Yama Wilson, Clip 1: From Basketball Player to Poet
Collection: Queens Memory Collection at the Archives at Queens Library: Yama Wilson
Date: Time Period: 1970s; 2016-04-08; Interview recorded: April 8, 2016
Material: Digital audio recording made using H2n Zoom digital recorder and Adobe Soundbooth. Dimension:
Total running time: 0:05:17
Creator: Yama Wilson interviewed by Reshad Hai and Arbesh Khan
Identifier: aql:20445 qmp-yw-clip-000003
Description: Yama talks about how much he loved basketball when he was younger, how it was his escape from the violence and turmoil in his life. Then, when his mother barred him from playing for his school team, he started writing poetry, and that has taken him over since.
Creator :
Yama Wilson interviewed by Reshad Hai and Arbesh Khan
Date :
Time Period: 1970s; 2016-04-08; Interview recorded: April 8, 2016
Summary/Description :
Yama talks about how much he loved basketball when he was younger, how it was his escape from the violence and turmoil in his life. Then, when his mother barred him from playing for his school team, he started writing poetry, and that has taken him over since.
Subject :
Basketball; Poetry
Rights :
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Coverage :
Locations discussed: Harlem, New York, NY Harlem (New York, N.Y.) Jamaica (New York, N.Y.) Queens (New York, N.Y.)
Type :
Oral history
Format :
Digital audio recording made using H2n Zoom digital recorder and Adobe Soundbooth.; Total running time: 0:05:17
Identifier :
aql:20445 qmp-yw-clip-000003
Rights Notice
Contact digitalarchives@queenslibrary.org for research and reproduction requests.
Contact digitalarchives@queenslibrary.org for research and reproduction requests.
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