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Furious Flower Poetry Center Conference 1994

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Furious Flower 1994 Conference Supercut Part 10

00:00 Byron Bullock speaks; 01:55 Mellasenah Morris plays piano; 07:32 Bullock speaks; 12:52 JMU Contemporary Gospel Singers perform; 31:32 Bullock speaks; 35:20 Val Gray Ward speaks; 1:19:00 Bernice Johnson Reagon speaks and performs, playing a curious shaker instument and then drum, Kathryn Harris acts as sign-language interpreter; 2:03:36 Joanne V. Gabbin speaks
Furious Flower 1994 Conference Supercut Part 2

01:09 Elizabeth Alexander reads "LA by Night" (video is glitchy); 02:47 Gerald W. Barrax reads "And Tell the Girls to Pray for Me" and two other poems; 04:10 video regains normalcy; 19:20 Toi Derricotte speaks and reads; 36:55 E. Ethelbert Miller reads "Rebecca" and other poems; 50:25 John Keene opens panel to discussion; 50:53 Darrell Stover addresses panel; 54:44 unidentified speaker addresses panel; 56:50 Joanne V. Gabbin closes out session; 57:30 cut; 58:05 unidentified speaker introduces panel; 58:27 Samuel W. Allen speaks and reads; 1:20:00 Pinkie Gordon Lane speaks and reads; 1:37:43 Haki R. Madhubuti speaks and reads; 1:54:43 Naomi Corneilia Long Madgett speaks and reads, video cuts out while Madgett is reading
Furious Flower 1994 Conference Supercut Part 3

00:00 Continues Naomi Corneilia Long Madgett's reading; 08:58 Joanne V. Gabbin closes out session, tape cuts; 09:15 Gabbin speaks; JMU Jazz Emsemble performs "Cherry Juice"; 17:13 Gabbin speaks; 18:33 Amiri Baraka speaks and reads; 39:58 Askia M. Touré speaks and reads; 47:50 Mari Evans speaks and reads; 1:10:53 Touré introduces Michael S. Harper; 1:12:00 Harper speaks and reads; 1:44:47 Sonia Sanchez speaks and reads, video cuts out while Sanchez is reading
Furious Flower 1994 Conference Supercut Part 4

00:00 Jerry Washington Ward introduces panel on critical theory; 09:55 Reggae music plays; 14:22 Joyce Ann Joyce speaks; 31:30 Aldon Lynn Nielson speaks; 56:00 Arnold Rampersad speaks; 1:20:35 Lorenzo Thomas speaks; 1:40:55 Ward opens panel for discussion; 1:41:12 Darrell Stover addresses panel; 1:44:25 Shahara Brookins Drew addresses panel; 1:48:20 D.J. Renegade addresses panel; 1:52:10 Mari Evans addresses panel; 1:53:35 Kalamu ya Salaam addresses panel; 1:56:32 unidentified speaker addresses panel; 1:59:00 Deborah E. McDowell addresses panel; 2:02:10 Ward closes out panel; 2:03:52 Joanne V. Gabbin speaks in follow up to Keynote Speeches; 2:08:45 Rita Dove speaks and reads; 2:50:25 Dolores Kendrick reads and introduces Gwendolyn Brooks; 2:55:15 Brooks speaks and reads, video cuts out while Brooks is reading
Furious Flower 1994 Conference Supercut Part 5

00:00 Continues Gwendolyn Brooks's reading; 32:52 Haki R. Madhubuti speaks; 37:48 Joanne V. Gabbin speaks; 42:04 Dolores Kendrick speaks and reads; 1:14:23 Gloria Wade Gayles speaks; 1:19:15 Nikki Giovanni speaks and reads; 1:46:49 Gayles speaks; 1:50:20 Eugene Redmond speaks; 2:06:20 Gabbin closes out session
Furious Flower 1994 Conference Supercut Part 6

00:00 Darrell Stover speaks, while Morton Brooks performs; 09:55 Joanne V. Gabbin speaks; 11:10 Eugenia Collier speaks; 16:55 Gabbin speaks; 18:00 Mari Evans speaks; 18:40 Eugene Redmond speaks; 26:35 Raymond R. Patterson speaks; 27:28 Gabbin speaks; 28:45 Maryemma Graham speaks; 40:00 Gabbin speaks; 40:20 Deborah E. McDowell speaks; 45:27 Naomi Corneilia Long Madgett speaks; 46:20 Gabbin speaks; 50:28 Jerry Washington Ward speaks; 59:17 Samuel W. Allen speaks; 1:00:08 Gabbin speaks; 1:00:35 Opal Moore speaks; 1:12:40 Pinkie Gordon Lane speaks; 1:13:13 Gabbin speaks; 1:14:38 Sonia Sanchez speaks and reads; 1:17:45 Val Gray Ward speaks; 1:21:55 Gwendolyn Brooks speaks; 1:24:12 Gabbin speaks, video cuts out while Gabbin is speaking
Furious Flower 1994 Conference Supercut Part 7

