Monday, February 22, 2021

2021 Black Writers Read-in

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We celebrate Black History Month with the work of African and African-American Writers read by members of the Sag Harbor community.

The annual Read-In is sponsored by the Black Caucus of The National Council of Teachers of English.

It was produced by the John Jermain Library, the Eastville Community Historical Society and Canios Books all of Sag Harbor.

The readers are Catherine Creedon director of the John Jermaine Library, Sag Harbor artist Michael Butler, Gloria Brown and Nancy Meyers.

Heard are an African folk tale "If People Could Fly", and “Talking Drums, a Selection of Poems From Africa South of the Sahara, James Baldwin’s “Letter to My Nephew on the One Hundredth Anniversary of the Emancipation”, from The Fire Next Time. and Let America be America Again by poet Langston Hughes.

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Jacqueline Marks reads a portion of the short story Sweat (1926) by Zora Neale Hurston

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Tuesday, January 26, 2021

Eliot’s Four Quartets - Pauline Yeats

 

We present poet, and creative consultant, Pauline Yeats, reading Burnt Norton, the first of the Four Quartets by  T S Eliot.

Eliot’s Four Quartets were written from 1935 to 1942, during Hitler’s rise and Word War Two.

This was the first of four programs presented this month by the East Hampton, New York library

listen here:

East End Ink - 27 January - T.S. Eliot - Quartet 1 - Burnt Norton

Videos courtesy the East Hampton Library:

Thanks to the Library's Steven Dino Spataro

Quartet 1: Burnt Norton

Quartet 2: East Coker

Quartet 3 Dry Salvages

Quartet 4 ... coming soon  

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Wednesday, June 24, 2020

Carl Safina - Becoming Wild: How Animal Cultures Raise Families, Create Beauty and Achieve Peace

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We present ecologist and author Carl Safina talking about his book Becoming Wild: How Animal Cultures Raise Families, Create Beauty and Achieve Peace
 
Carl Safiina spoke in June 2020 at a zoom event produced by the non-profit Canios Cultural Café.
 
Here is Carl Safina in this edited version of his talk:
 
The complete talk, introduced by Canio's Kathryn Szoka is here
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Becoming Wild: How Animal Cultures Raise Families, Create Beauty and Achieve Peace was published in 2020 by Henry Holt and Company.

Carl Safina’s essay “Melville’s Whale Was a Warning We Failed to Heed” was published by the New York Times in May 2020.

Other works by Carl Safina include:

Beyond Words: What Animals Think and Feel from Picador/Macmillan in 2015
A Sea in Flames - the Deepwater Horizon Oil Blowout from Random House in 2011 ,
and The View from Lazy Point,  from Henry Holt, in 2011.

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