Metzger, Deena.

  • The poet’s voice (Episode 5)

    This is the fifth episode of “The poet’s voice,” likely KPFK broadcasted tapes of a televised program called “The poet’s voice,” a Theta Cable Television series from Los Angeles, January 1980. The host was TV actor and poet Macdonald Carey (1913-1994) and the poets read their work in front of an audience. This episode includes…

  • Deena Metzger (Part 4 of 4)

    Deena Metzger reads selections her book of poems “Dark milk” (Los Angeles: Momentum Press, 1978) and an excerpt from her novel “Flying” (unpublished) and discusses her work with Everett Frost. The poems she reads are Daphne — Dawn — Apricot poem — Marketing — Little league women — Cows — Dalila — Oasis.

  • Jehovah’s child : the case of Deena Metzger

    Excerpts from a press conference that was held on Wednesday, September 17, 1969 concerning the case Deena Metzger and Leslie Hoag, both teachers at Los Angeles Valley College. Both women were suspended from their teaching jobs for assigning Metzger’s poem “Jehovah’s Child,” which was deemed obscene by the junior college’s Board of Trustees, to their…

  • Personal disarmament / Deena Metzger ; produced by Helene Rosenbluth.

    Speech by poet and healer Deena Metzger at the Women’s Solstice Summer Camp. She speaks about the need for individuals to look within to uncover our personal armament, how we stockpile them, and how we can disengage. This is the necessary first step, she argues, before we can push for governments to disarm.|PERSONAL DISARMAMENT :…

  • The poet’s voice (Series record)

    This is the series record for the series “The poet’s voice,” that was aired during “Afternoon air” hour on Fridays in June and July 1982. The series is likely KPFK broadcasting tapes of a televised program called “The poet’s voice” from 1979 (no broadcast information available). The host was television actor and poet Macdonald Carey…

  • The Book of hags / by Deena Metzger ; adapted and directed by Everett Frost.

    A novel-in-progress by Deena Metzger dramatized for radio by Everett Frost. The work is a feminist testament to the attempt by women to join inner to outer experience so as to overcome a world conditioned by murder, rape, death, cancer and madness. The drama focuses on four women – Diana, the writer; Arda, the witness;…

  • Contemporary writing / produced by Alvaro Cardona-Hine

    Throughout February 1972, KPFK broadcast a show on women writers, produced by Everett Frost and Alvaro Cardona-Hine. The April 1972 program featured a male writer. |r.1. Rosella Pace (47 min.) — r.2. Barbara Hughes (49 min.) — r.3. Deena Metzger (60 min.) — r.4. Holly Prado (50 min.) — r.5. missing — r.6. Sid Gershgoren…