Women Authors/Poets/Artists

Adrienne Rich
"During her 40-year career, Adrienne Rich has been a poet of great moral presence and enduring creative power, a poet whose aesthetic is linked with her political sensibilities. Ms. Rich reads from An Atlas of the Difficult World, Diving into the Wreck and The Fact of a Doorframe and talks with Michael Silverblatt. The reading and conversation took place on May 14,1992, in Los Angeles"--Container.

An Angel at My Table
Chronicles the life of one of the 20th century's most gifted writers, Janet Frame.

Anne Waldman
Anne Waldman, twice the World Heavyweight Poetry Bout Champion and co-founder of the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at the Naropa Institute, reads from Helping the Dreamer, New & Selected Poems, and unpublished work at the Los Angeles Theatre Center. She is interviewed by Lewis MacAdams.

The Art of Love: the Paintings and Writings of Melinda Camber Porter
Part of U.S. traveling exhibition. Sponsored by the Cultural Services of the French Embassy. As paintings by Melinda Camber Porter are shown, she reads her poetry or prose. Includes an interview with the British painter/writer who now lives in France.

Alice Walker
Pulitzer Prize winner Alice Walker reads poems and excerpts from her novels, The color purple and The temple of my familiar. Evelyn White interviews Walker at her home on June 22, 1989.

Barbara Guest
"Barbara Guest read from her Selected poems' on April 16, 1996."--Container.

Carolyn Forche
Carolyn Forche, winner of the lamont Poetry Prize, and the Yale Series of Younger Poets Awards, reads and talks to students at Crossroads School in Los Angeles. She is interviewed about her work by Lewis MacAdams--Container.

Georgia O'Keeffe
Explores the life and work of Georgia O'Keeffe.

Laurie Anderson: Collected Videos
Performance artist Laurie Anderson performs several songs and visuals.2) Violin intro -- Headknock piece -- What you mean we? (Clone interview) -- TV PSA -- Smoke rings -- Women and money PSA --Beautiful red dress -- Rocky rambo -- National anthem PSA -- Language is a virus -- Language is a virus discussion -- The dream before -- Home tour -- Drum dance -- Sharkey's day -- Japanese stutter from the eleventh hour -- Reagan "Alive from off center" -- Military research PSA -- Blackboard "Alive from off center" -- Clone drumming "Alive from off center" -- National debt PSA -- O Superman -- What you mean we? (Clone's clone).

Maya Deren: Collected Experimental Films
Examples of Maya Deren's work evoke and exemplify the American avant-garde film movement of the 1940s and 1950s.

Sylvia Plath
Situations from the life of Sylvia Plath, with recitations from her poetry.