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{SPEAKER name="Margaret Danner"}
me, it was alive. It was something that I wanted to do, and I think that I lived longer because I was doing it. I certainly did experience a much more sensitive way of life than I would have would I have, had I not been writing.
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{SPEAKER name="Margaret Danner"}
The writing has thrown me into contact with people who were so highly sensitive in every city, Detroit is just full of beautiful people.
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{SPEAKER name="Margaret Danner"}
Dudley Randall was there and we did 'Poem Counterpoem', and he started his publishing press.
And uh Naomi Madgett Long is a Detroiter,
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{SPEAKER name="Margaret Danner"}
And, oh I could just name many, many and I had a little cultural center called Boone House that was sort of, loaned to me by
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a Dr. Boone who owns so much property and so many homes. And this was his, kind of, Parish House which he did not need. And so the writers would all come, Bob Hayden came, and we would get together there,
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{SPEAKER name="Margaret Danner"}
and write and talk and freeze to death because I tried to live there.

{SPEAKER name="Sarah Fabio"}
[[laughs]]
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{SPEAKER name="Margaret Danner"}
And the beautiful thing about it, the neighbor, the children, they would come by and drop quarters and their parents would put a dollar or two in the mail box and all, because they wanted a cultural center there. And the atmosphere there for building a culture is very beautiful.
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{SPEAKER name="Sarah Fabio"}
Yes, Detroit is probably one of the most supportive cultural places

{SPEAKER name="Margaret Danner"}
Mm, hmm, mm, hmm [[affirmative]]

{SPEAKER name="Sarah Fabio"}
that we have. Uh,
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{SPEAKER name="Sarah Fabio"}
Not only Motown, and of course Motown has had a big thing there.

{SPEAKER name="Unknown"}
That's right.

{SPEAKER name="Sarah Fabio"}
Aretha Franklin's father's church is there,

{SPEAKER name="Margaret Danner"}
Mm, hmm. Mm, hmm. Mm, hmm. [[affirmative]]

{SPEAKER name="Sarah Fabio"}
and you have people like that.

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{SPEAKER name="Sarah Fabio"}
And then, just straight-up literary figures,

{SPEAKER name="Margaret Danner"}
Yeah. [[affirmative]]

{SPEAKER name="Sarah Fabio"}
as you said, Broadside, of which Margaret's first book 'Poem Counterpoem' was published with.

{SPEAKER name="Margaret Danner"}
Mm, hmm. [[affirmative]]

{SPEAKER name="Sarah Fabio"}
And it was the first book published by this new publishing house.
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{SPEAKER name="Margaret Danner"}
Yeah. [[affirmative]]

{SPEAKER name="Sarah Fabio"}
And of course, Margaret has come a long way since the publication of this small, about 20 page, volume, that she shared with Dudley. 'Til today when she's just published 'The Down of A Thistle', which is a large, fully illustrated, a hundred and ...


Transcription Notes:
Naomi Madgett Long Dudley Randall