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Poetry from Violence (edited version), a poetry reading in conjunction with the San Francisco Conference on Violence Against Women (to be held December 4 & 5, 1976). This reading was held at Glide Memorial Church, San Francisco, November 19, 1976. Contents: Intro by Ruth Hughes, who reads a poem; Kathy Barr: A Woman Is Sitting Next to Me Drowning, Suicide of Boss' Wife; Sandy Boucher: Particularly In the Case of Children; Rosalie Cassell: Hitchhiking Blues; Beverly Dahlen: For Darlene Tower, My Friend, Died of Suicide: July 17, 1972; Suky Durham: How They Endured, For Janice; Rosella Felsenfeld: Yankee PIG DOG Poem; Phoenix Spring Ensemble, intros to Celestial Dwellers, Fisherman's song; Carole Lamb: Sequel to The Butchers; Lynn Lonidier: The Woman Sex-Partner Enterprise Dream; Edith Loyd: Working Women Poems, Love Story; Dorinda Moreno: Dios era su esposo; Gail Newman: A little affection; Gyl Rosenblum, Forgetting; Barbara Starkey, Institution; Carol Seajay, Sister Killed, Sister Died, Suicide?; Ray Smith, Electric Shock Treatment, West London Hospital, 1971; Gail Todd, Vietnamese Orphans; Nellie Wong, "Is the act of murder..."; Contains sensitive language.

Susan Griffin, poet, playwright and author, and Nellie Wong, poet and activist, read on the opening night of the Feminist Perspectives on Pornography Conference in San Francisco on November 17, 1978, organized by Women Against Violence in Pornography and Media (WAVPM). Lilia Medina introduces the reading. Griffin reads her poem Deer Skull (for Hallie) and then reads excerpts from her new book Woman and Nature: The Roaring Inside Her (New York: Harper & Row, 1978) (same as AZ1072?). Wong opens by first talking about the San Francisco Chronicle's racist review of the show Pearl, then reads dialogue from her play The Interrogation of Ms. Security-Runs-A-Risk, then reads two of her poems, Plain English and On the Crevices of Anger.

Judy Irving and Ruth Landry, co-director/writer and producer, respectively, of the anti-nuclear documentary film Dark Circle (1982), are interviewed by Julia Randall of KPFA's Women's Department. Irving and Landry talk about plutonium pollution and how nuclear power and weapons affect everyday people, and their specific focus on women as the leading voices of the anti-nuclear movement. Clips from the film are heard throughout the program.

Writer and diarist Anais Nin answers questions from audience members at UC Berkeley, touching on topics such as art, liberation, her diaries and other writings, acceptance from the establishment, and feminism. Includes musical performance by Richard Stoltzman of a solo clarinet movement from Messiaen's Quartet for the End of Time.