Capital Heartbreak & Sweetness: 17 DC Poets (2002)

In the digital video documentary "Capital Heartbreak & Sweetness: 17 DC Poets", a select and diverse group of Washington, DC area poets perform their romantic, political, and spiritual poems. Topics addressed in the poems include: an unsolved local murder, the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, infatuation with a Mexican movie star, lessons learned from a failed relationship, the comfort of sex, hope of intense love, racial conflicts observed and experienced by new immigrants, a little known fact about a famous ancestor, the down side of being able to fly, facing life with faith and desire, and an entertaining attempt to create an opera using six words. The film is a celebration of creativity and Washington, DC.