File, Digital Video

Eady: Reading
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Digital video transferred from a MiniDV tape containing raw footage of Cornelius Eady's Contemporary American Authors Lecture series Reading at Marygrove College on April 11, 2003.

The recording opens with Dr. Frank Rashid's introduction, during which he asks the Dr. Teddy Harris, Jr.'s jazz trio to play one last selection. The camera captures some of their performance, then the recording pauses.

The recording resumes with Dr. Rashid back at the podium. He recognizes several members of the audience, and makes some announcements about the program. Next, Marygrove's president, Dr. Glenda D. Price, addresses the audience to recognize donors Lillian and Donald Bauder, who for the program will then be renamed. Dr. Rashid then returns to the podium to introduce Dr. Mary Helen Washington. Dr Washington then provides an introduction for Cornelius Eady.

In his presentation, Cornelius Eady begins by reading June M. Jordon's poem "The Bombing of Baghdad," followed by his own works, "Poetry," "Florida," "The Woman," "Double Team," "Sanctified," "I'm A Fool To Love You," "Almost Grown," "Leavin' Trunk," "April," "Johnny Laces up his Red Shoes," "Radio," "Jazz Dancer," "Gratitude," "Why Was I Born: A Duet between John Coltrane and Kenny Burrell," "Photo of Miles Davis at Lennieson-the-Turnpike, 1968," "Thelonious Monk," "Nobody's Business," "How I Got Born," "Who Am I?," "Sightings," "Where Am I?," "The Law," "Composite," "Uncle Tom in Heaven," "What I'm Made Of," "What the Sheriff Suspects," "Next of Kin," "What Is Known About the Abductor," "Sympathy," "Confession," and "Birthing." At the end of the last poem, Eady steps away from the podium, and the recording ends.