Reading: Etheridge Knight

In this audiovisual recording from Wednesday, March 18, 1981, as part of the 12th Annual UND Writers Conference: “Voices,” Etheridge Knight reads a selection of poems. Knight reads “Hard Rock Returns to Prison from the Hospital for the Criminally Insane,” “He Sees Through Stone,” “For Freckle-Face Gerald,” “To the Man Who Sidled Up to Me and Asked, \u27How Long You in Fer, Buddy?\u27,” “The Idea of Ancestry,” “The Warden Said to Me the Other Day,” “To Make a Poem in Prison,” “As You Leave Me,” “The Violent Space (Or When Your Sister Sleeps Around For Money),” “Apology for Apostasy,” “Portrait of Mary,” “My Uncle is My Honor and a Guest in My House,” “Welcome Home, Andrew Young, I\u27m Sure Glad You Didn\u27t Get Hung,” recites a version of the African American oral poem “Shine” and his own “Dark Prophecy: I Sing of Shine,” reads “No Moon Floods the Memory of that Night,” “Ilu, the Talking Drum,” “Welcome Back Mr. K: Love of My Life,” “A Poem On the Middle East Peace Project,” “And Tell Me, Poet, Can Love Exist in Slavery?,” and “Bellysong (For the Daytop Family).