Women poets

  • Poetry reading to benefit Out & Out Books

    Blanche Wiesen Cook hosts a poetry reading that took place May 11th of this year (1978) to benefit Out & Out Books, a feminist press. Poets include Charlotte Carter, June Jordan, Sarah Miles, Marilyn Hacker, Patricia Jones, Esther Newton, and Eugenie Urcell[sp?]. Produced by Donna Allegra.

  • Judy Grahn: Poetry and interview

    Laura Knowles interviews poet, writer and author Judy Grahn (1940 – ). Grahn talks about her youth in Las Cruces, New Mexico, her impetus for writing The Common Woman Poems, and her recent interest in exploring women’s history. The interview is interspersed with Grahn reading from her own books of poetry, such as She Who,…

  • The poetry of Joanna Brouk, Felicia Miller, and Lauren Pillsbury

    The poetry of Joanna Brouk, Felicia Miller and Lauren Pillsbury, interspersed with music by Joanna Brouk. Broadcast on Christmas Day, 1972. Rebirth of Innocence. Produced by Joanna Brouk.

  • Poet Rosalie Moore reads her work

    Bay Area poet Rosalie Moore (1910-2000) reads from her work and talks about her life. Poems read include Fog Crossing, Catalog, The Mind’s Disguise, Fear by Hanging, Dirge for the Living, and excerpts from her book Year of the Children (1977).

  • Poetry from Violence (Edited) / Glide Memorial Church, San Francisco

    Poetry from Violence (edited version), a poetry reading in conjunction with the San Francisco Conference on Violence Against Women (to be held December 4 & 5, 1976). This reading was held at Glide Memorial Church, San Francisco, November 19, 1976. Contents: Intro by Ruth Hughes, who reads a poem; Kathy Barr: A Woman Is Sitting…

  • Susan Griffin and Nellie Wong at the Feminist Perspectives on Pornography conference

    Susan Griffin, poet, playwright and author, and Nellie Wong, poet and activist, read on the opening night of the Feminist Perspectives on Pornography Conference in San Francisco on November 17, 1978, organized by Women Against Violence in Pornography and Media (WAVPM). Lilia Medina introduces the reading. Griffin reads her poem Deer Skull (for Hallie) and…

  • Women poets reading at Cody’s Bookstore (Part 1 only)

    Women’s poetry reading sponsored by the Berkeley Poets Commune, at Cody’s Bookstore on April 18, 1972. The poets are: Sharon Ulrich, Lynda Koolish, Barbara Gravelle, Judith Stevens, Susan Griffin, Jeanne Lance, Maggie Cloherty, and Rachel Nahem. Note: This is the first half of the reading. The second half of the same reading was scheduled for…

  • Marge Piercy: reading and thoughts

    Marge Piercy, poet and novelist, reads her poems and talks about poetry. She announces she has four books of poetry: Breaking Camp, Hard Loving, To Be of Use, and Living in the Open (at press now); and three novels: Going Down Fast (about urban renewal in Chicago), Dance Eagle to Sleep (60s youth movement) and…

  • Frances Jaffer

    The San Francisco-based poet Frances Jaffer (1921-1999) reads from her work, talks about her life and discusses feminist poetics with Shelley Messing. Produced by Messing for the Drama & Literature Department of WBAI with technical assistance from Viv Sutherland.

  • Four local Washington, D.C. poets / interviews by Grace Cavalieri (Part 2 of 2)

    “A poet is — a diary of the soul.” Thus begins one of Hazel Robinson’s poems and that thought is the theme of this program. Four local poets–Tamu Moore, Erskie Freeman, Mary Greer, and Hazel Robinson–read their poems and talk about how and why and when they write.