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Presente reads poetry with music Presente reads poetry with music
Call Number: WP 015Format: CDCollection: Materials Recorded and Gathered for "Wild Poppies"
Presente sings a poem. (Spanish and English)
Sonia Sanchez reads Marilyn Buck’s poem, “Prayer”. Sonia Sanchez reads Marilyn Buck’s poem, “Prayer”.
Call Number: WP 016Format: CDCollection: Materials Recorded and Gathered for "Wild Poppies"
Sonia Sanchez, poet and activist, reads a poem by Marilyn Buck called “Prayer”.
Poems by Marilyn Buck and other poets read by Mitsuye Yamada, Jean Stewart, Piri Thomas, Maria Poblet, Uchechi Kalu Poems by Marilyn Buck and other poets read by Mitsuye Yamada, Jean Stewart, Piri Thomas, Maria Poblet, Uchechi Kalu
Call Number: WP 017Format: CDCollection: Materials Recorded and Gathered for "Wild Poppies"
Poet and activist, Mitsuye Yamada reads excerpts from Marilyn Buck’s poem, “Incommunicado”. Exerpts: “The Order” and “Night”, and reads her own poem “Neutralize”. Poet, Jean Stewart, reads Marilyn Buck’s, “Bird Watchers”, and her poem “Pigeons”. Piri Thomas, poet from East Harlem, reads a poem by Carlos Quiles called “Vieques” in English. Piri Thomas expands on the value of poetry. Maria Poblet reads “Thirteen Springs” by Marilyn Buck and her own poem, “Movement”. Poet and activist, Uchechi Kalu, reads “Blind Folded Men” by Marilyn Buck.
Aya de Leon “Live at La Pena”  -  “Grito de Vieques” Aya de Leon “Live at La Pena” - “Grito de Vieques”
Call Number: WP 018Format: CDProducers: DeLeon DirectionsCollection: Materials Recorded and Gathered for "Wild Poppies"
Aya de Leon, writer, activist, spoken word artist performs her work “Grito de Vieques”
Kiilu Nyasha reads “In Memory of Kawasi Balagoon.”  Sara Menefee reads “Moon Bereft” Kiilu Nyasha reads “In Memory of Kawasi Balagoon.” Sara Menefee reads “Moon Bereft”
Date: 4/24/2004Call Number: WP 020Format: CDCollection: Materials Recorded and Gathered for "Wild Poppies"
Former Black Panter Kiilu Nyasha reads “In Memory of Kawasi Balagoon.” Homeless advocate and poet, Sara Menefee reads “Moon Bereft” by Marilyn Buck. Kiilu Nyasha speaks of visiting and writing Marilyn Buck.
Marilyn Buck reads her own poetry Marilyn Buck reads her own poetry
Call Number: WP 021Format: CDCollection: Materials Recorded and Gathered for "Wild Poppies"
Marilyn Buck, political prisoner, poet, and activist reads her own poetry behind prison walls, including, “Blind Folded Men”, “Fashion Report”, “Wild Poppies”, “Prayer” and the complete “Incommunicado”.
Nellie Wong, Merle Wu, and Genny Lim read Marilyn Buck’s poetry along with their own. Nellie Wong, Merle Wu, and Genny Lim read Marilyn Buck’s poetry along with their own.
Call Number: WP 022Format: CDCollection: Materials Recorded and Gathered for "Wild Poppies"
Nellie Wong, reads a part of Marilyn Buck’s poem, “Incommunicado”, called “The Shu Special Housing Unit”. She also reads “The Owl” by Marilyn Buck as well as her own poem, “Toss Up”. Merle Woo, reads Marilyn’s poem, “Pennsylvania Death March” and her own poem “Yellow Woman Speaks”. Poet Genny Lim reads Marilyn’s “Rescue the Word” and her own poem “Annunciation”.
Akwasi Evans and Mariann Wizard read Marilyn Buck’s poems Akwasi Evans and Mariann Wizard read Marilyn Buck’s poems
Date: 12/1/2003Call Number: WP 023Format: CDProducers: Mike KellerCollection: Materials Recorded and Gathered for "Wild Poppies"
Mariann Wizard, reads Imperatives , To the Woman Standing Behind Me in Line, and her own poem - The Real Dragon - about Marilyn’s eventual release from prison. Akwasi Evans reads Marilyn’s poems Space and No Frills.
Marilyn Buck statement Marilyn Buck statement
Date: 9/15/2005Call Number: WP 024Format: CDProducers: National Radio ProjectCollection: Materials Recorded and Gathered for "Wild Poppies"
Marilyn Buck greeting and thanking supporters attending the release parties for the Wild Poppies CD in New York City and Berkeley, CA. This is a call from a federal prison.
Festival del Sexto Sol: a Conference on Chicano-Latino Literature held in March 1972, sponsored by Stanford University. Festival del Sexto Sol: a Conference on Chicano-Latino Literature held in March 1972, sponsored by Stanford University.
Date: 4/1/1974Call Number: CAA 012Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsCollection: Arts, literature and poetry – a program series produced by Comunicacion Aztlan
Recorded outdoors. Includes poets: Nina Serrano, Alejandro Murguia,Carmen Olivares,Fernando Alegria,Pamela Donnegan, Jose Montoya,Dorinda Moreno,Roberto Vargas, Victor Hernandez Cruz and a theatrical skit by Los Topos. Also reports from the conference forums. Same as CD 373.