This is a special Double-Feature! Both screenings are followed by Q&As moderated by Jeff M. Giordano.

Poet Neeli Cherkovski (It’s Nice To Be With You Always) and director Anita Chang (Tongues of Heaven) are expected to be in attendance!

First up we have: It’s Nice To Be With You Always directed by Kyle Harvey.

This is a documentary that blends together cinéma-vérité style footage and conversations to create an intimate portrait of the poet Neeli Cherkovski.

Imagine being dropped into the middle of a poem!

Neeli Cherkovski is the author of many books of poetry, including Elegy For My Beat Generation (2018) From the Canyon Outward (2009), and The Crow and I (2015). He was the co-editor of Anthology of L.A. Poets (with Charles Bukowski) and Cross-Strokes: Poetry between Los Angeles and San Francisco. Cherkovski also wrote biographies of Lawrence Ferlinghetti and Charles Bukowski, as well as the critical memoir Whitman’s Wild Children (1988). His papers are held at…