00:00 Joanne V. Gabbin opens session, bad audio; 01:45 Lamont B. Steptoe speaks; 02:28 Gabbin speaks; 03:08 Carmen Gillespie speaks; 04:10 Eugene Redmond opens panel; 10:03 Gabbin speaks; 13:53 Alvin Aubert speaks and reads; 21:15 Redmond speaks; 21:57 video freezes and rewinds several seconds; 39:55 Joanne M. Braxton speaks; 57:55 Redmond speaks; 1:02:00 Raymond R. Patterson speaks; 1:29:45 Redmond speaks; 1:34:20 Jabari Asim speaks; 1:52:52 Redmond speaks; 1:56:37 video freezes while Redmond is introducing Clyde Taylor and cuts to Taylor speaking; 2:12:20 Redmond speaks and then opens panel for discussion; 2:21:47 Jerry Washington Ward addresses panel; 2:24:25 Kalamu ya Salaam addresses panel; 2:30:47 Darrell Stover addresses panel; 2:34:52 Adam David Miller addresses panel, video cuts out while he is speaking
Furious Flower 1994 Conference Supercut Part 8

00:00 Eugene Redmond speaks; 02:45 Jacqueline Brice-Finch speaks; 09:44 Gwen Butler speaks; 14:15 Kalamu ya Salaam speaks; 31:43 Jeannette M. Drake speaks; 47:10 Sybil Kein speaks and sings; 1:04:50 Adam David Miller speaks; 1:19:04 Brenda Marie Osbey speaks; 1:33:35 Fabu Carter speaks; 1:42:00 Esther Iverem speaks; 1:48:25 Mona Lisa Salloy speaks; 1:55:55 Quo Vadis Gex-Breaux speaks; 2:02:50 video cuts out while Redmond is speaking
Furious Flower 1994 Conference Supercut Part 9

00:00 Daryl Cumber Dance speaks; 03:25 Natasha D. Trethewey speaks; 04:46 Major Jackson speaks; 10:55 Vera L. Beatty speaks; 14:00 Trethewey speaks; 15:35 Jackson speaks; 17:00 while Jackson is speaking, the video cuts to Byron Bullock speaking at a later event, video glitches and ends
Opening Session 9/29/1994

01:25 Joanne V. Gabbin introduces conference; 02:25 Steven Wright plays African drums; 05:26 Gabbin introduces Susan Facknitz; 06:27 Facknitz speaks; 11:40 Gabbin introduces Jacqueline Brice-Finch; 12:02 Brice-Finch speaks; 13:13 Gabbin introduces C. B. Claiborne; 13:28 Claiborne speaks; 15:24 Gabbin introduces Ronald E. Carrier; 19:00 Carrier speaks; 21:58 Gabbin introduces Doris Hunt, Val Gray Ward, and Vernisha Brown; 22:58 Hunt speaks; 24:00 Ward chants and speaks while Wright plays drums; 29:18 Gabbin speaks; 30:41 Brown speaks and sings; 34:40 Gabbin speaks
Saturday Poetry Reading Part 1, 10/1/1994

00:15 Sybil Kein plays guitar and sings "Jumbalaya"; 00:48 dead air; 04:54 Eugene Redmond speaks (bad video quality); 05:50 Redmond reads "Funky Grace" by Joseph Harrison; 07:45 Jacqueline Brice-Finch speaks; 08:35 Brice-Finch reads "Ascension"; 10:08 Brice-Finch reads "Food for Thought"; 13:20 reads "Take Note"; 14:40 Gwen Butler reads; 19:15 Kalamu ya Salaam reads; 36:42 Jeannette M. Drake reads; 52:08 Kein sings and plays guitar, then reads
Saturday Poetry Reading Part 2, 10/1/1994

00:00 video begins in the middle of Sybil Kein speaking; 08:53 Eugene Redmond speaks; 10:37 Adam David Miller speaks; 23:58 Redmond introduces Brenda Marie Osbey; 24:51 Osbey speaks; 37:45 Redmond introduces Fabu Carter; 39:22 Carter speaks; 46:46 Redmond introduces Esther Iverem; 47:45 Esther Iverem speaks and sings; 53:35 Redmond introduces Mona Lisa Salloy; 54:10 Salloy speaks; video cuts out while Salloy is speaking
The Dark Room Collective: A Fisted Reading Part 1, 10/1/1994

