Hey, thanks for stopping by. Here's what's new. My third book of poems, "Some Help from the Dead" will be out Oct. 2010 from Red Hen Press. Stay tuned for readings and signings
Poet, filmmaker and author, Ally Acker has published three collections of poems, Surviving Desire (Garden Street Press, 1994), Waiting for the Beloved (Red Hen Press, 1999) and
Some Help From the Dead (Red Hen, 2010)
Equally prolific as a filmmaker, Acker has directed ten documentaries, Filmmakers on Film, based on her ground-breaking book, Reel Women:Pioneers of the Cinema, The First Hundred Years . Reel Women has also been made into an interactive CD-ROM hosted by Jodie Foster.
Ally Acker is the director/writer/producer of The Flowering of the Crone: Leonora Carrington, Another Reality . The film is the first feature length documentary to be produced about the renowned Surrealists life and work in the United States.
Acker is the author of the blog Reel Women Post! (www.reelwomen.com) She is also on the board of the literary journal, Poetry Salzburg Review.
Ally Acker lives in New York with her Terrier/Poodle, (or Noodle Poodle as she prefers to be known), the loqucious Maggie Poppie.
Click here to hear me on Morning Edition ,NPR . A piece about the pioneering Ida Lupino ...
Also visit:
Reel Women Media!
Ally Acker 's third collection continues her fascination with how the familiar proves to be mysterious, how the present, past and future all to merge as our lives progress. Acker listens for the lyrical cadences of nature on what is lost, and found again. "AS GOOD AS W.S. MERWIN AT HIS BEST." Released Oct. 2010, through Red Hen Press.
Two Volume 2010 update of Ally Acker's ground-breaking work, charting the pioneering female filmmakers who transformed filmmaking since 1896. Released Oct. 2010 through Reel Women Media
Ally Acker's second collection of poems. Jane Hirshield wrote of this: "Here is a brave transparency to existence and all it brings." Purchase at Red Hen Press
Ally Acker's first collection of poems. "How fully our erotic lives can engage our deepest spiritual longings is the continual re-discovery of these brave, charged poems." WILLIAM MATTHEWS Purchase at: reelwomen.com
JODIE FOSTER hosts this remarkable interactive journey of the pioneering female filmmakers who transformed the medium of film since 1896. Based on Ally Acker's ground-breaking book of the same title. Purchase at reelwomen.com
Ten documentaries on the different crafts of film: Directing, Producing, Screenwriting, Editing, and a Herstory historic overview. Includes interviews with influential Hollywood filmmakers. Purchase at reelwomen.com
"The FLOWERING OF THE CRONE: Leonora Carrington, Another Reality" First full length documentary of the life and work of this enigmatic Surrealist produced in America. Purchase at reelwomen.com
Me and my gal having fun on Fire Island
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Reel Women Media
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Ally Acker 's third collection continues her fascination with how the familiar proves mysterious, how the present, past and future all merge as our lives progress. "AS GOOD AS W.S. MERWIN AT HIS BEST."
Ally Acker's second collection of poems. Jane Hirshield wrote of this: "Here is a brave transparency to existence and all it brings."
Ally Acker's first collection of poems. "How fully our erotic lives can engage our deepest spiritual longings is the continual re-discovery of these brave, charged poems." WILLIAM MATTHEWS
Ally Acker reading...
From Surviving Desire :
White Noise at Midnight
From Waiting for the Beloved :
The Silk Kimono
From Some Help From the Dead :
Betrayal
SOME HELP FROM THE DEAD
Red Hen Press Oct. 2010
Two Volume 2010 update of Ally Acker's ground-breaking work, charting the pioneering female filmmakers who transformed filmmaking since 1896. Available Oct. 2010 from Reel Women Media.
Ally Acker 's third collection continues her fascination with how the familiar proves to be mysterious, how the present, past and future all to merge as our lives progress. Acker listens for the lyrical cadences of nature on what is lost, and found again. "AS GOOD AS W.S. MERWIN AT HIS BEST."
Links...
REEL WOMEN MEDIA
RED HEN PRESS
POETRY SALZBURG REVIEW
