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
Directed : Kurt Hemmer Tom Knoff
Written : Kurt Hemmer
Stars : Kurt Hemmer Janine Pommy Vega
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
Genres : Biography Documentary Short
Release date : Nov 10, 2020
Countries of origin : United States
Language : English
