Filmmaker: Favorite Poem Project

Song of Myself by Walt Whitman

17 September, 2009 by Dave Bonta - 1 Comment - Posted in Performance Poetry
Poet: | Nationality: | Filmmaker:

http://youtu.be/u38h4Bj20RQ

Excerpts from Walt Whitman’s “Song of Myself” introduced and recited by John Doherty for the Favorite Poem Project

Ay, Ay, Ay de la Grifa Negra by Julia de Burgos

16 July, 2009 by Dave Bonta - 1 Comment - Posted in Interviews, Performance Poetry
Poet: | Nationality: , | Filmmaker:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1YADagH8ipY

Poem by Julia de Burgos, translated by Jack Agüeros

I’ve been looking for videos of poems by the great 20th-century Puerto Rican poet and feminist Julia de Burgos in honor of the confinrmation hearings of Sonia Sotomayor, so I was happy to run across this installment from the generally wonderful Favorite Poem Project, featuring bilingual public school teacher Glaisma Perez-Silva.

,

Facing It by Yusef Komunyakaa

4 June, 2009 by Dave Bonta - Leave a comment - Posted in Interviews, Performance Poetry
Poet: | Nationality: | Filmmaker:

http://youtu.be/IaeNQC7PWK4

Poem by Yusef Komunyakaa

Read by Michael Lythgoe for the Favorite Poem Project