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Kamau Brathwaite [Edward Brathwaite]
Photo credit: Beverly Brathwaite
The editor of PennSound's Brathwaite page is Jacob Edmond of the
University of Otago (New Zealand). Read his Listener's Guide to the page.
PoemTalk #149, Discussing Kamau Brathwaite's "Negus," feat. Amber Rose Johnson, Jacob Edmond, Huda Fakhreddine
Listen to the complete recording and read program notes at Jacket2.
Complete Reading (43:23): MP3
- Introduction (3:18): MP3
- Negus (4:35): MP3
- The Skin, part one of The Making of the Drum (1:06): MP3
- The Two Curved Sticks of the Drummer, part three of The Making of the Drum (0:45): MP3
- Gourds and Rattles, part four of The Making of the Drum (0:48): MP3
- The Gong-Gong, part five of The Making of the Drum (0:33) MP3
- Atumpan (2:06): MP3
- Naming (1:31): MP3
- Shepherd (6:36): MP3
- The Twist (0:41): MP3
- Wings of a Dove (3:51): MP3
- Caliban (10:06): MP3
- Xângo at the Summer Solstice (3:23): MP3
- The Twist (1:04): MP3
1. show number 16, Feburary 2, 2004 (59:58): MP3 RealAudio
Brathwaite talks about his new work, Caribbean poetry, and the ancient art of making it new.
2. show number 94, 2005 (59:43): MP3
Brathwaite, on the phone from Kingston, Jamaica, returns to Cross-Cultural Poetics to read from his new book Born to Slow Horses and to discuss the situation of Cowpastor, a piece of land in Barbados on which a slave burial ground is in danger of being desecrated.
Reading at New York University, December 9, 2000
Recorded by Chris Funkhouser
- Introduction (3:48): MP3
- Son(g) to Ra for the coming of the Day of the New Moon (3:46): MP3
- Bliss Poem (10:07): MP3
- Three Things the Artists Say (19:40): MP3
- The SilverSands Poem (4:01): MP3
- The Day the First Snow Fell (3:22): MP3
- Calypso (10:11): MP3
- Beast (4:00): MP3
- Complete Reading (59:12): MP3
"Angel/Engine"
(4:48): MP3
This poem was recorded October 19, 1997, part of a lecture/reading at the
XCP:
Cross-Cultural Poetics Conference, University of Minnesota.
Published in Ancestors (A Reinvention of Mother Poem, Sun Poem, and X/Self)
(New Directions, 2001). The poem appears here courtesy of Ken Sherwood. Click
here for Sherwood's
commentary.
Reading with Cecil Taylor and Quincy Troupe, Fox Theatre, Boulder, CO, July 13, 1994
- Complete Recording, (1:35:04)MP3
- Recording courtesy of Michael Davidson
Reading at Poets House, November 18, 1993
- Introduction (3:53): MP3
- Mackey Introduction (10:33): MP3
- On new pathways (26:23): MP3
- On Shakespeare (1:47): MP3
- On poverty (1:35): MP3
- On poetry and music (3:42): MP3
- Complete recording (51:39): MP3
Reading at UC Santa Cruz, April 5, 1990
- Complete Recording, (1:33:20)MP3
- Recording courtesy of Michael Davidson
Reading at UC Santa Cruz, 1990
- Complete Recording, (1:31:23)MP3
- Recording courtesy of Michael Davidson
International Poetry Forum, Pittsburgh, February 7, 1988
- Complete Reading (58:12): MP3
International Poetry Forum, Pittsburgh, February 10, 1987
- Complete Reading (45:43): MP3
Reading at the Coolidge Auditorium, Library of Congress, October 5, 1982
Full Recording: External Link
Reading at Robin's, November 9, 1982
- On work in relation to Caribbean (22:05): MP3
- The Day the First Snow Fell (2:17): MP3
- Judas of Barcelona (7:26): MP3
- On Ghana (9:52): MP3
- The New Ships (9:43): MP3
- South (7:53): MP3
- On rhythm (20:37): MP3
- A Game of Cricket (9:29): MP3
- The Making of the Drum (4:43): MP3
- Complete Reading (1:33:39): MP3
Reading of "Islands," 1973
- Complete Reading, part one (43:05): MP3
- Complete Reading, part two (22:44): MP3
- Complete Reading, part three (21:36): MP3
Reading at the Recording Library, Library of Congress, September 11, 1970
Full Recording: External Link
Reading of "Masks," Unknown Date
- Complete Reading (58:06): MP3
Reading from The Arrivant, Date Unknown
- Part 1, (1:42:52)MP3
- Part 2, (46:15)MP3
- Recording courtesy of Michael Davidson
These sound recordings are being made available for noncommercial and educational use only.
All rights to this recorded material belong to the author © 2008 Kamau Edward
Brathwaite Used with permission of Kamau Edward Brathwaite.
Distributed by PennSound.
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