The Library of Congress has a rich collection of audio recordings of black poets and other writers reading their works. Here's a checklist of some of their holdings by year.
1963: Arna Bontemps - reading
1970: Kamau Braithwaite - reading
1971: Michael S. Harper - reading
1972: Lucille Clifton - reading
1973: Leon Damas and Sterling Brown - reading
1973: Sterling Brown - reading
1974: June Jordan - reading
1974: Ishmael Reed and Allen Gingsberg - reading
1975: Dudley Randall - reading
1976: Gwendolyn Brooks, Robert Hayden, and Michael S. reading - reading
1976: Jay Wright - reading
1977: Audre Lorde - reading
1977: Dolores Kenderick - reading
1978: Robert Hayden and Dudley Randall - reading
1978: Robert Hayden - reading
1979: June Jordan - reading
1979: Alice Walker - reading
1982: Kamau Brathwaite - reading
1985: Gwendolyn Brooks - reading
1985: Mari Evans - reading
1985: Angela Jackson - reading
1985: Toni Cade Bambara - reading
1986: Derek Walcott - reading
1986: James Baldwin - reading
1986: Rita Dove - reading
1986: Haki Madhubuti and Sonia Sanchez - reading
1986: Etheridge Knight - reading
1986: Gwendolyn Brooks - reading
1989: Lucille Clifton - reading
1993: Rita Dove - reading
1993: Edward P. Jones - reading
1995: Claudia Rankine - reading
1995: Rita Dove - reading
1997: Carl Phillips - reading
1994: Marilyn Nelson - reading
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• 7 ways of thinking about African American Literature & Culture
• A Roundup of Zora Neale Hurston recordings - Library of Congress
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