[New-Poetry] Poetic Justice

[Millicent Accardi]

I remember that film wth Janet Jackson.? 

The new one I'm referring to is?called "Spoken Word" or at least that's its working title in post-production.

It's about?"a?San Francisco spoken word artist returns to New Mexico to be with his dying father, only to find he loses his "voice" as he is sucked back in to the dysfunctional life of drugs and violence he left behind" (from IMDB).

The subject line just reminded me of a movie. . .and I was hopeful that the post was about poetry's role in cinema or something like that!


Cheers,

Millicent Borges Accardi

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There was a movie with that title, starring Janet Jackson and Tupac Shakur, that really wasn't bad. Maya Angelou, I believe, wrote Jackson's poetry. And it featured a scene with the great Last Poets that was worth the price of admission.?
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Millicent Accardi wrote:?
> Aye! Aye! The only thing "poetic" about the political thread was the > subject line, which I thought might have something to do with a movie > about performance poetry that a friend of mine worked on in New Mexico > last spring and which is supposed to be out in theaters this winter.?
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