As We Cover the Streets: Janine Pommy Vega

Summary As We Cover the Streets: Janine Pommy Vega intersperses photographs and descriptions of Vega's peripatetic life with an extraordinary performance of her reading poetry from 2002. Vega, inspired by reading Jack Kerouac's On the Road, joined the burgeoning Greenwich Village Beat scene in the late 1950s. As this documentary attests, she became a world traveler, and dedicated herself to political-activist verse. View more details

As We Cover the Streets: Janine Pommy Vega

Directed : Kurt Hemmer Tom Knoff

Written : Kurt Hemmer

Stars : Kurt Hemmer Janine Pommy Vega

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Genres : Biography Documentary Short

Release date : Nov 10, 2020

Countries of origin : United States

Language : English

Summary As We Cover the Streets: Janine Pommy Vega intersperses photographs and descriptions of Vega's peripatetic life with an extraordinary performance of her reading poetry from 2002. Vega, inspired by reading Jack Kerouac's On the Road, joined the burgeoning Greenwich Village Beat scene in the late 1950s. As this documentary attests, she became a world traveler, and dedicated herself to political-activist verse. View more details

Details

Genres : Biography Documentary Short

Release date : Nov 10, 2020

Countries of origin : United States

Language : English

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