American Women — Poetry

  • Woman to woman

    This is a recording of a poetry reading of Holly Prado’s writing workshop, recorded at the Los Angeles Woman’s Building. The readers are Sharon Immergluck, Sue Taylor, Cindy Bellinger, Judith Gold, Vicki Bregger[sp?], Judy Brown, Joanna Prudell[sp?], Susan Bechaud, and Syl Booth. Produced by Susan Bechaud.

  • What the woman lived : Louise Bogan in her letters and poems / produced by Rick Harris and Bill Kortum

    A dramatization of poet Louise Bogan’s (1897-1970) life recorded in May 1975 at the Manhattan Theatre Club. Actors Marian Seldes and Kathryn Walker give a dramatic reading of Louise Bogan’s letters and poems. Adapted for the stage by Janet Sternburg and Corinne Jacker. Directed by Corinne Jacker. Produced by Janet Sternburg. Broadcast with permission from…

  • The Three Marias: New Portuguese Letters / by Maria Isabel Barreno, Maria Theresa Horta, and Maria Fatima Velho Da Costa ; directed by Rena Down. (Part 2 only)

    Reading of the book “The Three Marias: New Portuguese Letters.” The book is a collection of letters written by three Portuguese women authors about their lives, relationships, and about being women, which exposed the oppression of women in Portugal. Their work was seized by the government and banned, and the authors arrested. The part of…

  • Rhyme and reason

    English actress Rohan McCullough is interviewed by Barbara Kraft and discusses and then reads from her one-woman poetry entertainments. Includes readings from the works of W.B. Yeats, Louis MacNeice, E.E. Cummings, Dorothy Parker and Barbara Kraft. Produced by Barbara Kraft.

  • What woman and who, myself, I am / Rosalie Sorrels.

    Program of women’s songs and poetry by Sylvia Plath, Denise Levertov and Anne Sexton, read and selected by Rosalie Sorrels. She ends the program “These have been some words and some songs, by women, which reinforce the way I feel about being a woman. All except the opening remarks. Those were by a man, Henry…

  • The world split open / Louise Bernikow.

    “The world split open” is the title of a new anthology of women’s poetry. In this program, Joan Larkin talks with Louise Bernikow, editor of the anthology. Program includes some of the poetry included in the anthology, recorded May 13, 1972 at WBAI at a Women’s poetry reading, also entitled “The world split open”. The…

  • Womantruth / Megan Terry ; produced by Clare Spark.

    Originally titled “Woman Fibbers.” A funny and fast-moving collage of songs, poetry and prose readings built around an interview with feminist playwright Megan Terry, to expose the myth that women are deceitful and need a man to reveal them to themselves. The structure of the program echoes the principles of surrealism; stream of consciousness, chance,…

  • Sylvia Plath program / produced by Anita Barrows and Debbie Sweeney.

    This program presents a mix of readings of Sylvia Plath’s poetry, excerpts from her novel The Bell Jar, and writings about Plath by others, including Elinor Friedman Klein’s “A Friend Recalls Sylvia Plath” (Glamour Magazine, Nov. 1966) and A. Alvarez’s book “The Savage God: A Study of Suicide” (New York: Random House, 1972). No intro…

  • Women in the arts : in memoriam Marilyn Monroe / Judy Grahn, Anna Hartman, Naomi Lowinsky and Rachel Lowen.

    A poetry reading by Judy Grahn (1940 – ), author of “Edward the Dyke,” Anna Hartman, Naomi Lowinsky and Rachel Loden that is “…a coming together of women poets to reclaim our bodies from the winding sheet of history and celebrate the many forms of women loving women.” The reading was given as part of…

  • Daisy Aldan reads her poetry

    Poet Daisy Aldan describes her style of poetry and reads selections from her collection “Breakthrough.” She also reads from her translation of Albert Steffen’s drama “The Death Experience of Manes.”