Paley, Grace.


  • Rukeyser Reading Series: Grace Paley and Allen Ginsberg interviewed by Dennis Bernstein

    Rukeyser Reading Program on the Air. Part one: [30 min.] Dennis Bernstein interviews Grace Paley about her fight against the nuclear madness in America. She talks about the big lie about civil defense and the history of struggle against the evil effects of nuclear science and what can be done. Need for renewable resource living.…


  • A Conversation with Grace Paley / interviewed by Lin Harris. (Part 2 of 2)

    Paley reads and discusses four of her stories.


  • Feminist poetry reading / Grace Paley. (Part 2 of 3)

    Grace Paley (December 11, 1922 – August 22, 2007), feminist writer, reads poetry at the San Francisco Women’s Building on June 22, 1980 in a benefit for the War Resisters League. Also performing that night was Judy Grahn (see AZ0456). Recording also contains Grace Paley reading at U.C. Extension, Berkeley on June 19, 1980. Finally,…


  • Feminist poetry reading / Grace Paley. (Part 3 of 3)

    Grace Paley (December 11, 1922 – August 22, 2007), feminist writer, reads poetry at the San Francisco Women’s Building on June 22, 1980 in a benefit for the War Resisters League. Also performing that night was Judy Grahn (see AZ0456). Recording also contains Grace Paley reading at U.C. Extension, Berkeley on June 19, 1980. Finally,…


  • Judy Grahn and Grace Paley at the Women’s Building

    Poet and activist Judy Grahn and author Grace Paley speak at the Benefit for War Resisters League at the Women’s Building in San Francisco. The recording opens with the band Swing Shift performing the song “My girl.” Grahn’s reading here is the unedited version of the reading heard in AZ0456. Paley’s reading here is identical…


  • The Velvet Sledgehammer: June 29, 1983

    Production reel for June 29, 1983 episode of The Velvet Sledgehammer, produced and hosted by Eileen Zalisk. Three parts: 1. “Nothing lights a fire like a dream deferred,” a series of dramatic readings on the feminist response to militarism, produced by Phaye Poliakoff & Adina Back. Blanche Jackson, Lizzie Olesker, Phaye Poliakoff and Cherise[sp?] Williams…


  • May 6 Coalition rally / reported by Celeste Wesson and Lorne Cress-Love (Part 4 of 6)

    May 6 Coalition Rally / reported by Celeste Wesson and Lorne Cress-Love. Live coverage of the anti-nuclear rally attended by about 70,000 people. CONTENTS: Jane Fonda, Tom Hayden, John Hall, Jerry Brown, Grace Paley, Dick Gregory, Kurt Vonnegut, Jose Letelier, Graham Nash. RECORDED: 6 May 1979, in Washington, DC. BROADCAST: by Pacifica News Service.


  • Women and life on earth: ecofeminism in the 1980’s

    This program presents tapes selected and edited from a conference called Women and Life on Earth: Ecofeminism in the 1980’s, which took place March 21-23, 1980 at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst, Massachusetts. The conference explored the historical and present relations between feminist and ecological concerns. This program is devoted to one panel from…


  • Two stories from Little Disturbances of Man / written and read by Grace Paley.

    Author Grace Paley (1922-2007) reads two selections from her book “The Little Disturbances of Man: Stories of Men and Women at Love” (1959); 1. Good-bye and good luck (26 min.) 2. The Used boy raisers (29 min.). No intro nor production credits.


  • Feminist poetry reading / Grace Paley.

    Grace Paley (December 11, 1922 – August 22, 2007), feminist writer, reads poetry at the San Francisco Women’s Building on June 22, 1980 in a benefit for the War Resisters League. In Part 1, Paley reads the poems Two villages, Connections: Vermont Vietnam, and That country, and a short story, The story hearer. Also performing…