Panel: Literature as a Lamp

Location

Memorial Union Ballroom

Event Website

http://www.undwritersconference.org

Start Date

22-3-1978 12:00 PM

End Date

22-3-1978 1:00 PM

Description

In this audiovisual recording from Wednesday, March 22, 1978, as part of the 9th Annual UND Writers Conference: “The Mirror and the Lamp,” Amiri Baraka, John Ashbery, and William S. Burroughs participate in a panel called “Literature as a Lamp,” joined by Burroughs's assistant, James Grauerholz. The panelists discuss their ideas of literature as force for social illumination, the effect of writers and literature on a political level, and the effect of revolution on art.

Moderated by Bob Strauss.

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Panel: Literature as a Lamp

Memorial Union Ballroom

In this audiovisual recording from Wednesday, March 22, 1978, as part of the 9th Annual UND Writers Conference: “The Mirror and the Lamp,” Amiri Baraka, John Ashbery, and William S. Burroughs participate in a panel called “Literature as a Lamp,” joined by Burroughs's assistant, James Grauerholz. The panelists discuss their ideas of literature as force for social illumination, the effect of writers and literature on a political level, and the effect of revolution on art.

Moderated by Bob Strauss.

https://commons.und.edu/writers-conference/1978/day3/3