Working classes — Poetry.


  • Interview with author Tillie Olsen on her book, Silences

    Interview with poet and author Tillie Olsen on her book, Silences, produced by Kathy Ann Kersey. The interview begins with Olsen speaking about her book and the circumstances for women writers. She asserts how much class impacts the life of writers. Her book, Silences describes those writers who are recognizable and those who are unknown.…


  • Blue Monday / produced by Brenda McCallum.

    Featuring narratives, poems and songs of industrial working-class America. Explores the world of green men, muckers, mule drivers, mantrips, doogaloo, popsickle unions, sandtoters, and snitchers.