Women poets

  • Rita Mae Brown at the Women’s Building : edited version.

  • Judith Emlyn Johnson reads her poetry

    Poet Judith Emlyn Johnson (Judith Johnson Sherwin) reads selections from her own work. Johnson was born and still lives in New York City. The poems on this program are from an unpublished book called Waste, written during that time. Author of Uranium, published in 1969, which won the Yale Younger Poets award; a book of…

  • Maureen Owen reads her poetry

    Poet Maureen Owen (b. 1943) reads selections from her own work. She is the author of two books “Country Rush” and “No Travels Journals”. She is also the editor of Telephone magazine and the Assistant Director of the St. Marks Poetry Project. Hosted by Susan Howe.

  • The Will to change / written and read by Adrienne Rich.

    Poet Adrienne Rich (1929 – 2012) reads selections of her work. Most of the poems read are from her book The will to change (W.W. Norton, 1971). Rich reads the following poems: Planetarium, I dream I’m the death of Orpheus, Letters: March 1969, Our whole life, Shooting script (excerpts), Trying to talk with a man,…

  • Laying down the tower / Marge Piercy.

    Poet, novelist and activist Marge Piercy (1936 – ) reads her eleven-poem sequence Laying Down the Tower, a radical meditation on the ancient symbols of the tarot deck – a political reading for the overturning of a repressed society. No intro or outro, and sound mostly audible in left channel only.

  • Poet Karen Stanley reads her work.

    Karen Stanley, 23-year-old Bay Area poet, reads selections of her work. Stanley was born and raised in Michigan and started writing at the age of 7. She resides in Oakland and works part-time as a mail carrier, and is also involved with the Good Earth Commune. The poems read include Of Oedipus and poets and…

  • Marianne Moore : reading at the University of Texas.

    Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Marianne Moore (1887 – 1972) reads her own works at the University of Texas, Austin in collaboration with the Ruth Stephan Poetry Center at the University of Arizona. She is introduced by David Gilbert, director of the University of Texas Press. Recorded by KUT-FM, Austin, TX.

  • Poems from uppity women / produced by Karen Lindsey

    A reading of poems by feminists Robin Morgan, Jean Tepperman, Lynn Strongin and Martha Shelley. Read by Karen Lindsey. Produced by Karen Lindsay. First appeared in WBAI’s April 1970 Folio. Tape box note: USH listened 9/25/70.

  • Poet May Swenson reads from her book To Mix With Time

    Poet May Swenson (1913-1989) reads selections from her forthcoming book of new and selected poems, To Mix with Time (Scribner, 1963). She is also the author of Another Animal (Scribner, 1964) and A Cage of Spines (Rinehart, 1958).

  • Oh, taste and see / Denise Levertov

    OH, TASTE AND SEE / Denise Levertov. – Poet reads selections of her work.- RECORDED: at the Poetry Center. BROADCAST: WBAI, 2 Mar. 1965.