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Facing It by Yusef Komunyakaa

On 4 June, 2009 by Dave Bonta with 0 Comments - interviews, Performance Poetry
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http://youtu.be/IaeNQC7PWK4

Poem by Yusef Komunyakaa

Read by Michael Lythgoe for the Favorite Poem Project

African-American folk poetry: gandy dancers

On 7 April, 2009 by Dave Bonta with 2 Comments - Documentary, interviews, Performance Poetry
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Excerpt of a film by Barry Dornfeld and Maggie Holtzberg-Call

Gandy dancers were the guys who straightened track. A YouTube preview from a full-length documentary (not embeddable) on Folkstreams.net.

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