Alice Walker at San Jose State University: April 10, 1976

The Poetry Center presents Alice Walker, reading from her short prose and poetry, at the Conference on Inter-American Women Writers. The location is San Jose State University. Critic Naomi Clark introduces Walker, who reads from her first book of short stories, In Love & Trouble: Stories of Black Women, and from her second book of poetry, Revolutionary Petunias & Other Poems (both published by Harcourt Brace Jovanovich in 1973).

Note: for the first 10 minutes of the recording, black and white video stills are posted over the missing video; audio is intact throughout. For much of the program, a student photographer appears on stage close up within the frame. 

Publisher
American Poetry Archives
Location
San Jose State University, San Jose, California
Date
1976-04-10
Event Run Time
00:38:00
Contributors
Naomi Clark
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Alice Walker (00:34:14)

Alice Walker opens with her story "Roselilly." She then reads and remarks at length on her poems, including "Talking to My Grandmother, Who Died Poor Some Years Ago, While Listening to Richard Nixon Declare, 'I am not a crook,'" the eight-part "In These Dissenting Times," and "Women," "Three Dollars Cash," "You Had to Go to Funerals," "For My Sister Molly Who in the Fifties," "Gift," "Thief," "Rage,"  and "What The Finger Writes." Walker closes the reading with an untitled poem, written "for all people who are constantly being told that what they want is not the right thing."

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