Furious Flower 1994 Conference Supercut Part 2
01:09 Elizabeth Alexander reads "LA by Night" (video is glitchy); 02:47 Gerald W. Barrax reads "And Tell the Girls to Pray for Me" and two other poems; 04:10 video regains normalcy; 19:20 Toi Derricotte speaks and reads; 36:55 E. E. Ethelbert Miller...
Furious Flower 1994 Conference Supercut Part 7
00:00 Joanne V. Gabbin opens session, bad audio; 01:45 Lamont B. Steptoe speaks; 02:28 Gabbin speaks; 03:08 Carmen Gillespie speaks; 04:10 Eugene Redmond opens panel; 10:03 Gabbin speaks; 13:53 Alvin Aubert speaks and reads; 21:15 Redmond speaks; 21...
Seers II
00:38 Introduction begins, Joanne V. Gabbin narrates; 01:53 Joyce Owens Pettis interviews Gerald W. Barrax; 06:52 Barrax reads "Jeopardy"; 11:29 Barrax reads "Sunday 24 May 1992 10:30a.m."; 17:30 Eugenia W. Collier interviews E. Ethelbert Miller; 19...
"Amen Corner" by James Baldwin, First Performance
00:00 Joanne V. Gabbin speaks and introduces play; 02:50 performance begins; 2:02:24 video cuts out during performance
Soul Talk Part 1
00:00 Joanne V. Gabbin introduces Akasha Gloria Hull; 03:12 Hull reads her poem "These Bones, These Bones"; 13:00 Hull has audience read Lucille Clifton's "Cutting Greens"--followed by discussion; 22:15 Clifton's "The Killing of the Trees" is read f...
Lucille Clifton's Blessings and Mercies: Keith Leonard
00:00 Joanne V. Gabbin introduces Keith Leonard; 01:26 Leonard begins lecture on Lucile Clifton; 15:20 audio goes out; 36:59 audio comes back in, Q&A/Discussion for remainder of video
Regenerating the Black Poetic Tradition (Rough Cut), 2004
00:10 Introduction begins; 00:40 Joanne V. Gabbin narrates; 01:35 Houston A. Baker reads "This is Not a Poem"; 02:55 Jerry Washington Ward interviews Baker; 10:51 footage of Baker speaking about Gwendolyn Brooks at Conference; 12:33 Monifa Love inte...
Regenerating the Black Poetic Tradition, 2004
00:00 video begins with montage of poets reading at 2004 conference; 00:35 Joanne V. Gabbin narrates; 01:32 Daryl Cumber Dance interviews Velma Pollard; 09:55 Tyehimba Jess interviews Kwame Senu Neville Dawes; 16:34 Dawes reads "Ward Twenty-One"; 20...
Elders I
00:42 Introduction begins, Joanne V. Gabbin narrates; 02:00 Jerry Washington Ward interviews Samuel W. Allen; 09:50 Allen reads "The Apple Trees in Sussex"; 16:05 Allen reads "Harriet Tubman"; 25:37 Allen reads "Law & Order: The Immigrant"; 29:24 Va...
Friday Keynote Speeches Part 2, 9/30/1994
00:00 Continuance of Gwendolyn Brooks speaking and reading (from part 1); 46:30 tribute to Brooks by Haki R. Madhubuti; 51:27 tribute from Joanne V. Gabbin