Furious Flower Poetry Center Events

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  Furious Flower Poetry Center Overview Part 1

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  Furious Flower Poetry Center Overview Part 2

  Continues where part 1 left off, further discussion of the Furious Flower Poetry Center with several individuals brought up to speak about recent events

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  Lucille Clifton's Blessings and Mercies

  00:00 Joanne V. Gabbin introduces Keith Leonard; 01:26 Leonard begins lecture on Clifton; 15:20 audio goes out; 36:59 audio comes back in, Q&A/Discussion for remainder of video

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  Making the Ordinary Revolutionary

  00:50 Joanne V. Gabbin intro; 02:45 Nikky Finney opens with lecture on Clifton; 09:30 Finney reads a work prepared for the occasion, titled "When the Ordinary Is Revolutionary: The Body of Lucille Clifton"; 37:00 Q&A/Discussion; 50:40 Closing remarks from Gabbin

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  Remaking the Memoir

  01:00 Joanne V. Gabbin Intro; 02:44 Cheryl Wall begins; 04:10 Wall starts lecture "Remaking the Memoir: Lucille Clifton in Words and Pictures" using projector to show related photographs; 48:30 lecture concludes, followed by Q&A/Discussion

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  Soul Talk Part 1

  00:00 Joanne V. Gabbin introduces Akasha Gloria Hull; 03:12 Hull reads her poem "These Bones, These Bones"; 13:00 Hull has audience read Lucille Clifton's "Cutting Greens"--followed by discussion; 22:15 Clifton's "The Killing of the Trees" is read followed by discussion; further discussion of Clifton and the Supernatural, as well as other elements of her work

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  Soul Talk Part 2

  02:15 Audience reads Lucille Clifton's "When I Stand Around Among Poets" and discusses; 09:00 Hull reads Clifton's "The Light That Came to Lucille Clifton" followed by discussion"; Hull reads "The Far Memory Sequence" poems by Clifton followed by discussion

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  The Weight of Heaven

  00:00 Joanne V. Gabbin introduces Edward Scott; 04:05 Scott begins his lecture entitled "The Weight of Heaven"; 48:26 Lecture concludes, transition to Q&A/Discussion for remainder

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  Truth Is On Its Way Part 1

  00:00 Loud signal test!; 00:18 Music begins; 06:54 Nikki Giovanni begins spoken word with musical accompaniment, this continues intermittently throughout video

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  Truth Is On Its Way Part 2

  00:00 Loud signal test; continuance of part 1, includes music and spoken word poetry from Nikki Giovanni

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  Sanchez & Clifton Discussion

  Sonia Sanchez and Lucille Clifton engage in a dialogue on stage, then open the floor to the audience

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  "Amen Corner" by James Baldwin, First Performance

  00:00 Joanne V. Gabbin speaks and introduces play; 02:50 performance begins; 2:02:24 video cuts out during performance

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  "Amen Corner" by James Baldwin, Second Performance

  03:21 Joanne V. Gabbin speaks and introduces play; 05:40 performance begins

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  Elders I

  00:42 Introduction begins, Joanne V. Gabbin narrates; 02:00 Jerry Washington Ward interviews Samuel W. Allen; 09:50 Allen reads "The Apple Trees in Sussex"; 16:05 Allen reads "Harriet Tubman"; 25:37 Allen reads "Law & Order: The Immigrant"; 29:24 Val Gray Ward interviews Mari Evans; 33:21 Evans reads an excerpt from "Speak the Truth to the People"; 40:38 Evans reads "Celebration"; 44:30 Evans reads "The Elders"; 48:55 Evans reads "Alabama Landscape"; 52:48 Evans reads "Here Hold My Hand"; 53:09 Evans reads "Where Have You Gone"; 56:38 Credits roll

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  Elders II

  00:36 Introduction begins, Joanne V. Gabbin narrates; 01:50 Eleanor W. Traylor interviews Naomi Corneilia Long Madgett; 07:57 Madgett reads "Reluctant Light"; 14:42 Madgett reads "Stand by Me"; 21:22 Lenard D. Moore interviews Alvin Aubert; 27:32 Aubert reads "Sixty-two"; 31:03 Aubert reads "Bessie"; 32:48 Sandra Govan interviews Pinkie Gordon Lane; 33:47 Lane reads "For Gwendolyn Brooks: Queen of the Image..."; 37:10 Lane reads "I Have Forgotten"; 40:54 Lane reads "I Am Looking at Music"; 43:40 Lane reads "Mississippi River Poems"; 52:00 Lane reads "Elegy for Etheridge"; 56:38 Credits roll

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  For My People: The Life and Writing of Margaret Walker

  Footage of Margaret Walker speaking, interspliced with narration from various individuals

