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Furious Flower Poetry Center

Furious Flower Poetry Center Conference 1994

 
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  • African American Poetry and the Vernacular Matrix Part 1, 9/29/1994

    African American Poetry and the Vernacular Matrix Part 1, 9/29/1994

    00:05 video begins in the middle of Alvin Aubert introducing Roundtable panel discussion; 01:25 Aubert stands and presents; 11:40 Elizabeth Alexander speaks; 38:17 Aubert introduces Eleanor W. Traylor; 38:38 Traylor speaks; video ends during Traylor's talk

  • African American Poetry and the Vernacular Matrix Part 2, 9/29/1994

    African American Poetry and the Vernacular Matrix Part 2, 9/29/1994

    00:00 Video begins in the middle of Eleanor W. Traylor speaking; 04:40 Alvin Aubert introduces Sherley Anne Williams; 04:52 Williams begins speaking; Remainder of video is duplicate of FF0031 ending after the panel discusses Monifa A. Love's question

  • African American Poetry and the Vernacular Matrix Part 3, 9/29/1994

    African American Poetry and the Vernacular Matrix Part 3, 9/29/1994

    00:00 Sherley Anne Williams speaks; 18:20 Alvin Aubert speaks; 19:45 Joanne V. Gabbin instructs participants; 19:52 Darrell Stover addresses the panel; 21:13 Elizabeth Alexander responds to Stover; 21:57 Eleanor W. Traylor responds to Stover; 24:21 Aubert responds to unidentified audience member; 27:36 Shahara Brookins Drew addresses panel; 28:30 Williams responds to Drew; 29:40 Aubert briefly responds; 30:00 Adam David Miller addresses panel on the influence of the Gospel/Spirituals; 30:48 Williams responds to Miller; 33:28 Alexander responds to Williams; 35:10 Williams responds to Alexander; 36:32 Aubert responds to Williams; 38:00 Williams responds; 38:30 Traylor interjects; 42:15 unidentified audience member asks that the panel discusses the future of African American poetry; 50:47 Monifa A. Love addresses panel; 53:40 Mylea Thompson addresses panel

  • Banquet Part 1, 9/30/1994

    Banquet Part 1, 9/30/1994

    01:09 Darrell Stover introduces Morton Brooks, Brooks is performing on trombone while Stover reads; 11:42 Joanne V. Gabbin speaks; 12:55 Eugenia W. Collier speaks; 19:08 Gabbin speaks; 19:49 Mari Evans speaks; 20:26 Eugene Redmond speaks; 28:22 Raymond R. Patterson speaks; 29:14 Gabbin speaks; 30:11 Maryemma Graham speaks; 41:47 Gabbin speaks; 42:06 Deborah E. McDowell speaks; 47:13 Naomi Corneilia Long Madgett speaks; 48:10 Gabbin speaks; 52:13 Jerry Washington Ward speaks; video cuts out as Ward finishes speaking and introduces Samuel W. Allen

  • Banquet Part 2, 9/30/1994

    Banquet Part 2, 9/30/1994

    00:00 video begins in the middle of Jerry Washington Ward introducing Samuel W. Allen; 04:58 Allen speaks; 05:49 Joanne V. Gabbin speaks; 06:21 Opal Moore speaks; 18:20 Pinkie Gordon Lane speaks; 18:54 Gabbin speaks; 20:19 Sonia Sanchez speaks; 23:10 Gabbin speaks; 23:27 Val Gray Ward speaks; 27:35 Gwendolyn Brooks speaks; 29:54 Gabbin speaks; 44:46 Alexander L. Gabbin speaks; 46:28 Joanne V. Gabbin speaks; remainder of video includes some people speaking but footage is obscured by crowd

  • Black and White Photos/Campus Shots, 10/4/1994

    Black and White Photos/Campus Shots, 10/4/1994

    00:00-08:07 black and white photos of conference participants; 08:07 various shots of campus

