1985 Dudley Randall reading now available

Thanks to the segmentation work of Domenic Casciato, we at PennSound are now making available Dudley Randall’s reading for the University of Illinois at Chicago Writers Committee, on May, 23, 1985. The reading was aired on WFMT with a performance by The Staple Singers. HERE is a link to the Dudley Randall PennSound author page.

  1. Introduction (2:00): MP3
  2. Dudley Randall talks about small press (1:23): MP3
  3. Robert Haydn’s Those winter sundays MP3
  4. Etheridge Knight’s Hard Rock returns to prison from hospital for the criminally insane (3:15): MP3
  5. Doughtry Long’s One time Henry dreamed the number (1:05): MP3
  6. Nikki Giovanni’s Nikki-Rosa (1:59): MP3
  7. Booker T. and W.E.B (2:13): MP3
  8. The Ballad of Birmingham (2:07): MP3
  9. George (2:30): MP3
  10. Poor Dumb Butch (1:23): MP3
  11. For Pharish Pinckney: bindlestiff during the depression (1:37): MP3
  12. Old Witherington (2:17): MP3
  13. To an old man (2:16): MP3
  14. Langston blues (1:18): MP3
  15. For Margaret Danner (0:57): MP3
  16. For Gwendolyn Brooks: teacher (0:34): MP3
  17. Perspectives (0:54): MP3
  18. Furs (1:22): MP3
  19. Loss (0:17): MP3
  20. Miniskirt (0:52): MP3
  21. Place my heart in your hand (0:57): MP3
  22. I loved you once (0:51): MP3
  23. Spring before a war (0:49): MP3
  24. Helmted boys (0:29): MP3
  25. Dear sun (0:57): MP3
  26. Pacific epitpahs (2:55): MP3
  27. In Africa (0:42): MP3
  28. African suite (0:47): MP3
  29. Hotel continental (0:25): MP3
  30. Hotel Ivoire (0:35): MP3
  31. Village girl (0:23): MP3
  32. Woman of Ghana (0:32): MP3
  33. Frederick Douglas and the slave breaker (1:13): MP3
  34. Leader of the people (1:27): MP3
  35. Bag woman (2:03): MP3
  36. Augury for an infant (1:06): MP3
  37. Happiness (1:15): MP3
  38. Poet (1:18): MP3
  39. After the killing (1:28): MP3
  40. Primitives (1:46): MP3
  41. Courage (0:21): MP3
  42. Beast (1:06): MP3
  43. Me (0:56): MP3

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