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DVD-R, from MP4 ; 1:02:24 AM |
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Title on disc: Detroit City Poets, Bill Harris. |
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Recorded at Design 99, Hamtramck, Michigan 04/06/2009. |
| Summary |
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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Retired Wayne State University professor, poet, playwright, and novelist, currently affiliated with the Inside/Out Literary Arts Program, and previously involved with the Detroit Artists Workshop. A 2011 Kresge Foundation Eminent Artist Award winner. He discusses the development of the Black Writers' movement and his involvement in African-American theatre and playwriting in Detroit and New York. |
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Harris, Bill, 1941- -- Interviews.
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African American arts -- Michigan -- Detroit.
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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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Bill Harris. |
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Detroit City Poets, Bill Harris.
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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 Project.
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