Purchase the Poet of Poverty DVD

This is a film about one man's words. These are the words of an Irish priest who came to Camden, New Jersey, forty years ago and never left. They are the extraordinary words of a natural-born poet, Father Michael Doyle, the Poet of Poverty.

Father Doyle's words bear witness to a horrendous crime: the total neglect of America's poorest city, Camden, New Jersey. They began as words written for monthly letters that serve as a lifeline to those who support his church. But, as a friend once told Doyle, these prose-poem letters are really his ministry.

Using Michael Doyle's letters as its subject, the film is a record of his parish and city – a month after month, year after year documentation of the consequences of poverty. Camden, already poor when Doyle arrived, now resembles nothing more than a bombed-out urban landscape. "Yet we have to live in the meantime," writes Doyle. And his letters are a testimony to the lives lived amidst urban decay, drug trade, murders, and prostitution. As well as to lives lived in a dumping ground, filled with everything that the surrounding wealthy communities don't want in their own back yards: sewage, trash, scrap metal, and prisons.

You can view the trailer for the film at this link

The price of the DVD is $22 including postage and handling for delivery in the US. Fr. Michael's portion of the sales, 25%, goes to the Center for Environmental Transformation.

Send a check to The Center, 1729 Ferry Ave., Camden, NJ 08104. Please write "DVD" in the memo portion of your check.

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