Definition. Aya de León
Description
Aya de León is an African-American/Puerto Rican writer/poet/performer/teacher and activist who lives in the San Francisco Bay Area. Her style ranges from saucy, biting political irony to the lyrical faith of her prayer poetry. This documentary explores her artistic process, and the lives she touches as she moves through the world.
Runtime
27 min
Subjects
Contributor
Date of Publication
2007
Database
Alexander Street
Direct Link
Similar Films
Voices & visions. T. S. Eliot. 4
Blake, Carroll, Cummings, and Tennyson
Poetry in America. Harlem by Langston Hughes
A lesson from the best
Moyers & Company. The Power Behind Poetry
Limbo and night of the scorpion
Shakespeare, Thomas, Goodison, and Swift
Moloch
Moyers & Company. Rita Dove-Decoding the Language of Poetry
Poetry in America. The gray heron by Galway Kinnell
Poetry in America. N.Y. state of mind by Nas
Sunday morning. End of summer. Osgood poem
Frogments one
PBS newshour
Moyers & Company. Poet Christian Wiman on Love, Faith, and Cancer