All sorts of education: an interview with William J. Harris

PennSound Podcasts

In Episode 49 of PennSound podcasts, this interview tracks William J. Harris' genesis and early development as a poet and intellectual. Harris' artistic and cultural education occurs during the late '50s, the '60s and the early '70s and takes place primarily in and around academic institutions: the liberal college, Antioch, which is in his hometown of Yellow Springs, Ohio, and the nearby black state university, Central State, in Wilberforce, and the story, if not exactly concluding, comes to "a momentary stay against confusion" at Stanford University in Northern California where he did his MA in creative writing and a PhD in English.