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Carolyn Forche.
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Poet, teacher, translator, and activist Carolyn Forché - whose poetry has been praised by Joyce Carol Oates and who received a Guggenheim Fellowship and traveled to El Salvador with Amnesty International, where she witnessed the civil war - discusses how she became a professional poet and shares selections of her politically engaged poetry.
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1990
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CarolynForche
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Video file
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Connie May Fowler.
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Connie May Fowler, author of Before Women had Wings, shares how her life as a young child growing up in Florida was the basis for this novel. She also discusses how the character of Zora in the novel was a tribute to author Zora Neal Hurston.
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1996
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ConnieMayFowler2
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Video file
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Elaine Marcus Starkman.
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Elaine Marcus Starkman - poet, playwright, and author of Learning to Sit in the Silence: A Journal of Caretaking - shares selections of her book and discusses spending ten years of her life as caretaker of her mother-in-law. Through her writings, Elaine reflects on this time period in her life and how she coped with the essential truths of the aging process.
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1994
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ElaineMarcusStarkman
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Video file
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Elizabeth Seydel Morgan.
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Poet Elizabeth Seydel Morgan discusses how she became a poet and the influences on her work, and reads many of her original poems aloud such as Heron and All my Friends Pets are Growing Old.
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1989
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ElizabethSeydelMorgan
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Video file
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Irene Blair Honeycutt.
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Poet Irene Blar Honeycutt, a native of Jacksonville, Florida, shares selections of her poetry and discusses her inspirations.
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Date Issued
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1993
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IreneBlairHoneycutt
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Video file
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Joy Harjo.
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Poet Joy Harjo discusses her work, which focuses on landscapes, the Native American experience, and racism. Harjo also reads and discusses her inspirations for her poems "New Orleans," "Strange Fruit," and "She Had Some Horses." Harjo stresses the importance of acknowledging and discussing evil in the world. NOTE: Video lacks standard series intro and introduction by host and starts several minutes into interview.
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Date Issued
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1992
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Worth_Quoting_Joy_Harjo_MarySueKoeppel_May92, fscj:13495
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Video file
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Martha Vertreace.
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Associate Professor of English and the Poet in Residence at Kennedy-King College in Chicago Martha M. Vertreace reads aloud selections of her work from some of her poetry books, which include Second House from the Corner, Under a Cat's Eye Moon and Oracle Bones. Martha writes poetry that is layered in symbolism and reflective on her environment.
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Date Issued
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1995
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Worth_Quoting_Martha_Vertreace, fscj:13498
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Video file
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Sandra Haldeman Martz.
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Sandra Haldeman Martz, the author of When I am an Old Woman I Shall Wear Purple, discusses her writings on the topic of women and aging and reads a few selections from her book. NOTE: Video quality is poor for the first 15 seconds, but improves thereafter.
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Date Issued
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1993
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SandraHaldemanMartz
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Video file
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The Folktellers: Connie Regan-Blake and Barbara Freeman.
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Connie Regan-Blake and Barbara Freeman, who left their careers as librarians to travel nationally and internationally as storytellers and found the National Association for the Preservation and the Perpetuation of Storytelling (now the National Storytelling Network) - discuss their craft and tell some of their stories.
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Date Issued
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1993
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Folktellers
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