Correspondence #5: Ron Whitehead

Kentucky's greatest poet since the Louisville Lip has his work and achievement suitably foregrounded as post-Beat bard, spoken word spokesman and renegade rocker launches a life on film

Dear Readers,

I had this interesting message from the great poet Ron Whitehead and wanted to share it with you crowd also: a new documentary with a star-studded literary and musical cast…

Email, March 13th, 2022

Hi Simon,

Important Ticket Sales Update on:

OUTLAW POET: The Legend of Ron Whitehead

Tickets will go On Sale in One Week for The World Premiere Louisville Screening on Friday, April 29th, 2022, then Pay Per View available for one or two weeks, before it goes to distributor.

‘America was born out of folktales, the stories of folks who created amazing lives, lives birthed from dreams and blood and guts and bones and sweat and tears. Strong willed determined souls. OUTLAW POET: The Legend of Ron Whitehead is an original American folktale, the raw story of the one and only wild nature. Kentucky farm boy Ron Whitehead, who created a global literary renaissance.’

The 75-minute film includes performances, tours, interviews, narratives from the farms and coal mines of Kentucky to New York City to New Orleans to Woody Creek to San Francisco to The Redwood Forests to The Sequoia National Forest to The Mojave Desert to The Grand Canyon to Nicaragua to Brazil to The Netherlands to Ireland to Scotland to England to Portugal to Greece to Iceland to Denmark to Norway to Finland to Estonia and more!

The film features never before seen footage of family and friends and of folks Ron worked with including His Holiness The Dalai Lama, Allen Ginsberg, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Gregory Corso, Diane di Prima, Amiri Baraka, Hunter S. Thompson, Johnny Depp, Warren Zevon, Seamus Heaney, David Amram, Anita Thompson, Lee Pennington, Douglas Brinkley, Kent Fielding, Gill Holland, Mayor Greg Fischer, Frank Messina, Michael Dean Odin Pollock, Thomas Attar Bellier, Al Paldrok, Doris Kareva, Olafur Gunnarsson, and so many more!

I invite each and every one of you to buy the ticket and take the ride! Tickets for The World Premiere Louisville Screening will go fast so be ready to order yours! I'll be sharing ticket sales info here first, before it hits the streets!

Also, throughout 2022 I'll be sharing back stories of the film, of my life, on my Patreon page, https://www.patreon.com/creator-home , as I build the storied outline for an autobiography, or biography. You can sign up at the $3 level, or a higher level. At some of the higher levels I will also edit your book or chapbook. I've edited works by some of the world's leading cultural heroes.

Thank you all!!

See you at The World Premiere Louisville Screening!!

Ron Whitehead, U.S. National Beat Poet Laureate