00:00 Eugene Redmond introduces Quo Vadis Gex-Breaux; 00:54 Gex-Breaux reads her poems; 08:25 Redmond introduces Daryl Cumber Dance; 12:05 Dance introduces "The Dark Room Collective" (TDC); 15:30 Natasha D. Tretheway of TDC reads; 16:50 Major Jackson reads; 23:00 Vera L. Beatty reads; 26:08 Trethewey reads again; 27:38 Jackson reads; 30:20 Beatty reads; 32:55 Trethewey reads; 34:45 John Keene reads; 40:00 Sharan Strange reads; 44:08 Kevin Young reads; 47:55 Thomas Sayers Ellis reads; 50:20 Strange reads; 52:10 Young reads; 55:03 Ellis reads; 58:45 Strange reads; 1:01:13 Young reads
The Dark Room Collective: A Fisted Reading Part 2, 10/1/1994

00:00 Repeats Sharan Strange's reading from the end of 6B followed by Kevin Young's reading in full; 04:24 Thomas Sayers Ellis reads; 06:57 Strange reads
Thursday Poetry Reading Part 1, 9/29/1994

00:00 Loud signal test; 00:40 Thomas Sayers Ellis begins speaking, introduces Michael S. Harper (bad audio); 05:45 Harper speaks; 29:00 Joanne V. Gabbin announces break before panel; 34:09 John Keene opens panel; 39:27 Elizabeth Alexander speaks; 54:15 Gerald W. Barrax speaks; video cuts out while Barrax is speaking
Thursday Poetry Reading Part 2, 9/29/1994

00:00 video begins in the middle of Gerald W. Barrax speaking; 10:18 Toi Derricotte speaks; 27:54 E. Ethelbert Miller speaks; 41:23 John Keene opens floor to discussion; 41:50 Darrell Stover addresses panel; 42:18 Derricotte responds; 44:04 Miller responds; 45:42 unidentifed audince member addresses panel; 45:54 Derricotte responds; 47:48 Joanne V. Gabbin closes out panel
Thursday Poetry Reading Part 3, 9/29/1994

01:00 Carl Phillips introduces panel and Samuel W. Allen (bad audio); 07:43 Allen speaks; 29:08 Pinkie Gordon Lane speaks; 46:50 Haki R. Madhubuti speaks; 53:05 video cuts out while Madhubuti is speaking
Thursday Poetry Reading Part 4, 9/29/1994

[picks up where FF0038 leaves off] 00:00 video begins in the middle of Haki R. Madhubuti speaking; 10:51 Naomi Corneilia Long Madgett speaks; 29:55 Joanne V. Gabbin speaks
Thursday Poetry Reading Part 5, 9/29/1994

00:20 Introduction by Joanne V. Gabbin; 02:20 JMU Jazz Ensemble plays "Cherry Juice"; 09:55 Amiri Baraka reads; 31:05 Askia M. Touré reads and introduces Mari Evans; 39:00 Evans reads; 1:02:00 Touré speaks and introduces Michael S. Harper (tape cuts out at 1:02:40)
Thursday Poetry Reading Part 6, 9/29/1994

00:30 Michael S. Haper speaks; 32:05 Askia M. Touré speaks, introduces Sonia Sanchez; 33:24 Sanchez speaks; video cuts out while Sanchez is speaking
Writing a Literary History of African American Poetry Part 1, 10/1/1994

00:35 Joanne V. Gabbin opens session; 02:38 Lamont B. Steptoe speaks; 3:18 Gabbin makes announcements; 04:00 Carmen Gillespie speaks; 05:00 Eugene Redmond introduces panel; 10:55 Gabbin speaks; 14:45 Alvin Aubert speaks; 22:05 Redmond speaks; 40:04 Joanne M. Braxton speaks; 58:20 Redmond speaks, video cuts out while Redmond is speaking
Writing a Literary History of African American Poetry Part 2, 10/1/1994

00:00 Eugene Redmond introduces Raymond R. Patterson; 02:25 Patterson speaks; 30:10 Redmond introduces Jabari Asim; 34:45 Asim speaks; 53:15 Redmond introduces Clyde Taylor, video cuts out as Taylor gets up to speak
Writing a Literary History of African American Poetry Part 3, 10/1/1994

00:00 video begins in the middle of Clyde Taylor speaking; 15:55 Eugene Redmond speaks; 25:20 Jerry Washington Ward addresses the panel; 27:58 Kalamu ya Salaam addresses panel; 32:44 Taylor responds; 34:22 Darrell Stover addresses panel; 35:22 Jabari Asim responds; 38:45 Adam David Miller addresses panel; 39:44 Joanne V. Gabbin closes out panel