Women writers

  • Virginia Woolf: voices that fly ahead / produced by Maureen McIlroy (Part 2 of 2)

    Part two of a documentary on Virginia Woolf, her work, and her life, based on the letters, diaries, and published works of Virginia and Leonard Woolf, in an original production for KPFK by Maureen McIlroy. Madness, love and death are among the themes traced through Virginia Woolf’s life into her novels. The KPFK Folio description…

  • Racism in the Women’s movement (Part 1 only)

    In this program, guests talk about the racism forum “Racism in the Women’s movement: how to fight it,” sponsored by the Women Writers Union and Radical Women, and held at the Women’s Building in San Francisco. They are: Suki Durham, member of both organizations, Max Regal, member of the Seattle Radical Women; Ann Finger, organizer…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • Barbara Hughes (Part 3 of 4)

    Barbara Hughes reads from and comments on her poetry in a program produced and hosted by Alvaro Cardona-Hine. She reads from two different poetry manuscripts, the first of which is untitled, the second tentatively titled “Not called anything.” Hughes was born in Connecticut, graduated from Albertus Magnus College in New Haven, and teaches English as…

  • 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.

  • Holly Prado (Part 2 of 4)

    Holly Prado reads from her manuscript “Signs” and discusses her poetry in a program hosted and produced by Alvaro Cardona-Hine. Prado was born in 1938, grew up in Nebraska and Michigan, graduated from Albion College in Michigan and moved to Los Angeles shortly thereafter. Edited by Petrie Mason.

  • Rosella Pace (Part 1 of 4)

    Alvaro Cardona-Hine introduces poet Rosella Pace, who reads from her own work. Her reading is interspersed with conversation between Pace and the host. Rosella Pace is from Minnesota, studied at University of Minnesota, and has been published in Poetry Review Tampa, Euphoria, and Monument.