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About this Item

Title

  • Recording of the Conference on Teaching Creative Writing, held in the Coolidge Auditorium, Jan. 29 and 30, 1973

Names

  • Conference on Teaching Creative Writing (1973 : Library of Congress)
  • Jacobsen, Josephine
  • Coleman, Elliott, 1906-
  • Ciardi, John, 1916-1986
  • Engle, Paul, 1908-1991
  • Garrett, George, 1929-2008
  • Morrison, Theodore, 1901-1988
  • Stegner, Wallace, 1909-1993
  • Eberhart, Richard, 1904-2005
  • Browne, Michael Dennis
  • McNeill, Anthony
  • Momaday, N. Scott, 1934-
  • Williams, Miller
  • Walker, Margaret, 1915-1998
  • Lederer, William J., 1912-2009
  • Barth, John, 1930-2024
  • Ellison, Ralph
  • Gaines, Ernest J., 1933-2019
  • Macauley, Robie
  • Rubin, Louis D., Jr. (Louis Decimus), 1923-2013
  • Gertrude Clarke Whittall Poetry and Literature Fund
  • Archive of Recorded Poetry and Literature (Library of Congress)

Created / Published

  • 1973.

Contents

  • Reel 1-2. Monday morning session. A perspective of academic programs in creative writing / chairman, Elliott Coleman ; panel, John Ciardi, Paul Engle, George Garrett, Theodore Morrison, Wallace Stegner ; A statement by Richard Eberhart. -- Reel 2-4. Monday afternoon session: The writing of poetry / chairman, Paul Engle ; panel, Michael Dennis Browne, John Ciardi, Elliott Coleman, Josephine Jacobsen, Anthony McNeill, N. Scott Momaday, Miller Williams. -- Reel 5-6. Monday evening reading: I want to write ; October journey ; Molly means ; The ballad of Harriet Tubman ; For my people everywhere ; The ballad of the hoppy toad / Margaret Walker -- The caterpillar ; Let me tell you ; How the elephant got his hump ; Love poem ; Problems in the space-time continuum (Undiscovered letters to Mitzi Mayfair) ; I go out of the house for the first time ; And then ; Vision in black and white ; A toast to Floyd Collins / Miller Williams -- Readings by Mr. William J. Lederer (two prose pieces, one fiction, one nonfiction) -- Readings by John Barth (from Chimera) --
  • Reel 7-8. Tuesday morning session: The writing of fiction / chairman, Wallace Stegner ; panel, John Barth, Ralph Ellison, Ernest J. Gaines, George Garrett, Robie Macauley, Margaret Walker -- Reel 9-11. The writing of nonfiction prose / chairman, John Ciardi ; panel, William J. Lederer, Ralph Ellison, Josephine Jacobsen, N. Scott Momaday, Louis D. Rubin, Jr., Wallace Stegner -- Reel 11-12. Tuesday evening reading: Prelude, by Derek Walcott ; Notes on a September day ; Residue ; Who's Sammy? ; Elegy plus ; The compassionate spider ; Black space ; Don ; The brother Joe ; The lady accepts a needle again; A letter from Jenny / Anthony McNeill -- The names (selections) ; Plain view one ; Plain view two / N. Scott Momady -- Hallowe'en ; Handicapped children swimming ; The wife of winter's tale ; The lady and the goat ; A song for children, possibly ; Two births ; Song ; Paranoia ; Robert Bly gets up early ; Pebble ; Owl, to John Berryman ; Epithalamion : wedding dawn / Michael Dennis Browne -- Just like a tree (selections) / Ernest J. Gaines.

Headings

  • -  Creative writing--Study and teaching--Congresses

Notes

  • -  Host and moderator, Josephine Jacobsen.
  • -  Sponsored by the Gertrude Clarke Whittall Poetry and Literature Fund, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
  • -  Recorded for the Archive of Recorded Poetry and Literature.
  • -  Literary recordings, rev., enl. ed., p. 44-45.

Medium

  • 12 sound tape reels : analog, 7 1/2 ips, 1 track, mono. ; 10 in.

Call Number/Physical Location

  • LWO 7195, reel 1-12

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 95770539

Online Format

  • audio

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Conference On Teaching Creative Writing, Josephine Jacobsen, Elliott Coleman, John Ciardi, Paul Engle, George Garrett, Theodore Morrison, et al. Recording of the Conference on Teaching Creative Writing, held in the Coolidge Auditorium, Jan. 29 and 30. 1973. Audio. https://aj.sunback.homes/item/95770539/.

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Conference On Teaching Creative Writing, Jacobsen, J., Coleman, E., Ciardi, J., Engle, P., Garrett, G. [...] Archive Of Recorded Poetry And Literature. (1973) Recording of the Conference on Teaching Creative Writing, held in the Coolidge Auditorium, Jan. 29 and 30. [Audio] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://aj.sunback.homes/item/95770539/.

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Conference On Teaching Creative Writing, et al. Recording of the Conference on Teaching Creative Writing, held in the Coolidge Auditorium, Jan. 29 and 30. 1973. Audio. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <aj.sunback.homes/item/95770539/>.