[Poetry reading at the Allentown Community Center, Buffalo, N.Y., February 20, 1987] / Sonia Sanchez.

Recorded at Allentown Community Center in Buffalo, N.Y. on Friday, February 20, 1987 on a TDK 90 minute cassette tape by Paul Hogan, who donated the recording to the Poetry Collection.

Following an introduction by an unnamed woman, Sonia Sanchez performs her poetry. Recording cuts off in the middle of Poem of praise, at "there is nothing which does not come to an end and to live..." and resumes at "your memories of me light my way..." Sanchez reads from her works: Under a soprano sky, I've been a woman, and Homegirls & handgrenades.

Sonia Sanchez.

The Poetry Collection of the University Libraries. Digital conversion was made possible through a 2009 National Endowment for the Humanities grant.

1987

Sound recording

HOG022

Elegy (for MOVE and Philadelphia) --Philadelphia: spring, 1985 --A poem for my brother (reflections on his death from AIDS: June 8, 1981) --Song no. 2 --Two love poems --Dear Mama --Stalin No. 1 --Sequences --Prelude to nothing --Some love, tanka, haiku --Short poem for us slick ones --Poem of praise --Traveling on an Amtrak train could humanize you --Reflections after the June 12th march for disarmament --Just don't never give up on love --A letter to Dr. Martin Luther King.

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