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...
Thursday Poetry Reading Part 2, 9/29/1994
00:00 video begins in the middle of Gerald W. Barrax speaking; 10:18 Toi Derricotte speaks; 27:54 E. Ethelbert Miller speaks; 41:23 John Keene opens floor to discussion; 41:50 Darrell Stover addresses panel; 42:18 Derricotte responds; 44:04 Miller r...
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...
The Dark Room Collective: A Fisted Reading Part 1, 10/1/1994
00:00 Eugene Redmond introduces Quo Vadis Gex-Breaux; 00:54 Gex-Breaux reads her poems; 08:25 Redmond introduces Daryl Cumber Dance; 12:05 Dance introduces "The Dark Room Collective" (TDC); 15:30 Natasha Tretheway of TDC reads; 16:50 Major Jackson r...