James Broughton and Helen Adam: November 2, 1977
The Poetry Center presents James Broughton and Helen Adam, presenting their poetry at a special reading held at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, with their friend and peer Robert Duncan on hand to introduce each of them. Broughton reads an extended set of poems, drawing on Erogeny: A Geographical Expedition (1976) and Odes for Odd Occasions (1977), both from Manroot Press, along with selections from Seeing the Light (City Lights Books, 1977), and from The Androgyne Journal. Adam, visiting from New York City, where she moved after leaving San Francisco (the move in part was in order to work on a New York production of her ballad opera San Francisco's Burning), reads and sings for a vigorous program of her postmodern ballads and songs, from Turn Again to Me and Other Poems (Kulchur Foundation, 1977) and earlier works.
Lewis MacAdams, as Poetry Center director, welcomes the audience and introduces Robert Duncan, Assistant Director of The Poetry Center in the 1950s, as "the soul of the San Francisco poetry scene," after calling attention to Poetry Center founding-director Ruth Witt-Diamant, who takes a bow before what appears to be a full-house audience in Gresham Hall, at Grace Cathedral, San Francisco.
- Publisher
- American Poetry Archives
- Location
- San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
- Date
- 1977-11-02
- Event Run Time
- 01:49:37
- Contributors
- Lewis MacAdams
- Robert Duncan
- Ruth Witt-Diamant
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