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{SPEAKER name="Brooks B. Robinson"}

--of Afro-American Studies, Professor Sarah Fabio.

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{SPEAKER name="Brooks B. Robinson"}

At the time of our interview, Mrs. Danner was experiencing visual difficulties. Professor Fabio reads her works.

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{SPEAKER name="Brooks B. Robinson"}

I'm your host, Brooks Robinson.


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{SPEAKER name="Brooks B. Robinson"}

Professor Fabio, you might start by introducing our audience to Mrs. Danner
through some of her works and asking her some of the major questions you have in mind.
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{SPEAKER name="Sarah Fabio"}
Alright, I know that 1966 was probably a big year for you Margaret
and that is the year that I met you.
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We were both in Africa for The First World Festival of Negro Arts at Dakar, Senegal
and I heard Margaret there reading some of her poetry with its African imagery and African themes
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and I can say that she was very much appreciated by the international audience.
What kinds of things did 1966 bring to you, Margaret?
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{SPEAKER name="Margaret Danner"}
1966 was a kind of rebirth in that in Africa I found so many of my friends on their native soil.
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I walked down one street and there would be Langston Hughes, and there was Sinclair Drake,
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and there was Sarah Fabio and many, many others and we were all at home in Africa,
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and I feel that it regenerated the spark in us and that we have come a much faster, higher pace
because of the Senegal, um
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{SPEAKER name="Sarah Fabio"}
Right, right[[affirmative]]. I know that you, of your involvement with 'Boone House' in Detroit
not only had you worked as a poet for many years in Chicago, but I know that you worked in Detroit and also as far away as the LeMoyne College environment, in Memphis.
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Maybe you wanna tell us about the kind of dues paying the poet has to pay, outside of just writing?
[[crosstalk]]
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{SPEAKER name="Margaret Danner"}
Mm,hmm [[affirmative]] Well, it is a paying of dues, except that to me,

Transcription Notes:
Boone House info: http://www.kingsolomonchurch.org/