Search Results
![Staajabu Reads The Visit](images/thumbnails/MP3.jpg)
Format: mp3Producers: Freedom ArchivesCollection: Materials Recorded and Gathered for "Wild Poppies"
Straight Out Scribes member Staajabu reads her poem on the emotional turmoil of a prison visit.
![Kiilu Nyasha Reads In Memory of Kuwasi Balagoon](images/thumbnails/MP3.jpg)
Format: mp3Producers: Freedom ArchivesCollection: Materials Recorded and Gathered for "Wild Poppies"
Kiilu Nyasha reads her poem in memory of Black Panther Party and Black Liberation Army leader Kuwasi Balagoon, who died in prison in 1986. Kiilu Nyasha is a revolutionary artist, activist and journalist in the liberation struggle for over 35 years. A former Black Panther, she is a radio and newspaper journalist who has done much to keep political prisoners in the public eye.
![Elana Levy reads I Saw Your Picture Today](images/thumbnails/MP3.jpg)
Format: mp3Producers: Freedom ArchivesCollection: Materials Recorded and Gathered for "Wild Poppies"
Elana Levy reads Marilyn Buck's poem for Lori Berenson, a political prisoner.
![Devorah Major Reads Prison Chant](images/thumbnails/MP3.jpg)
Format: mp3Producers: Freedom ArchivesCollection: Materials Recorded and Gathered for "Wild Poppies"
Devorah Major reads Marilyn Buck's piece on the devastation of incarceration on the family. Devorah Major, San Francisco's third poet laureate, is also a novelist, essayist, teacher and arts activist.
![Vini Bhansali Reads A 15 year-old Palestinian Woman in Prison](images/thumbnails/MP3.jpg)
Format: mp3Producers: Freedom ArchivesCollection: Materials Recorded and Gathered for "Wild Poppies"
Vini Bhansali Reads Marilyn Buck's poem on Palestinian political prisoners. As part of Poetry for the People, Vini co-facilitated a writing workshop at the Federal Correctional Institution at Dublin, California (FCI Dublin), where she met Marilyn.
![Marilyn Buck Reads Reading Poetry](images/thumbnails/MP3.jpg)
Format: mp3Producers: Freedom ArchivesCollection: Materials Recorded and Gathered for "Wild Poppies"
Poem read by the author.
![Jean Stewart Reads Bird Watchers](images/thumbnails/MP3.jpg)
Format: mp3Collection: Materials Recorded and Gathered for "Wild Poppies"
Jean Stewart reads Marilyn Buck's poem. Jean Stewart is a Bay Area poet, novelist, short story writer, and social justice/disability rights activist. Founder of the Disabled Prisoners' Justice Fund, she has been working with disabled prisoners for over a decade.
![Presente! Performs Blues for Shaka](images/thumbnails/MP3.jpg)
Format: mp3Producers: Freedom ArchivesCollection: Materials Recorded and Gathered for "Wild Poppies"
Presente! performs Marilyn Buck's poem on the Jim Crow era, accompanied by music.
![David Meltzer Reads Revelation](images/thumbnails/MP3.jpg)
Format: mp3Producers: Freedom ArchivesCollection: Materials Recorded and Gathered for "Wild Poppies"
David Meltzer reads Marilyn Buck's poem for Wild Poppies. David teaches at New College of California in San Francisco.
![Sonia Sanchez Reads Prayer](images/thumbnails/MP3.jpg)
Format: mp3Producers: Freedom ArchivesCollection: Materials Recorded and Gathered for "Wild Poppies"
Sonia Sanchez reads Marilyn Buck's piece for "Wild Poppies". award-winning poet, playwright, editor, author, her work spans five decades. She held the Laura Carnell Chair in English at Temple University until her retirement in 1999.