Audio/Video

AUDIO

Jeffers was featured on the podcast “The Poet and the Poem,” with Grace Cavalieri,  from the Library of Congress. Listen here:


 

VISUAL

Poet Laureate Natasha Trethewey introduces 2014 Witter Bynner fellows Honorée Fanonne Jeffers and the late Jake Adam York. Jeffers reads her poetry starting at 30:37, and Trethewey reads the work of York.


 

Jeffers reads excerpts from Outlandish Blues and Red Clay Suite at the 2003 Marjorie Cook Conference on Diversity in African American Poetry Diversity held at Miami University, Part I.


 

Jeffers reads excerpts from Outlandish Blues and Red Clay Suite at the 2003 Marjorie Cook Conference on Diversity in African American Poetry Diversity held at Miami University, Part II.


A Black Poetry Courtship, a short animation by Honorée Fanonne Jeffers. A humorous look at serious issues women of color in academia and the literary world face.


A video from the American Antiquarian Society, on why history and historical documents matter. Jeffers, a former Fellow, is featured beginning 6:18, speaking about her research on Phillis Wheatley. She continues to discuss the importance of exploring our true history.