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