Special Feature: Black Women in the Archives
Selected by poet Arisa White, this group of historic recordings features original Poetry Center readings by Ai, Maya Angelou, Gwendolyn Brooks, Lucille Clifton, Jayne Cortez, Wanda Coleman, Audre Lorde, June Jordan, and Pat Parker. Fourteen featured recordings of nine poets range across four decades—from October 1971, as Maya Angelou reads and remarks on her poems collected after the grand success of her autobiography, I Know the Caged Bird Sings, to April 2013, when Wanda Coleman in one of her last (more)
The Poetry Center presents Maya Angelou, reading and commenting on her poems from the book Just Give Me a Cool Drink of...
Date: 10/14/1971
The Poetry Center presents Audre Lorde, reading her poems from New York Head Shop and Museum (Broadside Press, 1974) as...
Date: 09/26/1974
The Poetry Center presents Ai, reading poetry from her book Cruelty, published by Houghton Mifflin in 1973, and from as...
Date: 11/14/1974
The Poetry Center presents June Jordan reading her poetry, from the collection Things That I Do in the Dark: 1954-1977...
Date: 04/20/1977
The Poetry Center presents Wanda Coleman reading from her book of poems, Mad Dog Black Lady (Black Sparrow Press,1979).
Date: 10/14/1982
The Poetry Center presents Jayne Cortez [as part of a program shared with French novelist and feminist theorist Monique...
Date: 04/12/1985
The Poetry Center presents Wanda Coleman, performing her poetry as part of the Women Working in Literature Conference, at...
Date: 04/14/1985
The Poetry Center Presents Pat Parker and Audre Lorde reading at the Women's Building in San Francisco. Pat Parker...
Date: 02/07/1986
The Poetry Center presents Lucille Clifton, reading at the San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery. Clifton reads and...
Date: 04/02/1987
The Poetry Center presents June Jordan reading her essay "Requiem for the Champ" (written in response to boxer...
Date: 04/15/1993
The Poetry Center presents Gwendolyn Brooks, reading at Wheeler Hall, the University of California, Berkeley, at an event...
Date: 04/21/1997
The Poetry Center co-presents June Jordan, acclaimed poet, essayist, political activist, and professor of Afro American...
Date: 08/20/1998
The Poetry Center, in collaboration with giovanni singleton and Nocturnes Review, presents Jayne Cortez and LaTasha N....
Date: 10/30/2007
The Poetry Center presents Wanda Coleman, recipient of the 2011 Poetry Center Book Award, for The World Falls Away...
Date: 04/04/2013