and artistically interpreted by The First Poetry Quartet and celebrity guests.