Poetry Everywhere, on Transit TV, too

Sounds like a festival, with a bus showing videos, balloons, and free food from Cafe Hollander--fun for the entire family:

A launch party for Poetry Everywhere, a locally grown national project will be Tuesday April 29, 7pm, Downer Avenue - Harry W. Schwartz Bookshop (2559 N. Downer Ave).

Fifteen animated Poetry Everywhere films created by students working with docUWM, a documentary media center at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, and the university's creative writing program, in association with the Poetry Foundation, will debut online and on Transit TV throughout the coming months. Aiming to focus a new generation of filmmakers on poetry as subject matter, the project encouraged film students to read widely from the canon of contemporary poetry and, working closely with poets and scholars, effectively translate poetry to the screen using an array of film and animation techniques. The docUWM films feature a wide range of contemporary poems and poets, including Lucille Clifton's "mulberry fields," Robert Creeley's "The Language," and Lyn Hejinian's "Eleven Eyes."

More info:

Journal Sentinel
PBS/WGBH
Poetry Foundation

iTunes

More info on the event is at Harry Schwartz's website.