PHOTO POTPOURRI
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Photo: Eugrne B. Redmond
Poets Eugene B. Redmond and Al Young | Miami, FL 2009
Jane Hirshfield and Al Young at Books Inc, San Francisco, April 2008
Photos: Katherine Hastings
Ishmael Reed at piano
Photo: Al Young
Al at Cal Arts, July 2006
Scene on the river: Kerala, India 2005 | Christopher Wurst
Al on the river: Kerala, India 2005 | Christopher Wurst
Songster-guitarist Marc Silber and Taj Mahal at Saul’s Deli, Berkeley, Christmas Eve 2007
Carl Martineau
National Book Award poet Robert Hass and Sedge Thompson in ardent conversation on West Coast Live! from San Francisco, December 2007
Al Young
Robert Hass and Sedge Thompson following a broadcast of West Coast Live! from Piedmont Piano, San Francisco 2007 | Kathi Kamen Goldmark
Stanford classics lecturer Patrick Hunt and philanthropist Helen Bing, Stanford Faculty Club 2007
Biographer Diane Wood Middlebrook (1939-2007) at the 2005 National Book Awards, New York City
Miriam Berkeley
Black Classics Press founder W. Paul Coates and novelist Walter Moseley, New York 2005
With Aunt Doris, Detroit 2007
Aunt Mae, Detroit 2007
Carol Harris and Melba Joyce Boyd at the Detroit Institute of Arts 2007
With poet-critic-novelist-playwright Bill Harris, Detroit 2007
Poet Naomi Shihab Nye, fellow National Book Awards judge for poetry, Greenwich Village 2005
Poet and National Book Awards judge chair Michael Waters, Greenwich Village 2004
San Francisco’s KALW host Alan Farley interviews Al, December 2007
Al Young
devorah major, former poet laureate of San Francisco, at KALW in 2007
Al Young
Novelist-essayist-folklorist Cecil Brown describes a new project for 2008
Al Young
With California State Librarian Susan Hildreth at the 2006 California Library Association Conference, Sacramento
With Lemlem Rijio, general manager of Pacifica Radio’s KPFA, on acceptance of the KPFA Peace Award, December 2006
An emotional Sunday morning performance with bassist Dan Robbins at the Brown Trout Gallery & Café in historic Dunsmuir, CA, April 2007
With New Orleans poet and Bob Kaufman biographer Mona Lisa Saloy, Marcus Books, Oakland 2006
Poets Conyus and Glenda Ewing meet at Marcus Books, 2006 | Al Young
Voting rights activist Emma Cheuse and her father, novelist and NPR broadcaster Alan Cheuse, swap jokes at a house party hosted by novelist Susan Richards Shreve and literary agent Timothy Seldes, Washington DC, 2006 | Al Young
The suave, effervescent novelist and raconteur Nicholas Delbanco, Washington, DC 2006 | Al Young
Pulitzer Prize journalist Clarence Page, Washington, DC 2006 | Al Young
Al Young with PEN/Faulkner administrator Jamilla Coleman, popular DC high school teacher Frazier O’Leary, and PEN/Faulkner board member Lisa Page | Run-up to the PEN/Faulkner benefit reading with Nicholas Delbanco at Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, DC, November 2006
Michael Young and Dad holding a rare handmade poster for an early 1950′s poetry reading by Langston Hughes sponsored by the Palo Alto-Stanford NAACP; photographed Christmas 2007 | Arline Young
Reading with the Suezenne Fordham Chamber Jazz Ensemble in South Pasadena, 2007
Featured speaker at International House annual celebration, UC Berkeley, Winter 2007 | Evangeline Canonizado Buell
With Rhae Lynn Barnes and Jonathan Lewis of Berkeley Poetry Review following the 2007 Escape from New York Pizza benefit reading in San Francisco with poet-novelist Mary Mackey for Poetry After the Storm. In the wake of Katrina, New Orleans public libraries, like its public schools, are being left to die. Working at first with UC’s NAACP, Berkeley Poetry Review continues to organize benefit readings to help neglected libraries in the Big Easy. | Mary Mackey
Poet Colleen McElroy reads from Sleeping with the Moon at Marcus Books, December 2007
Al Young
With Colleen McElroy, Oakland 2007
Jack Foley
Al and Jack Foley confer at KPFA, Berkeley 2007
Adelle Foley
Photographer Charles L. Robinson and Al Young, co-authors of Jazz Idiom: Blueprints, Stills and Frames, forthcoming from Heyday Books
Joseph Robinson
With poet-memoirist Adam David Miller at California’s Livermore Arts Center, 2007
