African American Poetry and the Vernacular Matrix Part 2, 9/29/1994
00:00 Video begins in the middle of Eleanor W. Traylor speaking; 04:40 Alvin Aubert introduces Sherley Anne Williams; 04:52 Williams begins speaking; Remainder of video is duplicate of FF0031 ending after the panel discusses Monifa Love's question
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...
Furious Flower 1: Initiates
00:10 Introduction begins, Joanne V. Gabbin narrates; 01:25 Elizabeth Alexander reads "What I'm Telling You"; 02:45 Alexander reads "Butter"; 04:00 "At the Beach (Dedicated to Melvin Dixon)"; 05:10 The Dark Room Collective segment begins; 05:15 Nata...
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...
Thursday Poetry Reading Part 1, 9/29/1994
00:00 Loud signal test; 00:40 Thomas Sayers Ellis begins speaking, introduces Michael S. Harper (bad audio); 05:45 Harper speaks; 29:00 Joanne V. Gabbin announces break before panel; 34:09 John Keene opens panel; 39:27 Elizabeth Alexander speaks; 54...
African American Poetry and the Vernacular Matrix Part 1, 9/29/1994
00:05 video begins in the middle of Alvin Aubert introducing Roundtable panel discussion; 01:25 Aubert stands and presents; 11:40 Elizabeth Alexander speaks; 38:17 Aubert introduces Eleanor W. Traylor; 38:38 Traylor speaks; video ends during Traylor...
Furious Flower 1994 Conference Supercut Part 1
00:45 Joanne V. Gabbin speaks; 01:45 Steven Wright plays drums; 04:47 Gabbin speaks; 05:47 Susan Facknitz speaks; 11:24 Jacqueline Brice-Finch speaks; 12:50 C. B. Claiborne speaks; 18:22 Ronald E. Carrier speaks; 22:20 Doris Hunt speaks; 23:30 Val G...
African American Poetry and the Vernacular Matrix Part 3, 9/29/1994
00:00 Sherley Anne Williams speaks; 18:20 Alvin Aubert speaks; 19:45 Joanne V. Gabbin instructs participants; 19:52 Darrell Stover addresses the panel; 21:13 Elizabeth Alexander responds to Stover; 21:57 Eleanor W. Traylor responds to Stover; 24:21 ...
Elizabeth Alexander Interview, 9/23/2004
Meta DuEwa Jones interviews Elizabeth Alexander, camera stays on Alexander