Poetry in Motion Festival

APRIL 17 at 4:15 pm: “Baddddd Sonia Sanchez.” For 80-year-old Sonia Sanchez, writing is both a personal and political act. She emerged as a seminal figure in the 1960s Black Arts Movement, raising her voice in the name of black culture, civil rights, women’s liberation and peace. Maya Angelou called her “a lion in literature’s forest,” and in this spirited film we understand why.

APRIL 17 at 7 pm: “Alice Walker: Beauty in Truth.” This exquisite and intimate documentary tells the compelling story of an extraordinary woman’s journey from her birth in a paper-thin shack in the cotton fields of Georgia to her recognition as a key writer of 20th century America.

This is what SF/Arts curator Sura Wood had to say about Poetry in Motion Festival: Apr 17 :

“Pratibha Parmar’s doc follows “The Color Purple” author from her birth in a shack in the cotton fields of rural Georgia to her experiences as a civil rights activist in the South to her work as a contributing editor at Ms. Magazine. The film, which explores Walker’s identities as an African-American, Southerner and the first black woman to win the Pulitzer Prize, includes interviews with Danny Glover, Steven Spielberg and Gloria Steinem. “