A. J. Verdelle
A. J. Verdelle, born in 1960 in Washington, D.C., is the author of The Good Negress, which was a finalist in the Los Angeles Times Book Award for first fiction and the PEN/Faulkner Award. Ms. Verdelle, who received a Whiting Award in 1996, currently teaches at Princeton University. She read on December 3, 1998 and talked with Nikky Finney who has published two books of poetry, On Wings Made of Gauze and Rice, as well as a collection of stories, Heartwood. She teaches at the University of Kentucky.
Running Time: 83 minutes
©2001 Lannan Foundation. All rights reserved.
ISBN 1573940771
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Alice Walker
Alice Walker, who wrote her first book of poems as she traveled through Kenya and Uganda, won the Pulitzer Prize and an American Book Award for her novel The Color Purple. Ms. Walker read from Revolutionary Petunias and Other Poems, Horses Make A Landscape Look More Beautiful, and excerpts from The Color Purple and The Temple of My Familiar in Los Angeles on January 9, 1989. Alice Walker was interviewed at her home in northern California by journalist Evelyn White.
Running Time: 60 minutes
©1989 Lannan Foundation. All rights reserved.
ISBN 1573940151
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Paul West
Paul West, who received a Lannan Literary Award for Fiction, is the author of more than 15 novels. Mr. West read from his books Tenement of Clay, Out of My Depths, Rat Man of Paris, and Love’s Mansion. Mr. West’s reading and conversation took place on September 21, 1993, in Los Angeles.
Running Time: 60 minutes
©1994 Lannan Foundation. All rights reserved.
ISBN 1573940364
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Where Poems Come From
Fifteen major poets read and discuss the origins of their poetry. Yehuda Amichai, Lucille Clifton, Victor Hernández Cruz, Allen Ginsberg, Louise Glück, Joy Harjo, Galway Kinnell, Philip Levine, W. S. Merwin, Czeslaw Milosz, Octavio Paz, Ishmael Reed, Gary Snyder, Anne Waldman, and Alice Walker.
Running Time: 60 minutes
©1991 Lannan Foundation. All rights reserved.
ISBN 1573940496
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Richard Wilbur
Richard Wilbur, who served as Poet Laureate of the United States and has received two Pulitzer Prizes, is a poet, translator, teacher, critic, lyricist, and editor. Mr. Wilbur read from New and Collected Poems and unpublished manuscripts. The reading took place at the University of Southern California on April 16, 1990.
Running Time: 60 minutes
©1990 Lannan Foundation. All rights reserved.
ISBN 1573940178
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