American Women — Poetry
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I’m a woman– W-O-M-A-N
Special program for International Women’s Day. Includes conversation, music, and poetry by, for, and about women. Begins with a reading of quotes by famous men in history that castigate women. Also includes readings of Jean Tepperman, Sylvia Plath, Lucy Crawford, Judy Grahn, Susan Griffin, and others, interspersed with songs sung by Ruthie Gorton and other…
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Poetry occasional: two lady poets
Poetry reading. Henrietta Weigel and Helene Mullins are two lady poets who share much in common. They are both New Yorkers currently living in the Village, both have written and published novels, and both have novels in progress at the time of this interview. In this program, both poets read from their own material, and…
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Poems / written and read by Muriel Rukeyser.
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Interview with Maureen Owen, publisher of Telephone Books and Telephone magazine; interviewed by Doug Lang.
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Four local Washington, D.C. poets / interviews by Hazel Robinson
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Among all this, you stand like a fine brownstone : Gwendolyn Brooks / produced by Taliba Holliday.
Poet Gwendolyn Brooks (1917 – 2000), the first Black woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for poetry in 1950, speaks with WPFW’s Kathy Anderson and Angelo Gregory on location at Washington, D.C.’s Black Repertory Theatre, where a play based on her work entitled “Among All This, You Stand Like a Fine Brownstone” was being staged.…
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Four women poets / Diana Vance, Nefretete, Deirdra Baldwin, and Ann Leffler ; interviewed by Grace Cavalieri
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Poems from a woman’s experience/ written and read by Clara Kern
A woman’s voice – Features poetry written and read by producer/poet Clara Kern. Broadcast July 1982. (Previously titled “A woman’s voice: Circa 40s” with the note: “Circa 40s” meaning the impact of sexual attitudes of the 1940s upon women,” however this program doesn’t seem to relate to this topic. Probably mislabeled.)