  • Books 9/30/1994

    Books 9/30/1994

    Footage of posters, books, and various other artifacts at the conference

  • Clasroom Discussion Part 1, 10/4/1994

    Clasroom Discussion Part 1, 10/4/1994

    Joanne V. Gabbin and Val Gray Ward hold a class discussion about the conference

  • Classroom Discussion Part 2, 10/4/1994

    Classroom Discussion Part 2, 10/4/1994

    Joanne V. Gabbin and Val Gray Ward hold a class discussion about the conference

  • Critical Theories and Approaches in African American Poetry Part 1, 9/30/1994

    Critical Theories and Approaches in African American Poetry Part 1, 9/30/1994

    00:45 Jerry Washington Ward introduces panel; 10:40 Joyce Ann Joyce gets up to speak, unexplained Reggae music plays and everyone is silent; 15:08 Joyce signals to cut music and speaks; 32:24 Aldon Lynn Nielson speaks

  • Critical Theories and Approaches in African American Poetry Part 2, 9/30/1994

    Critical Theories and Approaches in African American Poetry Part 2, 9/30/1994

    00:10 video begins in the middle of Arnold Rampersad speaking; 24:34 Lorenzo Thomas speaks; 45:01 Jerry Washington Ward opens up discussion; 45:17 Darrell Stover addresses panel; 45:52 Thomas responds; 48:28 unidentified graduate student addresses panel; 49:18 Joyce Ann Joyce responds; 52:24 D.J. Renegade speaks; 53:29 Joyce responds; 56:15 Mari Evans addresses panel; 57:41 Kalamu ya Salaam addresses panel; 59:20 Thomas responds; 1:00:38 unidentified audience member begins speaking, video cuts out

  • Critical Theories and Approaches in African American Poetry Part 3, 9/30/1994

    Critical Theories and Approaches in African American Poetry Part 3, 9/30/1994

    00:00 video begins in the middle of Kalamu ya Salaam speaking (addressing panel); 01:30 Lorenzo Thomas responds; 02:45 unidentified speaker addresses panel; 03:25 Joyce Ann Joyce responds; 05:15 Deborah E. McDowell addresses panel; 08:22 Jerry Washington Ward closes out panel; 09:34 session ends, camera focuses on audience milling, music plays

  • Critical Theories and Approaches in African American Poetry Part 4, 9/30/1994

    Critical Theories and Approaches in African American Poetry Part 4, 9/30/1994

    00:00 Joyce Ann Joyce speaks; 01:40 Deborah E. McDowell addresses panel; 04:50 Jerry Washington Ward speaks; 06:00 panel finishes, crowd disperses

  • Finale Part 1, 10/1/1994

    Finale Part 1, 10/1/1994

    00:40 Byron Bullock speaks; 02:40 Mellasenah Morris plays piano; 08:18 Bullock speaks; 13:36 JMU Contemporary Gospel Singers perform

  • Finale Part 2, 10/1/1994

    Finale Part 2, 10/1/1994

    00:00 video opens during a performance by the JMU Contemporary Gospel Singers; 14:34 Byron Bullock introduces Val Gray Ward; 18:05 Ward takes stage, speaks and sings, video cuts off while she's speaking

  • Finale Part 3, 10/1/1994

    Finale Part 3, 10/1/1994

    Val Gray Ward speaks and sings

  • Finale Part 4, 10/1/1994

    Finale Part 4, 10/1/1994

    00:25 Val Gray Ward speaks and sings; 12:15 Byron Bullock speaks; 14:18 Bernice Johnson Reagon speaks and performs, Kathryn Harris acts as sign-language interpreter

  • Finale Part 5, 10/1/1994

    Finale Part 5, 10/1/1994

    Bernice Johnson Reagon speaks and performs, playing a drum, Kathryn Harris acts as sign-language interpreter

  • Finale Part 6, 10/1/1994

    Finale Part 6, 10/1/1994

    Bernice Johnson Reagon speaks and performs, playing a curious shaker instument and then drum, Kathryn Harris acts as sign-language interpreter

