University of Iowa rhetoric professor Vershawn Young performs a reading of August Wilson’s work at the Iowa Public Library. If you want to use this video on VOCAT, simply copy & paste the following link into your “Manage Media” Tab, minus the quotation marks: “https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UPPRdYUeOaM” Continue reading Vershawn Ashanti Young Reads August Wilson
American writer Andrew Solomon, author of The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression (a 2001 National Book Award winner and Pulitzer Prize finalist) and Far From the Tree: Parents, Children, and the Search for Identity (a 2012 National Book Critics Circle Award). Here he delivers a TED Talk which relates to the content of The Noonday Demon. If you want to use this video on VOCAT, simply copy & … Continue reading Andrew Solomon, “Depression, the Secret We Share”
Buckley interviews Mailer for his show Firing Line with William F. Buckley Jr. Buckley and Mailer debate/discuss Mailer’s role in cultural life, politics, and other topics. If you want to use this video on VOCAT, simply copy & paste the following link into your “Manage Media” Tab, minus the quotation marks. For this video, you’ll need to follow the links (via YouTube) to the following videos in … Continue reading Mailer, Norman, and William F. Buckley Jr. Interview. (1968)
Baldwin and Buckley debate at the Cambridge Union in 1965. If you want to use this video on VOCAT, simply copy & paste the following link into your “Manage Media” Tab, minus the quotation marks: “https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WPz7kTnEWKE” Continue reading Baldwin, James and William F. Buckley Jr. Debate: “Has the American Dream been achieved at the price of the American Negro?”
Amiri Baraka reads “Black Art.” This performance was released on the album “Sonny’s Time Now,” featuring jazz performers Sonny Murray, Albert Ayler, Don Cherry, Henry Grimes, and Louis Worrell. If you want to use this video on VOCAT, simply copy & paste the following link into your “Manage Media” Tab, minus the quotation marks: “https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dh2P-tlEH_w” Continue reading Baraka, Amiri, “Black Art” (1967)
Adrienne Rich reading “What Kinds of Times Are These” at the Geraldine R. Dodge Poetry Festival. If you want to use this video on VOCAT, simply copy & paste the following link into your “Manage Media” Tab, minus the quotation marks:“https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TRQapdNY-F4″ Continue reading Rich, Adrienne, “What Kinds of Times Are These”
Adrienne Rich reads her 1983 poem “North American Time” in Madison WI in 1997. If you want to use this video on VOCAT, simply copy & paste the following link into your “Manage Media” Tab, minus the quotation marks: “https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bi_N3UPAD5E” Continue reading Rich, Adrienne, “North American Time”
Audio recording of Edna St. Vincent Millay reading “Love is Not All” If you want to use this video on VOCAT, simply copy & paste the following link into your “Manage Media” Tab, minus the quotation marks: “https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mvgDAOG8W6c” Continue reading Millay, Edna St. Vincent, “Love is Not All”
Audio recording of Edna St. Vincent Millay reading “Recuerdo” If you want to use this video on VOCAT, simply copy & paste the following link into your “Manage Media” Tab, minus the quotation marks: “https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mYQkEkB_fhk” Continue reading Millay, Edna St. Vincent, “Recuerdo”
