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Ishmael Reed reads two poems and discusses Chattanooga, hoodoo, and his novel "Mumbo Jumbo." This is an edited version of a 46-minute interview that took place May 1, 1974 in Brockport, NY. The full video is in our archive, with many others: dspace.sunyconnect.suny.edu/browse/dateissued?scope=c19c62f5-763f-4dc8-ae6d-1d29323a2b6c

Founded in 1967, the Brockport Writers Forum has recorded hundreds of interviews with writers such as Grace Paley, John Berryman, Ishmael Reed, Margaret Atwood, Ha Jin, and John Ashbery. The Forum is a program of the College at Brockport, SUNY. For more visit our archive at dspace.sunyconnect.suny.edu/browse/dateissued?scope=c19c62f5-763f-4dc8-ae6d-1d29323a2b6c

June Jordan reads "A Poem about Intelligence for my Brothers and Sisters" and talks about selling poems to her friends, state violence against black life, and the power of the public library system. This is an edited version of a 42-minute interview that took place on September 25, 1981. To see the full video plus many more visit our archive at dspace.sunyconnect.suny.edu/browse/dateissued?scop...

Robert Hayden reads "Those Winter Sundays" and discusses W.B. Yeats, accusations of "literary Uncle Tomism," the Bahá’í faith, and Frederick Douglass. This is an edited version of an hour-long interview conducted in Brockport, NY on March 3, 1975. The full video, with many others, is available in our archive: dspace.sunyconnect.suny.edu/browse/dateissued?scope=c19c62f5-763f-4dc8-ae6d-1d29323a2b6c

John Berryman reads "The Song of the Tortured Girl" and discusses apprenticeship, where "Henry" came from, loss of friends, and love and sex. Click the CC button to turn captions on Berryman's speech can be hard to follow here. William Heyen describes his visit to Brockport in "A Memoir of John Berryman," anthologized in FIRST PERSON SINGULAR, ed. Joyce Carol Oates. The interview took place on ...

On the day after Nixon's re-election, Gary Snyder talks about poetry, politics, ecology, and eating deer. This is an edited version of a 45-minute interview recorded on November 8, 1972. For more visit our archive at dspace.sunyconnect.suny.edu/browse/dateissued?scope=c19c62f5-763f-4dc8-ae6d-1d29323a2b6c

Margaret Atwood on being disapproved of for writing novels, the search for an indigenous mode of expression, and the allegedly mesmerizing effect of her cover photos. This is an edited version of a 45-minute interview recorded on September 13, 1979 and published as "Evading the Pigeonholers" in the collection "Margaret Atwood: Conversations," edited by Earl G. Ingersoll. For more visit our arch...