Tucson Poetry Festival™
&
Cinema La Placita

present

A film series of classic and contemporary films that speak to the 2003 TPF™ theme: poetry and film.

We will be screening films selected by the 2003 Tucson Poetry Festival™ guests.

Come see films that have influenced poets - from Trakovsky's Nostalghia to Cocteau's Orpheus to Marlene Dietrich in Blue Angel.

Please join us Thursdays in April, National Poetry Month at Cinema La Placita!

Cinema La Placita is located at La Placita Village Plaza (Corner of Broadway & Church in Downtown Tucson).

Walking Around
(excerpt from Residence on Earth)

I happened to be tired of being a man.
I happen to enter tailorshops and moviehouses
withered, impenetrable, like a felt swan
navigating in a water of sources and ashes.

The smell of barbershops makes me wail.
I want only a respite of stones or wool,
I want only not to see establishments or gardens,
or merchandise, or eyeglasses, or elevators.

I happen to be tired of my feet and my nails
and my hair and my shadow.
I happen to be tired of being a man.

-Pablo Neruda

Neruda: Poet of the People; Poet of Women
presented by
Gary Mex Glazner

Thursday, April 3 at 7:30

Using Pablo Neruda's own poems as flashes of summer lightning to illuminate his life, this medley of words will lead us to the "Spain in our Hearts," "The Heights of Macchu Picchu," to take up, "Residence on Earth" to sing the praises of "Elemental Odes."

The evening will open with the performance of Neruda's poetry and talk about his life, progress to the viewing the Academy Award winning Il Postino - perhaps the film that best answers the question of what is a metaphor- and afterwards with questions and answers of our own.

Join us in the April air of Tucson to discuss Pablo Neruda and Il Postino, "as if at the center of a burning star of slow space."

"Which yellow bird fills its nest with lemons?"

Gary Mex Glazner makes his living as a poet. Denise Kusel, of The Santa Fe New Mexican says, "Poet Gary Mex Glazner belies a mild-manner with an inyourface delivery. He shouts. He postures. He's a madman, insisting you get it -all of it. Because he holds nothing back he's insightful and dangerous, as only a good poet can be." Glazner is the curator of Word Art: Poetry Broadside Series at the Palace of Governor's Museum in Santa Fe. La Alameda Press published his first book Ears on Fire: Snapshot Essays in a World of Poets last summer.