Tyehimba Jess Audience Q&A, Bowdoin College, September 7, 2006
Tyehimba Jess answers audience questions about his poetry following his reading at Bowdoin College, September 7, 2006.
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Live Readings from the Fishouse Launch, Bowdoin College, April 30, 2005
On April 30, 2005, From the Fishouse celebrated its official launch at Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine with the unveiling of our new website and poetry readings by Adrian Blevins, Tyehimba Jess, Gibson Fay-LeBlanc, and Patrick Rosal. You can listen to each poet’s full reading (approximately 10 minutes each) and/or you can listen to the […]
Tyehimba Jess Full Reading, Fishouse Launch, April 30, 2005
Tyehimba Jess reading Freedom, Martha Promise Receives Leadbelly, and A Mother’s Hymn, recorded live at the Fishouse launch party, Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Maine, April 30, 2005.
freedom (live, April 2005)
Tyehimba Jess reading freedom, recorded live at the Fishouse launch party, Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Maine, April 30, 2005
martha promise receives leadbelly (live, April 2005)
Tyehimba Jess reading martha promise receives leadbelly, 1935, recorded live at the Fishouse launch party, Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Maine, April 30, 2005
five year sentence (live, April 2005)
Tyehimba Jess reading five year sentence, recorded live at the Fishouse launch party, Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Maine, April 30, 2005
sallie ledbetter: a mother’s hymn (live, April 2005)
Tyehimba Jess reading sallie ledbetter: a mother’s hymn, recorded live at the Fishouse launch party, Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Maine, April 30, 2005
mothafucka
missing consonants the raggedy way a beggar or a bad-ass misses teeth, it found the shape of our mouths, snuck in like a second-story-man, and laid claim to whatever adult or adulation lay inside. sixth grade’s paul daniels was one cray-zy muh-thuh-fuh-cka for doin’ push ups in the middle of detroit’s meyers road during after […]