Seven Dudley Cinema presents an evening of three documentaries profiling seminal poets. Lowell Blues: The Words of Jack Kerouac (2000, Henry Ferrini). The influence of the writer's home town on his art. Polis Is This: Charles Olson and the Persistence of Place (2007, Henry Ferrini). The modernist poet revealed through archival footage and interviews. John O'Keefe's Adaptation of Walt Whitman's Song of Myself (2007, William Farley). Filmed solo performance of Whitman's epic poem.

Mon., Feb. 16, 7 p.m., 2009

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