Reading at the first Pan African Writers Forum, Ghana, 17 July 2008
of this reading, A.L. says: I'd been invited there to deliver a lecture and hadn't brought any of my poetry with me. When the organizers asked me to do a poetry reading, I hurriedly gathered a few poems from web sites, and one in progress from my notebook -- The reading took place late one night under the stars and just a few yards from the ocean.
- Accidental Baby Blues (1:21): MP3
- Second Person (1:21): MP3
- Manufacture's Warning (0:21): MP3
- Something Crashing (0:18): MP3
- Mary Kaye's Book (0:42): MP3
- from GHANA (1:56): MP3
- Self-Help Test (1:41): MP3
- from Sixties Flashbacs (1:34): MP3
- Commuter's Dream (0:19): MP3
- Mixophobia (0:56): MP3
How We Place African American Poetry, University of Wisconsin, April 2003
A.L. Nielsen writes of this reading: In April of 2003, Lorenzo Thomas and I appeared at
a symposium at the University of Wisconsin
organized by Lynn Keller, titled WHAT'S NEW IN AMERICAN POETRY. Lorenzo and I had by then been
on many panels together, acting as a sort of roving tag team of poetry criticism. This time out,
Lorenzo delivered a talk he called "How We Place African American Poetry" and I delivered a
prepared response to his talk.
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