LOCATION: Minder's School of Business, Kerr-McGee Auditorium

“PICTURING POETRY,” a new annual offering of a film about poetry, in conjunction with the spring Thatcher Hoffman Smith Poetry Series 

Join us Wednesday, April 4, 2017 for readings by Pulitzer-winning poet Yusef Komunyakaa

A slice-of-life drama from Cannes Grand Prix winner Jim Jarmusch (Broken Flowers, Down By Law), Paterson is perhaps the best argument for individual creativity ever put to film. In the small city of Paterson, New Jersey, a young bus driver hides amongst the bustle and flow of daily life. Averse to all digital distractions, he spends his days aiding a zealously “do-it-yourself” girlfriend, meeting with friends at a local bar, and crafting poems in a journal kept secret from the world. An examination of the ever-changing relationship between art and life, the picture crafts an emotionally complex fable of working class versification and personal poetry. With an intimate performance from Emmy-nominated actor Adam Driver, the film is a love letter to art for art’s sake, an unassuming, unflinching, and entirely unpretentious portrait of the artist as an everyman.