Theater video tags: 1987

Toni Morrison on Beloved

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“I am convinced that the more I am well-known, the better known I am, the easier it is for other writers to come along,” says Toni Morrison in this 1987 interview with PBS NewsHour’s Charlayne Hunter-Gault on her success as an author and what inspired her novel Beloved, which won the 1988 Pulitzer Prize in fiction.

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Fiction
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Toni Morrison
Beloved
Knopf
Pulitzer Prize
PBS NewsHour
1987
interview
in memoriam

The Neutralized Sore of the Unshackled Bear

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Will Alexander reads the poem "The Neutralized Sore of the Unshackled Bear" from his first book, Vertical Rainbow Climber (Jazz Press, 1987), at a 2012 event at Beyond Baroque in Venice, California. Alexander is the 2016 recipient of the Jackson Poetry Prize, an annual Poets & Writers award currently in its tenth year.

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Poetry
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2012
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Will Alexander
1987
Beyond Baroque
Vertical Rainbow Climber
Jazz Press
The Neutralized Sore of the Unshackled Bear
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