More proof: an inventory of oversized items in the #ALA archives at #UIUC includes the KRS-One poster:
https://files.archon.library.illinois.edu/alasfa/1203012a.pdf
Also lists a lot of other READ poster stars including some surprises, like Mikhail Baryshnnikov? Huh.
Fabio.
Billy Dee Williams.
So, now to find an actual copy of the KRS-One poster.
I recently posted about a KRS-One READ poster that I can't find any images of on the internet.
I was genuinely beginning to think that I'd dreamed it but my wife found a reference to it, in this article! I thought he was maybe holding a copy of Black Athena - was wrong there - but glad to learn I am not delusional, on this count anyway.
https://www.flavorwire.com/124667/musicians-read-posters-a-visual-timeline
Ok, I SWEAR that I used to have an image of a KRS-One READ poster (like the attached from David Bowie), where he was holding a work of African history, possibly a classic of the Afrocentric canon.
I also could have sworn I first saw it hanging in a public library many years ago.
But I can't find it anywhere online.
Does anyone know what I'm talking about? Did I completely dream this up? Feel free to boost widely...
In my head it was super dope! But maybe my fandom imagined it, lol.
Trevor Burrows