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  Furious Flower 1: Elders

  00:12 Introduction begins, Joanne V. Gabbin narrates; 01:35 Jerry Washington Ward interviews Samuel W. Allen; 09:30 Allen reads "The Apple Trees in Sussex"; 15:35 Allen reads "Harriet Tubman"; 25:08 Allen reads "Law & Order: The Immigrant"; 28:55 Val Gray Ward interviews Mari Evans; 32:53 Evans reads excerpts from "Speak the Truth to the People"; 40:10 Evans reads "Celebration"; 44:02 Evans reads "The Elders"; 48:26 Evans reads "Alabama Landscape"; 52:20 Evans reads "Here Hold My Hand"; 52:40 Evans reads "Where Have You Gone"; 53:20 Evans reads "And We Write the Love Songs"; 56:20 Eleanor W. Traylor interviews Naomi Corneilia Long Madgett; 1:02:18 Madgett reads "Reluctant Light; 1:09:12 Madgett reads "Stand By Me"; 1:12:22 Madgett reads "Phillis"; 1:15:53 Lenard Moore interviews Alvin Aubert; 1:18:15 "Nat Turner in the Clearing"; 1:22:00 Aubert reads "Sixty-two"; 1:25:40 Aubert reads "Bessie"; 1:27:20 Sandra Govan interviews Pinkie Gordon Lane; 1:28:25 Lane reads "For Gwendolyn Brooks: Queen of the Image..."; 1:31:50 Lane reads "I Have Forgotten"; 1:35:25 Lane reads "I Am Looking at Music"; 1:38:10 Lane reads "Mississippi River Poems"; 1:46:30 Lane reads "Elegy for Etheridge"; 1:51:08 Credits roll

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  Furious Flower 1: Initiates

  00:10 Introduction begins, Joanne V. Gabbin narrates; 01:25 Elizabeth Alexander reads "What I'm Telling You"; 02:45 Alexander reads "Butter"; 04:00 "At the Beach (Dedicated to Melvin Dixon)"; 05:10 The Dark Room Collective segment begins; 05:15 Natasha D. Trethewey reads "On Hearing of Byron Dela Beckwith's Conviction for the Murder of Medgar Evers, Feb. 1994"; 06:45 "His Hands Will Never Be Large Enough"; 08:10 Major Jackson reads "Some Kind of Crazy"; 10:30 Vera L. Beatty reads "Marketing"; 12:35 Beatty reads "Nat's Lungs"; 13:38 Kevin Young reads "Cousins"; 16:46 Young reads "The Slaughter"; 19:28 Sharan Strange reads "The Body"; 21:15 Strange reads "Barbershop Ritual"; 22:50 Thomas Sayers Ellis reads "Sticks"; 25:40 John Keen reads "Why I Love My Father"; 26:24 Credits roll

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  Furious Flower 1: Seers

  00:12 Introduction begins, Joanne V. Gabbin narrates; 01:25 Rita Dove speaks and reads "Augusta the Winged Man and Rasha the Black Dove"; 06:45 Dove reads "Parsley"; 10:40 Dove reads "The Island Women of Paris"; 12:55 "After Reading 'Mickey In The Night Kitchen' for the Third Time Before Bed"; 14:04 Opal Moore interviews Toi Derricotte; 17:15 Derricotte reads "Before Making Love"; 23:12 Derricotte reads "Clitoris"; 24:30 Derricotte reads "Coming"; 28:55 Judith Thomas interviews Dolores Kendrick; 30:55 Kendrick reads "Peggy in Killing"; 40:52 Kendrick reads "Hattie on the Block"; 44:03 Deborah E. McDowell interviews Sherley Anne Williams; 45:12 Williams reads "The Black Back-Up"; Joyce Owens Pettis interviews Gerald W. Barrax; 1:01:40 Barrax reads "Jeopardy"; 1:06:17 Barrax reads "Sunday 24 May 1992 10:30a.m."; 1:12:20 Eugenia W. Collier interviews E. Ethelbert Miller; 1:13:52 Miller reads "In Small Town USA"; 1:17:12 Miller reads "Rebecca"; 1:20:10 "The Bronx is Where Dreams are Made"; 1:24:34 Miller reads "Omar"; 1:27:57 Aldon Lynn Nielson interviews Michael S. Harper; 1:31:10 Harper reads "Nightmare Begins Responsibility"; 1:34:42 Harper reads "Grandfather"; 1:40:10 Harper reads "Studs"; 1:45:00 "The Drowning of the Facts of a Life"; 1:47:55 Harper reads "My Father's Face"; 1:50:15 "Last Affair: Bessie's Blues Song"; 1:51:26 Credits roll [Video is damaged/glitchy 41:37-48:45 and 56:40 to end, audio is fine]

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  Furious Flower 1: Warriors

