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Interview with poet Nikki Giovanni

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White, Conrad Rivero, Marita Barrow-Murray, Barbara Jones, Vickie Correia, Dennis Spooner, Dighton Handyside, Keith Fairweather, Bill Balhatchet, Tom Spangler, Jennifer Crippens, David

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In this clip Poet Nikki Giovanni discusses her early career and the responsibility of artists to make their work known. Overall the program focuses on poetry not only as an art form, but as a vehicle for engendering social change and new attitudes towards the arts. Composed of a number of segments, Poetry and Arts includes a reading of a Paul Lawrence Dunbar poem by Elma Lewis (Director of the National Center of Afro-American Artists) to a group of young children, an excerpt from an interview with poet Nikki Giovanni, a tutorial on getting published, an editorial on the "state of the arts" by House Representative Louis Stokes (Ohio), and a listing of new volumes of poetry of interest to the African American community. Produced by Marita Rivero. Directed by Conrad White.
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Keywords

  1. African American Poets
  2. African American Women
  3. African Americans
  4. Dunbar, Paul Laurence 1872 1906
  5. Elma Lewis School Of Fine Arts (Roxbury, Mass.)
  6. Giovanni, Yolande Cornelia (Nikki)
  7. Lewis, Elma
  8. National Center Of Afro American Artists (Roxbury, Mass.)
  9. Poetry
  10. Stokes, Louis
  11. Women
  12. Women Authors

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