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DVD-R, from MP4 ; 1:02:17 min. |
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Title written on DVD-R: Detroit City Poets, Melba Joyce Boyd. |
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Recorded at Design 99, Hamtramck, Michigan 04/06/2009. |
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An oral history project entitled "The Detroit City Poetry Project" created to document the Detroit poetry scene and independent presses that proliferated primarily during the 1960s-1970s. The interviews were conducted by Monika Berenyi, a Canadian researcher and documentarian. The oral histories and supplementary materials were donated to Wayne State University Libraries. |
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Professor, poet, and author of thirteen books. She worked as Dudley Randall's assistant at Broadside Press. She discusses growing up in Detroit, her evolution as a poet, her years at Broadside Press with Dudley Randall, and interactions between artists and writers of different races in the sixties, seventies, and eighties in the Detroit area. |
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Boyd, Melba Joyce -- Interviews.
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Broadside Press
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African American poets.
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Oral history -- Michigan -- Detroit.
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Berenyi, Monika.
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Wayne State University.
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Melba Joyce Boyd |
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Part of Detroit City Poets Oral History Project.
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Related to the Cass Corridor Documentation Project.
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Detroit City Poets, Melba Joyce Boyd.
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Detroit City Poets Project.
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