44 pages : 21 cm
Topics: Zephaniah, Benjamin, Poets, English -- 20th century -- Biography, Poets, Black -- Great Britain --...

44 pages : 22 cm
Topics: Zephaniah, Benjamin -- Juvenile literature, Zephaniah, Benjamin, Poets, Black -- Biography --...

48 pages : 25 cm
Topics: Zephaniah, Benjamin. -- Criticism and interpretation -- Juvenile literature, Zephaniah, Benjamin,...

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Topics: Zephaniah, Benjamin. -- Juvenile literature, Zephaniah, Benjamin. -- Criticism and interpretation...

In this program of poetry, discussion and music dedicated to Angela Davis, two young Black women, Jeanette Henderson, wife and mother, and Linda Taylor, student, read the works of Black women poets Sojourner Truth, Jeanette MacDonald, Gwendolyn Brooks, Charlene Grant and Brown poet, Inglacia Delagente. Black liberation and its relationship to white women's liberation, and the Black family are discussed. The music is by Billie Holliday and Roberta Flack. Dupulicate of recording BB5133.
Topics: Black women -- Social conditions., Henderson, Jeanette., Poets, Black., Women's movement, Blacks --...
Source: http://pacificaradioarchives.org/american-women-making-history-and-culture-1963-1982

In this program of poetry, discussion and music dedicated to Angela Davis, two young Black women, Jeanette Henderson, wife and mother, and Linda Taylor, student, read the works of Black women poets Sojourner Truth, Jeanette MacDonald, Gwendolyn Brooks, Charlene Grant, and a poem titled "Inside the Church of the People" by an anonymous poet. Black liberation and its relationship to white women's liberation, and the Black family are discussed. The music is by Billie Holliday and Roberta...
Topics: Henderson, Jeanette., Women, Black -- Personal narratives., Poets, Black., American Women Making...
Source: http://pacificaradioarchives.org/american-women-making-history-and-culture-1963-1982

Ntozake Shange, the black feminist poet, author of "For colored girls who have considered suicide, when the rainbow is enuf," is interviewed by Clare Spark on The Sour Apple Tree. Shange discusses reactions to her work and emphasizes how the poems are misperceived by many critics. Ends with a one-minute cut from the album of the 1977 Broadway production of "For colored girls who have considered suicide, when the rainbow is enuf." The piece is performed by Trazana Beverley....
Topics: Shange, Ntozake., Poets, Black., Poetry, Modern., Women authors, Feminism, African American women...
Source: http://pacificaradioarchives.org/american-women-making-history-and-culture-1963-1982

This is a recording of the session during which Gwendolyn Brooks and LeRoi Jones (Amiri Baraka) read from their own poetry at the Negro Writers conference at Asilomar in August 1964. "The Negro writer in the United States" was a five-day seminar hosted by the University of California at Berkeley Extension Program, held at the Asilomar State Park in California, August 5-9, 1964. This first reel is of Gwendolyn Brooks reading her poetry and prose, beginning with her foreword to the...
Topics: Poets, Black, African American poets, The Negro writer in United States conference -- Asilomar,...
Source: http://pacificaradioarchives.org/american-women-making-history-and-culture-1963-1982

This is a recording of the session during which Gwendolyn Brooks and LeRoi Jones (Amiri Baraka) read from their own poetry at the Negro Writers conference at Asilomar in August 1964. "The Negro writer in the United States" was a five-day seminar hosted by the University of California at Berkeley Extension Program, held at the Asilomar State Park in California, August 5-9, 1964. This first reel is of Gwendolyn Brooks reading her poetry and prose, beginning with her foreword to the...
Topics: Poets, Black, African American poets, The Negro writer in United States conference -- Asilomar,...
Source: http://pacificaradioarchives.org/american-women-making-history-and-culture-1963-1982

William Butler Yeats To Helen Vendler To accomplish the simplicity Of words that learned how to dance Without much support from a dancer Who learned the steps of deserved living From the vigor of his dancing mind. Is it a dance or the dancer? Is it to live or to be lived? It was not the dancer, but the dancing; It was not the life, but the living mind; The truth of living found in dancing. If he had chosen only to live, The dance would have been much less lively. It was the dancer who followed...
Topics: William Butler Yeats, Dejan Stojanovic, Helen Vendler, poets, poetry, poems, great poets, Nobel...