Echoes of My Self Still Traveling (Colleen McElroy)
- 1994 ----- color ----- 28 min ----- vhs
- (Upon Reflection series) Host Marcia Alvar talks with Colleen McElroy, Professor of English and Creative Writing Instructor, University of Washington, and award-winning author of novels, short stories, television and stage plays and, most nota bly, poetry. Professor McElroy speaks of her early home-life and how it affected her love of language and her first poems. Awarded a Fulbright Fellowship, she discusses her study of Madagascar's storytellers, myths and customs and illustrates her observ ations with photographs. She discusses her approach to poetry and explains her belief that poetry mirrors the rumblings of change.
- Topics: (American Ethnic Studies: Afro-American, Biography, Literature: American)
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