On Blue Collar Voices in Arthouse Film

I used to be a poet and academic. Few worlds have tighter gatekeeping. In the worlds of poetry and academic humanities, to make it through the gates to the next stage of your career, you have to offer something to the gatekeepers, something beyond the promise of making big bucks for them. Because high cultural gatekeepers usually aren’t looking to rake in the big bucks. They’re looking for something else.