  • Free Read 10/1/1994

    Free Read 10/1/1994

    00:00 Various speakers are heard but not seen, test screen is displayed and then camera focuses on an empty table on stage; 2:58 camera finally focuses on unidentified speaker; 03:45 D.J. Renegade speaks; 07:30 Ta-Nehisi Coates speaks; 8:57 Dorothy Marie Rice speaks; 10:51 Michael Collins; 17:10 Toni Blackman speaks; 19:55 Jonathan Gray; 21:46 Kwame Alexander; 29:21 Nehassaiu deGannes speaks (approximated spelling of name, no confirmation); 34:23 Erica Jackson speaks; 37:50 Tyepha Walden speaks; 40:07 Nikea Green speaks; 41:13 Patricia Johnson speaks off-mic, off-stage, 43:00 Monifa A. Love speaks; 47:05 Tim Wells; 50:43 unidentified speaker closes out

  • Friday Keynote Speeches Part 1, 9/30/1994

    Friday Keynote Speeches Part 1, 9/30/1994

    00:10 Joanne V. Gabbin introduces Rita Dove; 05:00 Dove speaks and reads poems; 44:00 Gabbin introduces Dolores Kendrick; 46:44 Kendrick introduces Gwendolyn Brooks; 51:40 Brooks speaks and reads poems

  • Friday Keynote Speeches Part 2, 9/30/1994

    Friday Keynote Speeches Part 2, 9/30/1994

    00:00 Continuance of Gwendolyn Brooks speaking and reading (from part 1); 46:30 tribute to Brooks by Haki R. Madhubuti; 51:27 tribute from Joanne V. Gabbin

  • Friday Poetry Reading Part 1, 9/30/1994

    Friday Poetry Reading Part 1, 9/30/1994

    01:30 Dolores Kendrick speaks, reads poem "The Agony and the Bone"; 34:00 Gloria Wade Gayles introduces Nikki Giovanni; 38:55 Rita Dove speaks and reads poems

  • Friday Poetry Reading Part 2, 9/30/1994

    Friday Poetry Reading Part 2, 9/30/1994

    00:00 continues Nikki Giovanni's reading; 01:20 Gloria Wade Gayles introduces Eugene Redmond; 05:18 Redmond reads poems; 21:15 Joanne V. Gabbin closes out

  • Furious Flower 1994 Conference Supercut Part 1

    Furious Flower 1994 Conference Supercut Part 1

    00:45 Joanne V. Gabbin speaks; 01:45 Steven Wright plays drums; 04:47 Gabbin speaks; 05:47 Susan Facknitz speaks; 11:24 Jacqueline Brice-Finch speaks; 12:50 C. B. Claiborne speaks; 18:22 Ronald E. Carrier speaks; 22:20 Doris Hunt speaks; 23:30 Val Gray Ward chants and speaks while Wright plays drums; 30:03 Vernisha Brown speaks and sings; 33:48 Gabbin delivers opening address; 45:54 cut to black; 46:55 Alvin Aubert opens panel; 58:27 Elizabeth Alexander speaks; 1:25:25 Eleanor Traylor speaks; 1:50:55 cut to black; 1:50:56 Sherley Anne Williams speaks, video is watchable but distorted; 1:53:24 video regains normalcy; 2:09:15 Aubert opens panel to questions; 2:10:45 Darrell Stover addresses panel; 2:12: 05 Alexander responds; 2:12:48 Traylor responds; 2:14:45 unidentified speaker addresses panel; 2:15:15 Aubert responds; 2:18:30 Shahara Brookins Drew addresses panel; 2:19:22 Williams responds; 2:20:33 Aubert responds; 2:20:51 Adam David Miller addresses panel; 2:21:40 Williams responds; 2:24:20 Alexander responds; 2:26:04 Williams responds; 2:27:24 Aubert responds; 2:28:53 Williams responds; 2:29:08 Traylor responds; 2:33:09 unidentifed speaker addresses panel; 2:34:10 Aubert responds; 2:35:38 Alexander responds; 2:38:10 Traylor responds; 2:41:40 Monifa A. Love addresses panel; 2:42:41 Williams responds; 2:43:53 Alexander responds; 2:44:33 Mylea Thompson addresses panel; 2:45:00 Williams responds; 2:46:36 Alexander responds; 2:47:50 Aubert closes panel

 
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