The Dark Room Collective: A Fisted Reading

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Dance, Daryl Cumber (1938-01-17), Redmond, Eugene (Eugene B.) (1937-12-01), Trethewey, Natasha D., 1966-, Jackson, Major, 1968-, Beatty, Vera L., Keene, John (John R.), 1965-, Strange, Sharan (1959), Young, Kevin (Kevin Lowell), 1970-, Ellis, Thomas Sayers (1963), and Gex, Quo Vadis

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Poetry Readings by The Dark Room Collective at the 1994 Furious Flower Conference. Established in Boston in 1988, The Dark Room Collective was first a reading series and later a small community of black poets and writers. The Dark Room Collective's poetry reading at the 1994 conference was held at Grafton-Stovall Theatre, James Madison University on Saturday, October 1, 1994 at 4:15 p.m.

Tape 1 begins with the last 10 minutes of Poetry Reading 5 and The Dark Room Collective reading starts at the 12 minute mark.

This footage was originally recorded on 2 MII videocassettes.

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Additional information on the Dark Room Collective can be found here.

Subjects:

American poetry -- African American authors
Poetry -- History and criticism
African American women poets
African Americans -- Poetry
Poetry -- Black authors

Names:

Dance, Daryl Cumber (1938-01-17)
Redmond, Eugene (Eugene B.) (1937-12-01)
Trethewey, Natasha D., 1966-
Jackson, Major, 1968-
Beatty, Vera L.
Keene, John (John R.), 1965-
Strange, Sharan (1959)
Young, Kevin (Kevin Lowell), 1970-
Ellis, Thomas Sayers (1963)
Gex, Quo Vadis

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