Gwendolyn Brooks and LeRoi Jones poetry reading

Part 1
00:45:28

Part 2
00:50:04

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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 "New Negro Poets U.S.A." anthology (ed. Langston Hughes, 1963). Brooks was the first African American writer to receive the Pulitzer Prize, and she was the poet laureate of the state of Illinois. Brooks was also the only female faculty member presenting at the conference. On the second reel Jones reads from his poetry for the first half of the recording, and the second half contains a lively question and answer session for both poets. During the discussion, the moderator asks Saunders Redding to read one of Brooks's poems.

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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 "New Negro Poets U.S.A." anthology (ed. Langston Hughes, 1963). Brooks was the first African American writer to receive the Pulitzer Prize, and she was the poet laureate of the state of Illinois. Brooks was also the only female faculty member presenting at the conference. On the second reel Jones reads from his poetry for the first half of the recording, and the second half contains a lively question and answer session for both poets. During the discussion, the moderator asks Saunders Redding to read one of Brooks's poems.

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Title	Gwendolyn Brooks and LeRoi Jones poetry reading
Creator	Redding, Saunders. speaker. Baraka, Amiri. speaker. Brooks, Gwendolyn. speaker.
Creator	Pacifica Radio Archive. KPFA (Radio station : Berkeley, Calif.).
Published	Los Angeles :, Pacifica Radio Archives,, 1964.
Extent	1 online resource.
Repository	Pacifica Radio Archives.
Reproduction Note	Electronic reproduction.
Grant Information	Sponsored by the National Historical Publications and Records Commission at the National Archives and Records Administration as part of Pacifica's American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 grant preservation project.
Usage Statement	RESTRICTED.
Tracks	PRA_NHPRC1_BB1910_0A_000_00.mp3 Part 1 00:45:28 PRA_NHPRC1_BB1910_0B_000_00.mp3 Part 2 00:50:04
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Gwendolyn Brooks and LeRoi Jones poetry reading

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