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Alex Ferguson : [Action Poetry performance video]

Item is a video recording of Alex Ferguson's performances at Action Poetry ’94. Performances include:

  1. [Foreign language] (1:14)
  2. [I’m a smoker and nobody loves me] (2:22)
  3. [The future] (2:09)
  4. [Kitty] (0:49)
  5. [Executive mantra] (2:23)
  6. [The first ruby] (2:00)
  7. [Stroke your box of pain] (1:18)
  8. [The mad ferret] (1:59)
  9. [Last night I dreamed] (0:40)

Jayne Cortez : [Action Poetry performance video]

Item is a video recording of Jayne Cortez' performances at Action Poetry ’94. Performances include:

  1. I got the blues (1:31)
  2. Into this time (3:30)
  3. So what (0:45)
  4. [I am New York City] (1:50)
  5. [If the drum is a woman] (1:28)
  6. [In Brazil] (2:46)
  7. [Me and my people] (2:13)
  8. [And what about the poetry of Nicolás Guillén] (3:34)
  9. Rape (1:59)
  10. [Don’t write another word] (0:26)
  11. She got, he got (5:06)
  12. [These New York City pigeons] (1:59)
  13. Cultural operations ’92 (2:34)
  14. [Everybody wants to be somebody] (1:10)
  15. [Hey, be cheerful] (1:20)
  16. Everywhere drums (5:17)

Djewel Davidson : [Action Poetry performance video]

Item is a video recording of Djewel Davidson's performances at Action Poetry ’94. Performances include:

  1. [You wanted to kill me] (0:58)
  2. [We got booked at the National] (0:19)
  3. Deeper than Pat Benatar (0:26)
  4. [Girl I’d really like to smash your car] (0:45)
  5. [What do we even talk about] (0:41)
  6. ‘Cause you can’t tape ‘em (0:09)
  7. [A few years earlier] (1:48)
  8. [I thought I knew what we were talking about] (0:32)
  9. [We got there and I told someone to start cooking] (0:59)
  10. [Painful and in silence] (0:31)
  11. [After about an hour and a half] (0:38)
  12. [Don’t want to remember] (1:17)
  13. [I woke up Monday morning] (0:30)
  14. [In the coin operated supermarket car] (0:21)
  15. [I’m keeping my shutters shut] (0:43)
  16. [It was warm outside] (0:12)
  17. [Perhaps I can be excused] (0:45)
  18. [Derrick was pleased] (1:54)
  19. Film shoot (5:00)
  20. [Time will tell] (4:00)
  21. [I ran naked through the threshold] (2:02)
  22. Song for Tamara (3:39)
  23. Nice try, now quit (3:29)
  24. [You know when you are with me] (3:44)

Darryl Keyes : [Action Poetry performance video]

Item is a video recording of Darryl Keyes performances at Action Poetry ’94. Performances include:

  1. [You can see beer wine magazine] (6:42)
  2. [Don’t move your hips] (6:45)
  3. [Incision] [With drum intro] (1:22)
  4. [Buying chunks of mama’s walls] (6:42)
  5. [At the movies] (8:22)
  6. Tiger eye (6:05)
  7. On the corner (8:58)

Ahdri Mandiela : [Action Poetry performance video]

Item is a video recording of Ahdri Mandiela's performances at Action Poetry ’94. Performances include:

  1. [I chant, I chant] (0:33)
  2. Special request (5:34)
  3. [In my country] (1:49)
  4. [What is your life made of] (5:12)
  5. [She feels blue today] (3:05)
  6. [Got up this morning] (0:23)
  7. [Black Woman] (3:45)
  8. [For my sister whose heart broke] (1:19)
  9. [In the cane fields] (3:56)
  10. [Take a tour through my homeland] (0:33)
  11. [In South Africa today] (6:18)
  12. [Just send some sun] (0:27)
  13. African by instinct (8:09)

Queen Elizabeth High School, Shawna, Clifton, etc. : [Nat Christie Poetry Day video recording]

Item is a video recording of the Nat Christie Poetry Day workshops run by Action Poetry participants at Calgary schools. It includes workshops at Queen Elizabeth High School (with Shawna Dempsey, Lorri Millan, Clifton Joseph, and Adeena Karasick), and at the Plains Indians Cultural Survival School (with Wendy Berner).

Action Poetry audio recordings

Series consists of audio recordings of performances held as part of Action Poetry ‘94, as well as some studio recordings, remixes of performances, and cue sheets.

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