"R" Videos

Lannan Video Catalogue

An asterisk (*) following the name of the author indicates that the artist is also featured in the video Where Poems Come From, filed under the letter "W."

Raymo, Chet (2001)

* Author: Chet Raymo

* Interviewer: Scott Russell Sanders

* Director: Thunder Road Productions

* Running time: 1 hour 20 minutes

From the video jacket:

"Chet Raymo is a writer, teacher, and naturalist [. . . ] whose twelve books include Natural Prayers, Skeptics and True Believers, and The Soul of the Night: An Astronomical Pilgrimage. Mr. Raymo, who received a Lannan Literary Award for Nonfiction in 1998, teaches physics and astronomy at Stonehill College in Massachusetts and writes a science column for the Boston Globe. Mr. Raymo read on April 26, 2000."

"Scott Russell Sanders's books include Hunting for Hope: A Father's Journey, The Country of Language, Secrets of the Universe: Scenes from the Journey Home, and Staying Put: Making a Home in a Restless World. Mr. Sanders received a Lannan Literary Award for Nonfiction in 1995."

Reading, Peter (1992)

        * Author:                                   Peter Reading

        * Interviewer:                          Michael Silverblatt and Christopher Hitchens

        * Director:                                 Dan Griggs/Media Revolution

        * Running time:                         60 minutes

From the video jacket:

"Peter Reading is one of England's most inventive and challenging poets. His language is brilliantly original, compassionate, and laced with acid humor. This program documents his first reading in the United States. Mr. Reading, who received a Lannan Literary Award for Poetry, read from Evagatory and Dipolic and talked with Christopher Hitchens and Michael Silverblatt. The reading and conversation took place in Los Angeles on April 21, 1992.

"Michael Silverblatt is the producer and host of the highly acclaimed 'Bookworm,' a literary interview program broadcast on public radio stations nationwide."

Reed, Ishmael (1989)

        * Author:                                   Ishmael Reed*

        * Interviewer:                            Lewis MacAdams

        * Producers and Directors:       Lewis MacAdams and John Dorr

                                                            Metropolitan Pictures and EZTV

        * Running time:                         60 minutes

From the video jacket: "Ishmael Reed is a groundbreaking novelist, poet, dramatist, and publisher who received the MacArthur Fellowship in 1998. Mr. Reed's style is a raucous mix of comic fantasy and provocative social commentary. On May 26, 1989, Ishmael Reed read from New and Selected Poems and his novel The Terrible Threes at Beyond Baroque in Venice, California. Ishmael Reed was interviewed by poet Lewis MacAdams."

Rich, Adrienne--Vol. I (1992) (see also next two entries)

        * Author:                                   Adrienne Rich

        * Interviewer:                          Michael Silverblatt

        * Director:                                 Dan Griggs/Media Revolution

        * Running time:                         60 minutes

From the video jacket:

"During her 40-year career, Adrienne Rich has been a poet of great moral presence and enduring creative power whose aesthetic is linked with her political sensibilities. Ms. Rich read from An Atlas of the Difficult World, Diving into the Wreck, and The Fact of a Doorframe and talked with Michael Silverblatt. The reading and conversation took place on May 14, 1992, in Los Angeles, California.

"Michael Silverblatt is the producer and host of the highly acclaimed 'Bookworm,' a literary interview program broadcast on public radio stations nationwide."

Rich, Adrienne--Volume II (1998) (see also the previous and next entries)

        * Author:                                   Adrienne Rich

        * Interviewer:                           Eavan Boland

        * Director:                                 Dan Griggs/Media Revolution

        * Running time:                         60 minutes

From the video jacket:

"Adrienne Rich has said the trajectory of her work has been to find the 'voice of the individual speaking not to herself, or to his beloved friend, but to and from a collective, social realm.' Born in Baltimore in 1929, Ms. Rich has published more than 15 volumes of poetry. Ms. Rich has been honored with a Lannan Lifetime Achievement Award, a MacArthur Fellowship, and a Tanning Award. Ms. Rich read from Snapshots of a Daughter-in-Law, The Dream of a Common Language, and Midnight Salvage on February 3, 1998.

"Eavan Boland is the author of Object Lessons: The Life of the Woman and the Poet in Our Time and An Origin Like Water. Ms. Boland received a Lannan Literary Award for Poetry in 1994."

Rich, Adrienne--Volume III (2001) (see also the previous two entries)

        * Author:                                   Adrienne Rich

        * Interviewer:                            Carol Muske

        * Director:                                 Thunder Road Productions

        * Running time:                         1 hours 25 minutes

From the video jacket:

"Adrienne Rich was born in Baltimore in 1929. Ms. Rich has published more than 16 volumes of poetry, including Midnight Salvage, Dark Fields of the Republic, and An Atlas of the Difficult World. Her essay collections include What is Found There: Notebooks on Poetry and Politics; Blood, Bread, and Poetry; On Lies, Secrets, and Silence; and Of Woman Born: Motherhood as Experience and Institution. Ms. Rich, who received a Lannan Literary Award for Lifetime Achievement in 1999, read from Dark Fields of the Republic . . . and Midnight Salvage on September 29, 1999."

"Carol Muske's poetry books include An Octave above Thunder and Red Trousseau. She is also the author of Women and Poetry: Truth, Autobiography, and the Shape of the Self. Ms. Muske teaches at the University of Southern California."

Rodriguez, Luis J. (1993)

        * Author:                                   Luis J. Rodriguez

        * Interviewer:                            Michael Silverblatt

        * Director:                                  Dan Griggs/Media Revolution

        * Running time:                         60 minutes

From the video jacket:

"Luis J. Rodriguez is a poet, journalist, and publisher who grew up in Watts and East Los Angeles. Mr. Rodriguez read from his books of poetry, The Concrete River and Poems Across the Pavement, and from his memoir, Always Running, La Vida Loca: Gang Days in L.A. On December 8, 1992, in Los Angeles, he was interviewed by Michael Silverblatt.

"Michael Silverblatt is the producer and host of the highly acclaimed 'Bookworm,' a literary interview program broadcast on public radio stations nationwide."

Rogers, Pattiann (1993)

        * Author:                                   Pattiann Rogers

        * Interviewer:                            Michael Silverblatt

        * Producers and Directors:       Lewis MacAdams and John Dorr

                                                            Metropolitan Pictures and EZTV

        * Running time:                         90 minutes

From the video jacket:

"Pattiann Rogers' poetry is widely noted for its astonishing, sensual, and accurate detailing of the biological, botanical, and zoological worlds. Ms. Rogers, who received a Lannan Literary Award for Poetry in 1991, read from Geocentric, The Tattoed Lady in the Garden, Splitting and Binding, and unpublished work. She read on May 4, 1993, in Los Angeles and talked with Michael Silverblatt.

"Michael Silverblatt is the producer and host of the highly acclaimed 'Bookworm,' a literary interview program broadcast on public radio stations nationwide."

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