Program

Voices of lesbian pride

A celebration of the 10th annual Lesbian Pride Week, featuring poets & artists who will be appearing during this year's events. Alix Dobkin's song "Women Loving" opens the program. Jewelle Gomez reads her poem "Flamingos and Bears".

National Women's Political Caucus

National Women's Political Caucus--Boston Convention. Convention was covered from Lesbian Perspective. [Lesbian Perspectives I?] Same recording as BC2337 being preserved as part of the American Women project.

Lesbian nation / Jill Johnston

KPFK's Barbara Cady and Los Angeles Free Press reporter Helen Koblin interview Jill Johnston, Village Voice columnist and author of Lesbian Nation. Johnston explains her views of lesbianism as the only true radical feminist position.

Benefit for women library workers / Malvina Reynolds and Margie Adam

Malvina Reynolds and Margie Adam perform at a benefit for Women Library Workers. Recorded at Glide Church in San Francisco on May 13th, 1977. Produced by Martha Oelman. Songs performed are: 1. Artichokes -- 2. If You Love Me -- 3. There's A Bottom Below -- 4. The Albatross -- 5. The Little Red Hen -- 6. Turn Around -- 7. Carolina Cotton Mill Song -- 8. World In Their Pocket -- 9.

Festival of Underground Poetry: Diane di Prima

Beat poet Diane di Prima reads excerpts from her book "The Calculus of Variation" at the Festival of Underground Poetry at the UC Berkeley Art Museum on October 10, 1971. The festival was co-sponsored by the UC Berkeley Art Museum and the Berkeley Poets' Commune. Recording starts in the middle of a sentence and seems to be excerpted from a longer reading.

Diane di Prima reads

Radio Free People presents poet Diane di Prima reads chapter of an upcoming prose book Blessed are the Meek, Baby, a monologue "Zip Code", and four part poem "Canticle of St. Joan". Produced by Radio Free People at a poetry reading in March 1969 at St. Mark's Church in the Bowery in New York City. Includes intro and outro.

Alberta Hunter: a very special woman (Part 3 only)

Live performance by blues singer Alberta Hunter (1895 - 1984) recorded at The Cookery in NYC on October 26, 1977. Program is on three reels; reels 1 and 2 are not currently held by PRA. Reel 3 features Hunter performing "By and By," "Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out," "My Castle's Rockin'," and "Handy Man." Also includes an interview with Alberta Hunter and friend Chris Albertson.

Ntozake Shange: Sassafrass, Cypress & Indigo

Author Ntozake Shange reads from her novel, Sassafrass, Cypress & Indigo (St. Martin's Press, 1982) at Cody's bookstore in Berkeley, CA in September 1982. Shange describes the book before reading excerpts from it and is then interviewed by KPFA's Ginny Z. Berson. Reading at Cody's recorded by Pam Scola.

Margie Adam live at KPFK

Margie Adam performs live at KPFK studio A during her tour for National Coalition of Women's Voters. She talks between songs about the women's movement. Songs include "Sweet Friends of Mine". Margie tells the story of recording her first demo at KPFK in June of 1972. Interviewed by Anita Frankel. Contains dated material. This recording was formerly cataloged as AZ1328.

Dramatic reading of Carson McCullers' "Correspondence"

Dramatic reading of Carson McCullers' short story "Correspondence". The story consists of four letters written by high school freshman Henrietta "Henky" Evans to her Brazilian pen pal between 1941-1942.

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