June Jordan at the Brockport Writers Forum Brockport Writers Forum 2017-10-19 | June Jordan reads "A Poem about Intelligence for my Brothers and Sisters" and talks about selling poems to her friends, state violence against black life, and the power of the public library system. This is an edited version of a 42-minute interview that took place on September 25, 1981. To see the full video plus many more visit our archive at https://dspace.sunyconnect.suny.edu/browse/dateissued?scope=c19c62f5-763f-4dc8-ae6d-1d29323a2b6c
November 6, 2024: The Ingersoll Reading: Alicia Elliott Brockport Writers Forum 2024-10-17 | The Ingersoll Reading: Alicia Elliott, author of the novel And Then She Fell, a Globe and Mail Best Book of 2023 and winner of the 2024 Amazon Canada First Novel Award. A Haudenosaunee writer, Elliott is also the author of the 2020 memoir A Mind Spread Out On The Ground, a national bestseller in Canada, described by the CBC as "an urgent and visceral work that asks essential questions about the treatment of Native people in North America while drawing on intimate details of her own life and experience with intergenerational trauma."
The Art of Fact Reading: Eric Gansworth Brockport Writers Forum 2024-05-02 | Wednesday May 1, 2024 Brockport Downtown/SUNY REOC, 161 Chestnut Street, RochesterEric Gansworth is a member of Eel clan, enrolled Onondaga, born and raised at the Tuscarora Nation. A writer and visual artist, he has published a dozen books, including the novels Mending Skins (Pen Oakland Award) and Extra Indians (American Book Award, NAISA Book of the Year) and the young adult novels If I Ever Get Out of Here (Honor Award, American Indian Youth Literary Award; One Book, One Philadelphia 2020) and Give Me Some Truth (Whippoorwill Award). His book Apple (Skin to the Core), a memoir-in-verse and images, was longlisted for the 2020 National Book Award. He is Professor of English and Lowery Writer-in-Residence at Canisius College in Buffalo, New York. As a visual artist, he has had solo exhibitions at the Castellani Museum, Colgate University, Westfield State University, SUNY Oneonta and Bright Hill Center. The Art of Fact Reading will take place at Brockport Downtown / REOC. www.ericgansworth.com
The Ingersoll Reading: Allegra Goodman Brockport Writers Forum 2023-11-09 | The Ingersoll Reading: Allegra Goodman7:30pm ESTBrockport Downtown, 161 Chestnut St, Rochester NY Allegra Goodman is a New York Times bestselling author and a finalist for the National Book Award. The New York Times called her latest novel, Sam, “A portrait of a girl at risk that shimmers with an unusual intimacy and depth.” The book is a Today Show / Read With Jenna Book Club selection. Goodman’s other novels include The Chalk Artist (winner of the Massachusetts Book Award), Intuition, The Cookbook Collector, Paradise Park, and Kaaterskill Falls. Her short stories have appeared in The New Yorker, Commentary, and Ploughshares and have been anthologized in The O. Henry Awards and Best American Short Stories.Presented with the support of the Ingersoll Family Foundation.For more of the Brockport Writers Forum, visit our video archive at https://dspace.sunyconnect.suny.edu/browse/dateissued?scope=c19c62f5-763f-4dc8-ae6d-1d29323a2b6c
The Brockport Writers Forum Presents the Art of Fact Reading: Steve Majors Brockport Writers Forum 2023-04-27 | Steve Majors is the author of High Yella: A Modern Family Memoir. Kirkus Reviews called it “A brave reckoning with multiple questions of identity, class, family, race, and other thorny issues.” Majors grew up in rural Western New York, the youngest of five kids raised by a single mother. His work is influenced by his experiences as a white appearing, mixed-race child in an all Black family as well as his life as a gay man raising two Black daughters in an interracial, interfaith family. His writing has appeared in the New York Times, Washington Post, NBC Think, Huffington Post and Medium. This event will take place on Wednesday, April 26, 2023, 7:30 pm, at Brockport Downtown / REOC, 161 Chestnut Street, Rochester, New York.For more of the Brockport Writers Forum, visit our video archive at https://dspace.sunyconnect.suny.edu/browse/dateissued?scope=c19c62f5-763f-4dc8-ae6d-1d29323a2b6c
