John Singleton's lamented second effort POETIC JUSTICE, featured Janet Jackson as a young hairdresser/poet. Poetry was supplied by Maya Angelou. SHAKESPEARE IN LOVE certainly featured a few of the bard's sonnets. SLAM, which won at Sundance last year, is I believe about a young black ex-con rediscovering himself in the DC poetry slam scene. (It's available at Blockbuster). Also, I just saw THE LOVE LETTER, in which the aforementioned letter reads much like a poem and is repeated over and over again by its different readers. Susan Vaill University of Southern California School of Cinema-Television [log in to unmask] (323) 850-7070 ---- Screen-L is sponsored by the Telecommunication & Film Dept., the University of Alabama: http://www.tcf.ua.edu