Joanne Kyger and Robert Adamson: March 6, 2015

The Poetry Center presents Joanne Kyger and Australian poet Robert Adamson, reading primarily from new works: Kyger's On Time (City Lights Books, 2015) and Adamson's Net Needle (Flood Editions, 2015.)

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APA
Location
Unitarian Center, San Francisco
Date
03/06/2015
Total Run Time
01:02:13
Contributor
Steve Dickison
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Joanne Kyger (00:20:20)

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Steve Dickison welcomes the audience then introduces Joanne Kyger. Kyger opens with three short poems: "Night Palace," "Bottomless Geography," and "Soko Morinaga," then reads from the manuscript of On Time, poems written 2005-2015, just prior to that book's publication by City Lights Books.

Robert Adamson (00:34:20)

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Steve Dickison introduces Robert Adamson. Adamson reads, among other work, from his new U.S. book, Net Needle, from Flood Editions, and comments, between poems, on his life and work, including his early friendship with Robert Duncan and subsequent relations with American poets and poetry.

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