Panel

In this audiovisual recording from Wednesday, March 19, 1975, as part of the 6th Annual UND Writers Conference: “Spirit of Place, Ken Kesey, N. Scott Momaday, Wendell Berry, and Alice Walker participate in a panel. The panelists engage in a workshop of the poems published in the latest issue of North Country. The panelists discuss their reactions to the issue and workshop “For B------: A Prospective Suicide” by Mary Balaz, selected and read by Wendell Berry; “Legacy” by William Virgil Davis, selected and read by Alice Walker; “What is Left” by Mark Vinz, selected by Berry; “Fort Mandan” by David Solheim, read by the author; “The Saga of the Third-World Bell” by Ishmael Reed, selected and read by Ken Kesey; and “At the Bar” by Anthony Oldknow, read by the author. N. Scott Momaday closes by reading “North Dakota, North Light.” Moderated by Dr. John Little, Founder of the UND Writers Conference