international poetry festival

Summer in America is typically the season of blockbusters. If you are looking for something more independent, film festivals and film organizations offer plenty of alternatives.

On July 12, the San Francisco Silent Film Festival will offer a special presentation of Jean Epstein's film from 1928, The Fall of the House of Usher.

Friends of the San Francisco Public Library, Mayor Gavin Newsom, Jack Hirschman and the San Francisco Public Library will present the second San Francisco International Poetry Festival.

The Other Words International Poetry Festival began in San Francisco in Fall 1999, organized by the consulates and cultural institutes of several European countries operating in San Francisco, working together with two or three locally-based literary and arts institutions.

This year's Festival will once again gather poets from different