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Three women poets / Gabrielle Edgcomb, Barbara Lefcowitz, and Lee Howard

This episode of The poet and the poem focuses on three women poets: Gabrielle Edgcomb (1926-1996), Barbara Lefcowitz (b. 1935), and Lee Howard (1952-2003) interviewed by Grace Cavalieri. Program features readings and discussion of political poetry and women poets.

Changes / written and read by Denise Oliver.

This program features a reading of the short story "Changes" by author Denise Oliver, former program director for WPFW in Washington, DC. The story is about a young black woman who lived in a black neighborhood in Queens as a teenager and would hang out and later work in the Puerto Rican neighborhood of East Harlem (El Barrio) New York.

Surreal and hip poetry / Ron Rodriguez ; interviewed by Grace Cavalieri.

Poet discusses intutition vs. logic in his writings. Includes readings.

Experimental theater in Washington, D.C. / Tony Abeson and Bob Bailey ; interviewed by Ruth Stenstrom and Geri Calkins.

Directors of the Washington D.C. Theater Laboratory discuss the problems facing experimental theater.

Black Box / Alan Austin ; interviewed by Grace Cavalieri.

Editor discusses his unique magazine which records poetry on cassettes. Includes discussion and poems by Terrence Wench, Liz Evans, and Connie Carter.

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.

Three women poets / Gabrielle Edgcomb, Barbara Lefcowitz, and Lee Howard

Changes / written and read by Denise Oliver.

Surreal and hip poetry / Ron Rodriguez ; interviewed by Grace Cavalieri.

Experimental theater in Washington, D.C. / Tony Abeson and Bob Bailey ; interviewed by Ruth Stenstrom and Geri Calkins.

Black Box / Alan Austin ; interviewed by Grace Cavalieri.

Among all this, you stand like a fine brownstone : Gwendolyn Brooks / produced by Taliba Holliday.

Black theater movement / Val Grey Warren and Mike Hodge ; interviewed by Karen Spellman.

African heritage center for dance and drum / Melvyn Deal ; interviewed by Naomi Eftes and Elaine Heffernan.

Vengence and Lessons / criticisms by Frances Lang, Octave Stephenson, and Melissa Clark.

Short stories critiqued / by Deirdre Baldwin and Robert Sargent.

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