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Barry Boys and Yevgeny Yevtushenko read Yevtushenko’s poems. This second reel starts in the middle of Yevtushenko’s recitation of “Simbirsk Fair,” then “Impressions of Western Cinema,” “Coliseum,” “The City of Yes and the City of No.” At the end, Yevtushenko gives an animated speech, which is translated. Closing poem is “Hail in Kharkov.”

The writer speaks before an audience at San Francisco State College. Pulitzer Prize winning author William Saroyan strongly resists the urge to give advice to this group of English teachers. Instead he recalls his past feelings of “isolation and despair” because, ironically, he had a hard time learning to read and write. Mr. Saroyan says learning is a subtle process, “It happens by presence, glance…and that unidentifiable condition which says to the other person ‘O.K.’ instead of ‘not a chance’.” His talk makes a profound, personal statement on education.

Yippie Head Abbie Hoffman Comes To Kpfa – Hoffman, Michael Rossman, Patrick Mayers, Greg Pyes, and Allen Ginsberg discuss Hoffman’s book “Steal This Book,” the counter culture test movement, art, and poetry. – BROADCAST: KPFA, 19 Aug. 1971.

Yippie Head Abbie Hoffman Comes To Kpfa – Hoffman, Michael Rossman, Patrick Mayers, Greg Pyes, and Allen Ginsberg discuss Hoffman’s book “Steal This Book,” the counter culture test movement, art, and poetry. – BROADCAST: KPFA, 19 Aug. 1971.

Musician and artist Yoko Ono discusses the feminist movement and its relationship to the mass media with KPFK’s Barbara Cady. Ono and Cady discuss how women’s art and writing is ignored by the media, dissect some of the criticisms of the women’s movement, and discuss some of Ono’s recent art. Contains some sensitive language. Identical to BC1357.

A non-traditional (secular) approach to Jewish holiday with music, a story by Sholem Aleykhem, and didactic material.

Alice Walker (1944 – ) is primarily known as a novelist and short story writer, and is a major figure in both Black American and Feminist literature. In the first part of this program Walker reads a story from her new book “You Can’t Keep A Good Woman Down” at the Woman’s Building in San Francisco — “Fame,” a humorous story about a cantakerous older Black woman writer who is about to receive her 111th major award. Karla Tonella, who conducted the interview with Walker woven throughout the program, reads two of Walker’s short stories: “A Letter of the Times” and “Coming Apart.” The second part of the program continues Tonella’s interview with Walker, and also features a recording Walker reading her story “The abortion,” a powerful story that left its audience in stunned silence, at A Woman’s Place bookstore in Oakland. In the interview segments, Walker talks about some of her characters, her own relocation from Atlanta to San Francisco, why she incorporates history and politics into her work, her favorite writers, her own creative struggle, and what she’s working on now. Mixed with music. Contains some sensitive language.