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Photo: Karen Johnson
Al Young and Harry Belafonte, KPFA Benefit at First Congregational Church, Berkeley, CA | 30 November 2011
BELAFONTE FOR BEGINNERS
Three years before “I Have a Dream” got preached,
the 1960 March on Washington
propelled us into DC. Once we reached
the Saturday when you were going on,
mean horseback cops reared up to stomp us. “Stop!”
one hollered in a trembling southern drawl.
“Let them kids live!” We thanked this rebel cop
with gut sighs, then we cut straight for the Mall.
You, Harry Belafonte, sang our songs.
You let us know you came down on our side.
Green college kids, we knew what rights, what wrongs
forced us to see you, hear you, while we died.
No caving in. No turning back. Just home.
Calypso? All we heard was: “Daylight, come!”
—Al Young
© 2011 Al Young
Photo: Jan Etre
Photo: Jan Etre
[L-R] Poet Al Young, actor Danny Glover, painter Arthur Monroe | First Congregational Church, Berkeley |
30 November 2011
Courtesy Kindness of Strangers
The poet in October
Al Young and legendary Keystone Korner club owner Todd Barkan | City Lights Books | Photo: Samuel Wooten
© Samuel Wooten
Guitarist Calvin Keys prepares to read from Kathy Sloane’s Keystone Korner: Portrait of a Jazz Club | City Lights Books
Samuel Wooten
Author-photographer Kathy Sloane in triumphant, joyful City Lights book launch mode
Photo: Al Young
Rosemary Hutcherson and Bobby Hutcherson (master vibist and storyteller) | City Lights Books
© Jim Dennis
Al Young, Terri Hinte, Ora Harris, Rosemary Hutcherson | City Lights Books
© Al Young
devorah major, San Francisco’s former poet laureate, takes in author-photographer Kathy Sloane’s presentation during a jam-packed book launch for Keystone Korner: Portrait of a Jazz Club at City Lights Books. Up in the background, poet Q.R. Hand mulls it all over.
With Jeanne Houston at the 2011 PEN/Faulkner Gala
At the 2011 PEN/Faulkner Gala, Washington DC, September
Poet Natasha Threthaway, novelist-memoirist Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston, and Al Young just before the PEN/Faulkner Gala dinner in Washington, DC.
Al Young
Maxine Hong Kingston speaks of her life-long friendship with James and Jeanne Houston at the Heyday book launch for The Queen’s Journey, an unfinished novel by James D. Houston.
UNDER CONSTRUCTION
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30 November 2011
Courtesy Kindness of Strangers
The poet in October
Al Young and legendary Keystone Korner club owner Todd Barkan | City Lights Books | Photo: Samuel Wooten
© Samuel Wooten
Guitarist Calvin Keys prepares to read from Kathy Sloane’s Keystone Korner: Portrait of a Jazz Club | City Lights Books
Samuel Wooten
Author-photographer Kathy Sloane in triumphant, joyful City Lights book launch mode
Photo: Al Young
Rosemary Hutcherson and Bobby Hutcherson (master vibist and storyteller) | City Lights Books
© Jim Dennis
Al Young, Terri Hinte, Ora Harris, Rosemary Hutcherson | City Lights Books
© Al Young
devorah major, San Francisco’s former poet laureate, takes in author-photographer Kathy Sloane’s presentation during a jam-packed book launch for Keystone Korner: Portrait of a Jazz Club at City Lights Books. Up in the background, poet Q.R. Hand mulls it all over.
With Jeanne Houston at the 2011 PEN/Faulkner Gala
At the 2011 PEN/Faulkner Gala, Washington DC, September
Poet Natasha Threthaway, novelist-memoirist Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston, and Al Young just before the PEN/Faulkner Gala dinner in Washington, DC.
Al Young
Maxine Hong Kingston speaks of her life-long friendship with James and Jeanne Houston at the Heyday book launch for The Queen’s Journey, an unfinished novel by James D. Houston.
UNDER CONSTRUCTION
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