Box 60

Scope and Contents From the Series: Series 4, Press, Programs, and Ephemera, 1970-2019, undated, includes newspapers and magazine clippings with coverage and reviews of Shange’s and others’ works; playbills and programs; flyers and posters; press materials for works of Shange’s and works of others that she attended; recordings of television and radio media appearances; and ephemera such as travel itineraries, theater tickets, and book jackets. This series documents both Shange’s own creative output and frequent speaking...

Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series: Subseries 1.25, Other and multiple works, 1996-2018, undated, includes materials related to other works by Shange (for which there were not enough items to constitute a subseries). This subseries also contains groupings of materials in which multiple works were originally arranged together (for example, photocopies of multiple excerpts or poems grouped and edited for performance or anthologies). Types of materials include photocopies of published works (some with notes), typewritten and...

Scope and Contents Description from the Poetry Center Digital Archive. Recording of The Poetry Center presents Ntozake Shange, in a rare early recorded appearance, at the César Chavez Student Union building on the campus of San Francisco State University. Shange reads from her poetry, including work from her subsequent book Nappy Edges (St. Martins Press, 1978) and from her "choreo-poem" for colored girls who have considered suicide / when the rainbow is enuf (1976). Bay Area-based small publisher Shameless...