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tctpod-season1-05: Before I was an African-American artist

November 22, 2013 by yuvi

In this podcast episode, I talk to Harold Johnson – poet, novelist, musician, artist, teacher, editor, and more. Harold is an African-American man who was born in 1930s Yakima, Washington and I really wanted to listen to him talk about growing up in this time and place. It is only one piece to the story of who he is, but a piece I definitely wanted to hear. So I hope you’ll join me on this journey into 1930s & 1940s rural Washington.

Links:

  • Harold’s poetry appears in Beyond the Frontier: African American Poetry for the 21st Century
  • …and in How to be This Man: The Walter Pavlich Memorial Poetry Anthology

Show outline:

  • 00m:00s – Introduction
  • 02m:59s – The first thing I remember
  • 06m:09s – Falling in love with the trumpet
  • 09m:42s – On being an athlete
  • 15m:15s – It was a big trip
  • 16m:26s – Johnson’s got good form
  • 17m:52s – We have some new children and they’re Negroes
  • 21m:59s – My first sports heroes were white
  • 24m:19s – The war
  • 26m:05s – Identified as an artist (mentors 1)
  • 32m:15s – Girls
  • 35m:36s – Buddies
  • 39m:14s – Jews from Brooklyn (mentors 2)
  • 44m:53s – A flair for writing
  • 47m:04s – College
  • 50m:27s – Growing up in the Pacific Northwest
  • 56m:48s – Harold as a poet
  • 1h:04m:19s – You look good! You look good!

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