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Interview with Adolfo Matos
Date: 1/7/2003Call Number: V 140Format: SVHSProducers: nyla rosen, hana tauber, jose ignacio fuste, marcos garofaloCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
Unedited interview used to get clips for a project on the Puerto Rican former political prisoners. In Spanish.
Artist, independence figher, and former political prisoner Adolfo Matos talks about the connections between Puerto Rican Independence and the release of the political prisoners, his history and current projects, his use of art as liberatory, formal and informal/social prisons, his poetry book, and reads a poem (min 47), etc.
NOTE: For easier viewing, check out V 143 which has extracted, edited interviews of him and other PR Independentistas.
Interview with Victor Hernandez Cruz, Miguel Gomez Pinero, Miguel Algarin
Call Number: LA 066Format: Cass A & BProducers: Nina SerranoProgram: tape recorded interviewCollection: Puerto Rico
Nina Serrano interviews . Miguel Pinero talks about his play, Short Eyes -- a “street-poetry play” created and about prison life, shown at Riverside and Lincoln Center in New York. The poetry is a “total experience” for the actors (former prisoners) .
Interview with Victor Hernandez Cruz, Miguel Gomez Pinero, Miguel Algarin
Call Number: LA 067BFormat: Cass BProducers: Nina SerranoProgram: tape recorded interviewCollection: Puerto Rico
Nina Serrano interviews . Miguel Pinero talks about his play, Short Eyes -- a “street-poetry play” created and about prison life, shown at Riverside and Lincoln Center in New York. The poetry is a “total experience” for the actors (former prisoners) . (Same as LA 066)
Piri Thomas
The last part of a program with Piri Thomas. Piri Thomas performs some of his poetry and that of others from the Puerto Rican community.
Reverend Father Ernesto Cardenal Martínez- Sandinista poet
Date: 11/30/1990Call Number: JG/ 078Format: CassetteProducers: Judy GerberProgram: A Defiant HeartCollection: Programs produced by Judy Gerber and Laurie Simms
Reverend Father Ernesto Cardenal Martínez, Sandinista priest, reads his poetry in San Francisco in promotion of his new book.
Focus on the Americas with Blase Bonpane, Ph.D. Interview with Reverend Father Ernesto Cardenal Martínez
Call Number: JG/ 081AFormat: Cass AProducers: Judy GerberCollection: Programs produced by Judy Gerber and Laurie Simms
1990 Interview with Father Ernesto Cardenal of Nicaragua. Father Cardenal established a Solentiname island community that was destroyed by the Somoza Dictatorship in 1977. He became a supporter/ambassador for the Sandinista Front. After the victory of the FSLN he became the Minister of Culture. Father Cardenal reads two poems in Spanish with English translation. One is about Marilyn Monroe and one on the effect the revolution has had on the ecology. The interview discusses the factors that lead to the FSLN loss in recent election including intense US pressure and embargoes, the loss of constitutional rights under the new government in Nicaragua, and the House of Three Worlds cultural center
Aqui se Habla Espanol: Pedro Pietri en Casa Puerto Rico
Call Number: CD 185Format: CDProducers: Discos CoquiCollection: Compact discs and videos representing digitized copies of analog tapes
From an original out-of-print vinyl record (LP 1203) Discos Coqui.
Aqui se Habla Espanol y otros poemas de protesta...y chistes. Pedro Pietri en Casa Puerto Rico.
The great Puerto Rican poet passed in 2004. He reads some of his amazing early work in front of a live crowd.
Aqui se Habla Espanol
Puerto Rican Obituary
Himno de Papa Dios
Sex and the Virgin Mary
Suicide Note of a Cockroach
The Rise and Fall of the Avon Lady
The Broken English Dream
The Blue Uniform
Aqui se Habla Espanol: Pedro Pietri en Casa Puerto Rico
Call Number: CD 186Format: CDProducers: Discos CoquiCollection: Compact discs and videos representing digitized copies of analog tapes
From an original out-of-print vinyl record (LP 1203) Discos Coqui. (re-mastered)
Aqui se Habla Espanol y otros poemas de protesta...y chistes. Pedro Pietri en Casa Puerto Rico.
The great Puerto Rican poet passed in 2004. He reads some of his amazing early work in front of a live crowd.
Aqui se Habla Espanol
Puerto Rican Obituary
Himno de Papa Dios
Sex and the Virgin Mary
Suicide Note of a Cockroach
The Rise and Fall of the Avon Lady
The Broken English Dream
The Blue Uniform
Loose Joints by Pedro Pietri: Pedro Pietri in his own Words
Date: 1/1/1979Call Number: CD 193Format: CDProducers: Folkways FL 9722Collection: Compact discs and videos representing digitized copies of analog tapes
Loose joints.
Folkways Records FL 9722. [1979]
CONTENTS: Side One:Warning; How Do Your Eggs Want You; To Get Drunk You Have to Drink; Telephone Booth Number 102; Telephone Booth Number 905 1/2; Telephone Booth Number 580; Telephone Booth Number 722; Telephone Booth Number 190; Puerto Rican Obituary.
Side Two: Suicide Note from a Cockroach in a Low Income Housing Project; Telephone Booth Number 23; Telephone Booth Number 535; Telephone Booth Number 801; The Last Game of the World Series; 1 a.m. At All Times (for Nancy).
Chile Event at Glide
Date: 10/1/1973Call Number: CD 204Format: CDProducers: Stan JohnstonProgram: Comunicacion AztlanCollection: Compact discs and videos representing digitized copies of analog tapes
Poetry reading in protest of the Chilean coup at Glide memorial Church bringing together poets in protest. First public assembly condemning the events of September 11, 1973.
Alejandro Murguia and Janice Mirikitani ONLY