  [Video is glitchy for the first 30 minutes, audio is fine though] 00:10 Introduction begins, Joanne V. Gabbin narrates; 01:30 Askia M. Touré interviews Amiri Baraka; 07:58 Baraka reads "Heathens"; 12:20 Baraka reads "I Am"; 20:55 Baraka reads "So the King Sold the Farmer #39"; 23:35 Sonia Sanchez interviews Haki R. Madhubuti; 25:08 Madhubuti reads "Whatever Happened to Luther"; 30:40 Madhubuti reads "The Great Wait"; 36:53 Madhubuti reads excerpt from "Killing Memory"; 43:33 Everett Hoagland interviews Kalamu ya Salaam; 47:50 Salaam reads excerpts from "The Call of the Wild"; 52:00 Salaam reads excerpts from "Blue Zephyr"; 55:15 Hoagland reads an excerpt from "love Child-a black aesthetic"; 56:35 Lorenzo Thomas interviews Sonia Sanchez; 57:48 Sonia Sanchez reads "I Have Walked A Long Time"; 1:01:37 Sanchez reads an excerpt from "We Are Here"; 1:12:28 Sanchez reads "Catch the Fire"; 1:14:33 Jabari Asim interviews Eugene Redmond; 1:18:07 Redmond reads "I Can Never Unlove You"; 1:26:10 Redmond reads an excerpt from "Barbequed Cong or We Laid My Lai Low"; 1:27:57 Virginia Fowler interviews Nikki Giovanni; 1:29:35 Giovanni speaks at conference; 1:36:28 Giovanni reads "I Was Old"; 1:50:25 Giovanni reads "Knoxville Tennessee"; 1:51:23 Credits roll

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  Furious Flower Gwendolyn Brooks Tribute

  02:04 Dolores Kendrick reads "The Agony and the Bone"; 03:48 Gwendolyn Brooks reads "The Coora Flower"; 08:30 Sonia Sanchez reads "For Sister Gwen"; 10:15 Brooks reads "Our White Mother Says We Are Black But Not Very"; 12:14 Brooks reads "Puzzlement"; 12:52 Brooks reads "I Am A Black"; 14:58 Haki R. Madhubuti reads "Gwendolyn Brooks: Distinctive and Proud at 77"; 17:40 Brooks reads

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  Seers I

  00:32 Introduction begins, Joanne V. Gabbin narrates; 01:45 Rita Dove speaks and reads "Augusta the Winged Man and Rasha the Black Dove"; 07:10 Dove reads "Parsley"; 12:00 Dove reads "The Island Women of Paris"; 13:15 "After Reading 'Mickey In The Night Kitchen' for the Third Time Before Bed"; 14:24 Opal Moore interviews Toi Derricotte; 17:30 Derricotte reads "Before Making Love"; 23:15 Derricotte reads "Clitoris"; 24:52 Derricotte reads "Coming"; 29:15 Judith Thomas interviews Dolores Kendrick; 31:10 Kendrick reads "Peggy In Killing"; 41:12 Kendrick reads "Hattie on the Block"; 44:22 Deborah E. McDowell interviews Sherley Anne Williams; 45:32 Williams reads "The Black Back-Up"; 56:44 Credits roll

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  Seers II

  00:38 Introduction begins, Joanne V. Gabbin narrates; 01:53 Joyce Owens Pettis interviews Gerald W. Barrax; 06:52 Barrax reads "Jeopardy"; 11:29 Barrax reads "Sunday 24 May 1992 10:30a.m."; 17:30 Eugenia W. Collier interviews E. Ethelbert Miller; 19:03 Miller reads "In Small Town USA"; 22:24 Miller reads "Rebecca"; 25:21 Miller reads "The Bronx is Where Dreams are Made"; 29:45 Miller reads "Omar"; 33:10 Aldon Lynn Nielson interviews Michael S. Harper; 36:20 Harper reads "Nightmare Begins Responsibility"; 39:55 Harper reads "Grandfather"; 45:20 Harper reads "Studs"; 50:05 Harper reads "The Drowning of the Fact of a Life"; 53:05 Harper reads "My Father's Face"; 55:25 Harper reads "Last Affair: Bessie's Blues Song"; 56:38 Credits roll

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  Warriors I

  00:40 Introduction begins, Joanne V. Gabbin narrates; 2:05 Askia M. Touré interviews Amiri Baraka; 08:27 Baraka reads "Heathens"; 12:48 Baraka reads "I Am"; 21:22 Baraka reads "So the King Sold the Farmer #39"; 24:03 Sonia Sanchez interviews Haki R. Madhubuti; 25:36 Madhubuti reads "Whatever Happened to Luther"; 31:10 Madhubuti reads "The Great Wait"; 37:22 Madhubuti reads excerpts from "Killing Memory"; 44:02 Everett Hoagland interviews Kalamu ya Salaam; 48:18 Salaam reads excerpts from "The Call of the Wild"; 52:30 Salaam reads excerpt from "Blue Zephyr"; 56:34 Credits roll

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  Warriors II

  00:43 Introduction begins, Joanne V. Gabbin narrates; 01:54 Lorenzo Thomas interviews Sonia Sanchez; 03:06 Sanchez reads "I Have Walked A Long Time"; 06:55 Sanchez reads excerpts from "We Are Here"; 17:45 Sanchez reads "Catch the Fire"; 19:51 Jabari Asim interviews Eugene Redmond; 23:25 Redmond reads "I Can Never Unlove You"; 33:15 Virginia Fowler interviews Nikki Giovanni; 34:44 Giovanni speaks at conference; 41:47 Giovanni speaks and reads "I Was Old"; 56:42 Credits roll