Wilma was painfully shy and generally reluctant to read her work publicly. She claimed that her voice sounded like a bumble bee in a rain barrel. However, no one else ever read her poetry so well, and fortunately, some recordings were made. Below are a few examples.
Wilma Elizabeth McDaniel remembers the painful Oklahoma Dust Bowl experience of relocation in her poems" Origins" and "Via Dolorosa." Both poems are found in A Primer for Buford, Hanging Loose Press, 1990.
In this excerpt from Chris Simon's film Down an Old Road, Wilma honors her Oklahoma heritage. Appearing with the Red Dirt Rangers at the Weedpatch Festival, in Lamont, California in 1998, she reads A Prince Albert Wind and Buried Treasure. Professor Gerald Haslam discusses her work.
Wilma reads "Ancestor" which her unpublished manuscripts and private papers indicate is a poem about her paternal grandfather.
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