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Celebrity poetry reading

Description: Bill Murray, Christopher Reeve, Stockard Channing and other celebrities assemble at Sanders Theater for a poetry reading. Interview with Reeve on performing in Boston. William Alfred (Harvard professor) on Anglo-Saxon poetry.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 05/17/1989

Derek Walcott

Description: Derek Walcott, Saint Lucian poet, reads from his work. Walcott reads the poems "Sea Change" and "The Beachhead." Walcott begins to read the poem "Sea Cranes."
1:00:11: Visual: Derek Walcott (West Indian poet) reads from his work, a poem called "Sea Change." The poem is about the political unrest in the West Indies. 1:02:21: V: Walcott reads from his work, a poem called "The Beachhead." The poem is about an abandoned navy base in the West Indies. 1:04:34: V: Walcott begins to read from another poem called "Sea Cranes." Tape ends at the beginning of the reading.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 05/20/1982

Donald Hall

Description: Poet Donald Hall in his rural homestead in Danbury, New Hampshire. Talks about his writing and his family. Reads his poetry. Barn interior.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 03/08/1991

Galway Kinnell

Description: Poet Galway Kinnell reads his recent writing on the Persian Gulf war from MacDowell Colony cottage.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 01/25/1991

Lydon compilation

Description: Poetry reading and interview with South African poet Dennis Brutus. Tip O'Neill on Reagan administration cuts in social programs. (1982)
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 1982

Mourning “The Meadow”

Description: Back of the Hill CDC holds mock memorial procession to mourn destruction of The Meadow in Mission Hill, highest elevation in Boston, to be turned into a parking lot. Sen. Royal Bolling, Sr., speaks. Poetry reading, dirge, eulogy mark somber occasion. New England Baptist Hospital expansion blamed for violating state environmental policy. Pan of threatened green space adjacent to hospital. ‘No trespassing’ sign behind chain link fence.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 07/13/1984

Poets in Norfolk prison

Description: Inmates at Norfolk County House of Correction read their poetry. Prof. Elizabeth Barker of BU has run poetry readings within the prison for twenty years.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 04/05/1991

Seamus Heaney

Description: Poet Seamus Heaney reads excerpts from “Sweeney Astray," in Grolier Book Shop. No audio at the very end.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 05/28/1984

Seamus Heaney

Description: Poet Seamus Heaney readings his poems at Grolier Book Shop, with introductions to each poem, and banter before and in between readings. The poems read are, "Digging" "Follower" "What ever you say, say nothing" "Oysters" and "The Guttural Muse".
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 05/18/1982

Seamus Heaney

Description: SEAMUS HEANY READS HIS POEM 'A PEACOCK'S FEATHER'
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 07/07/1986