Soldofsky, Alan. – Pacifica Radio Archives

Alice Walker reads poetry: Good Night, Willie Lee, I’ll see you in the morning / Alan Soldofsky

Alice Walker, Black woman poet and novelist, reads from her new book of poetry “Good night, Willie Lee, I’ll see you in the morning” at Cody’s Bookstore in Berkeley on September 26th, 1979. Walker reads some poems that are not featured in the book. Poems read include I said to poetry, On sight, Overnights, If…

August 24, 2025

Women’s sexual writing / produced by Jana Harris and Alan Soldofsky.

Jana Harris discusses women’s sexual writing with Carol Bergé, editor of Center Magazine and author of Acts of Love and Poems Made of Skin, and Lenore Kandel, poet, author of The Love Book and Word Alchemy. Topics covered are the differences between the erotic and the pornographic, how large and small presses deal with sensitive…

August 24, 2025

Women and nature / produced by Alan Soldofsky.

Poet and feminist Susan Griffin reads from her book of prose, “Woman and Nature: the roaring inside her” (Harper & Row, 1978). Griffin reads the sections Prologue, Gravity, The garden, Consequences (What always returns), The lion in the den of the prophets, Vision, and Erosion. The reading was recorded in November 1978 at Cody’s Books…

August 24, 2025

KPFA poetry festival (1977) / recorded by Randy Thom and Doug Maisel.

KPFA Poetry Festival May 14, 1977. From the folio: “On Saturday, May 14, U.C.’s S.U.P.E.R.B. Productions will present what will be the biggest poetry reading staged in the Bay Area since the Vietnam era, and perhaps the biggest ever. And all on behalf of raising funds for KPFA! KPFA and Pacifica have long been an…

August 24, 2025

KPFA stop the war teach-in / produced by Laurie Garrett and Anita Frankel.

Excerpts from the aircheck of the recorded event. |r.l. Introduction. — r.2. Michael Klare and William Mandel (35 min.). — r.3. Robert Manning (15 min.). — r.4. George Wald (25 min.). — r.5. Alan Soldofsky and Michael Lerner (30 min.). — r.6. Peter Dale Scott (15 min.). — r.7. Doug Dowd (15 min.). — r.8.…

August 24, 2025