Robin Wall Kimmerer - Rochester Reads Brockport Writers Forum 2021-10-21 | Co-sponsored with Writers & Books. Robin Wall Kimmerer is the author of Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants. A botanist and a member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation, she is founder and director of the Center for Native Peoples and the Environment at the SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry. This event is the keynote address of the 2021 Rochester Reads series, organized by Writers & Books in Rochester, NY. For more about Rochester Reads, visit wab.orgFor more of the Brockport Writers Forum, visit our video archive at https://dspace.sunyconnect.suny.edu/browse/dateissued?scope=c19c62f5-763f-4dc8-ae6d-1d29323a2b6c
Cornelius Eady at the Brockport Writers Forum Brockport Writers Forum 2018-05-24 | Cornelius Eady reads from his first books and discusses early influences in Rochester, his love of dancing, June Jordan, and the danger of saying the wrong thing. This is an edited version of a 46-minute interview that took place February 5, 1987 in Brockport, NY. The full video is available in our archive: https://dspace.sunyconnect.suny.edu/browse/dateissued?scope=c19c62f5-763f-4dc8-ae6d-1d29323a2b6c
Ishmael Reed at the Brockport Writers Forum Brockport Writers Forum 2017-11-07 | Ishmael Reed reads two poems and discusses Chattanooga, hoodoo, and his novel "Mumbo Jumbo." This is an edited version of a 46-minute interview that took place May 1, 1974 in Brockport, NY. The full video is in our archive, with many others: https://dspace.sunyconnect.suny.edu/browse/dateissued?scope=c19c62f5-763f-4dc8-ae6d-1d29323a2b6c
The Brockport Writers Forum Brockport Writers Forum 2017-11-04 | Founded in 1967, the Brockport Writers Forum has recorded hundreds of interviews with writers such as Grace Paley, John Berryman, Ishmael Reed, Margaret Atwood, Ha Jin, and John Ashbery. The Forum is a program of the College at Brockport, SUNY. For more visit our archive at https://dspace.sunyconnect.suny.edu/browse/dateissued?scope=c19c62f5-763f-4dc8-ae6d-1d29323a2b6c
Robert Hayden at the Brockport Writers Forum Brockport Writers Forum 2017-10-16 | Robert Hayden reads "Those Winter Sundays" and discusses W.B. Yeats, accusations of "literary Uncle Tomism," the Bahá’í faith, and Frederick Douglass. This is an edited version of an hour-long interview conducted in Brockport, NY on March 3, 1975. The full video, with many others, is available in our archive: https://dspace.sunyconnect.suny.edu/browse/dateissued?scope=c19c62f5-763f-4dc8-ae6d-1d29323a2b6c
John Berryman at the Brockport Writers Forum Brockport Writers Forum 2016-09-28 | John Berryman reads "The Song of the Tortured Girl" and discusses apprenticeship, where "Henry" came from, loss of friends, and love and sex. Click the CC button to turn captions on--Berryman's speech can be hard to follow here. William Heyen describes his visit to Brockport in "A Memoir of John Berryman," anthologized in FIRST PERSON SINGULAR, ed. Joyce Carol Oates. The interview took place on October 7, 1970; this is an edited version of the 58-minute recording. For more visit our archive at https://dspace.sunyconnect.suny.edu/browse/dateissued?scope=c19c62f5-763f-4dc8-ae6d-1d29323a2b6c
Gary Snyder at the Brockport Writers Forum Brockport Writers Forum 2016-09-28 | On the day after Nixon's re-election, Gary Snyder talks about poetry, politics, ecology, and eating deer. This is an edited version of a 45-minute interview recorded on November 8, 1972. For more visit our archive at https://dspace.sunyconnect.suny.edu/browse/dateissued?scope=c19c62f5-763f-4dc8-ae6d-1d29323a2b6c
Margaret Atwood at the Brockport Writers Forum Brockport Writers Forum 2016-09-28 | Margaret Atwood on being disapproved of for writing novels, the search for an indigenous mode of expression, and the allegedly mesmerizing effect of her cover photos. This is an edited version of a 45-minute interview recorded on September 13, 1979 and published as "Evading the Pigeonholers" in the collection "Margaret Atwood: Conversations," edited by Earl G. Ingersoll. For more visit our archive at https://dspace.sunyconnect.suny.edu/browse/dateissued?scope=c19c62f5-763f-4dc8-ae6d-1d29323a2b6c
