Panel: Poetic Voices Lyric and Dramatic, Part 2
Location
Memorial Union Ballroom
Event Website
http://www.undwritersconference.org
Start Date
20-3-1981 12:00 PM
End Date
20-3-1981 1:00 PM
Description
In this audiovisual recording from Friday, March 20, 1981, as part of the 12th Annual UND Writers Conference: “Voices,” Ntozake Shange and Richard Wilbur participate in a panel called “Poetic Voices: Lyric and Dramatic: Part II.” The panelists discuss the act of writing poetry and drama. The panelists also respond to audience questions about working with actors, inspiration, the shift in voice between a written work and a stage performance, stage directing, the effect of Ntozake Shange's pregnancy on her work, masculinity and social movement, struggling with writer's block, writing habits, the definition of “poet,” their reactions to Grand Forks, “art for art's sake,” and recurring language.
Note: A portion of this panel was not recorded.
Panel: Poetic Voices Lyric and Dramatic, Part 2
Memorial Union Ballroom
In this audiovisual recording from Friday, March 20, 1981, as part of the 12th Annual UND Writers Conference: “Voices,” Ntozake Shange and Richard Wilbur participate in a panel called “Poetic Voices: Lyric and Dramatic: Part II.” The panelists discuss the act of writing poetry and drama. The panelists also respond to audience questions about working with actors, inspiration, the shift in voice between a written work and a stage performance, stage directing, the effect of Ntozake Shange's pregnancy on her work, masculinity and social movement, struggling with writer's block, writing habits, the definition of “poet,” their reactions to Grand Forks, “art for art's sake,” and recurring language.
Note: A portion of this panel was not recorded.
https://commons.und.edu/writers-conference/1981/day4/2
Comments
Permissions pending, digitization planned.