17: “Sitting with the Work” with Frederick-Douglass Knowles II
/Professor of English and Hartford Poet Laureate Emeritus Frederick-Douglass Knowles II joins the show to discuss being compelled to write, teaching versus instructing, and always having jazz on in the background.
Show notes for this episode:
- Sabbatical
- London
- Newcastle University
- University of Rochester
- Frederick Douglass
- Center Church, Hartford, CT
- Fred's website
- “Who Is Frederick-Douglass Knowles II, Hartford's First Poet Laureate?”
- Key West, FL
- Nassau, Bahamas
- Botswana
- Eastern Connecticut State University
- Makes Me Wanna Holler by Nathan McCall
- Sanyika Shakur
- Spoken word
- Southern Connecticut State University
- BlackRoseCity by Frederick-Douglass Knowles II | Amazon
- Sinking in Moonlight Alone by Frederick-Douglass Knowles II
- Hip-hop
- Poetry
- Rhyme scheme
- Marilyn Nelson | Poetry Foundation
- Margaret Gibson
- José B. González
- “I, Too” by Langston Hughes
- “Harlem” by Langston Hughes
- Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, CT
- The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien | Bookshop.org
- Jazz
- Hartford Art School
- Bebop
- John Coltrane
- Miles Davis
- Charlie Parker
- Dizzy Gillespie
- Hard bop
- Big band
- Louis Armstrong
- The History of Jazz by Ted Gioia
- Jazz documentary by Ken Burns
- Hemingway episode 1 by Ken Burns | YouTube
- The Vietnam War by Ken Burns
- Rock and Roll
- “Macho Rock: Men Always Seem to End Up on Top” by Susan Hiwatt
- Kanye West
- Tina Turner
- Beyoncé
- Tupac Shakur
- Johann Sebastian Bach
- Albums for iOS
- Longplay for iOS
- The College Dropout
- The Low End Theory
- “In Defense of Kanye’s Vanity: The Politics of Black Self-Love” by Heben Nigatu
- Audre Lorde
- Hypertension
- Libra
- Siren: The Voices of Shelley Beattie