These clips are from the short film From the Museroom: A Sampler of Minnesota Poets, shot in 1976 during a Poetry Collective benefit at the Firehouse in Minneapolis, Minn. Above: “Violence on Television.” Below: “Dream of Wealth.”
(Readings by Robert Bly and other poets from the same event are in the another post.)
Here’s a 2010 clip of Jenkins from WDSE-TV’s Venture North program.
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Made my day, Paul. I love this work.
I remember finding “An Almost Human Gesture” after taking Cal Benson’s class up at Central. What a great read. I’m glad I found it early in my life.