1960s Audio Programs
The Poetry Center's 1960s collection represents the transition with the new decade from the era of founding director Ruth Witt-Diamant, with Robert Duncan her assistant, to the emergence of many younger poets destined to become prominent. Striking highlights are several symposia, e.g., James Baldwin on the role of the writer; memorials for Robert Frost, Theodore Roethke, and Robinson Jeffers; LeRoi Jones (Amiri Baraka) and friends on his groundbreaking new work Blues People; a raucous panel on "Poetry and Censorship" (photo here) focused on Lenore Kandel's The Love Book and Michael McClure’s (more)
The Poetry Center presents Helen Adam reading from her poetry, and songs from her ballad opera San Francisco's...
Date: 05/05/1964
The Poetry Center presents James Baldwin, speaking and in discussion with Philip Roth and John Cheever, the final event...
Date: 10/22/1960
The Poetry Center presents Robin Blaser, reading from his own poetry and the works of his late friend and fellow poet...
Date: 3/9/1967
The Poetry Center presents Robert Bly, reading from his original poetry, subsequently published in his first book,...
Date: 10/25/1961
The Poetry Center presents Bengali poet Buddhadeva Bose reading poetry in English translation from among other works his...
Date: 04/06/1965
The Poetry Center presents Kay Boyle, at the time on the San Francisco State University faculty in English, reading from...
Date: 04/01/1964
The Poetry Center presents Richard Brautigan and Floyd Salas, reading from their own works.
Date: 02/28/1968
The Poetry Center presents James Broughton reading from his poetry and songs, with a performance by singer Anna Carol...
Date: 11/23/1960
The Poetry Center presents James Broughton reading his poems with Joel Andrews performing instrumental accompaniment on...
Date: 03/02/1965
The Poetry Center presents Bill Brown reading from his novel, The Way to the Uncle Sam Hotel and James Koller reading...
Date: 10/18/1967
The Poetry Center presents Spanish poet Luis Cernuda reading a selection of his poems in the original Spanish; a speaker...
Date: 12/06/1961
Shortly following the 1968 release of his book Soul on Ice , and during a time of civil unrest and riots in more than...
Date: 10/09/1968
The Poetry Center presents Henri Coulette reading early excerpts from The War of the Secret Agents, The Attic, and other...
Date: 04/19/1960
The Poetry Center presents Robert Creeley reading poems from his book Words, as well as a long prose piece titled The...
Date: 03/16/1966
The Poetry Center presents Guy Davis, Shirley Kaufman and Daniel Moore reading their poetry, in the Poetry Center's...
Date: 10/22/1963
The Poetry Center presents Diane di Prima, accompanied by musician John Braden, reading from plays and poems.
Date: 04/24/1968
The Poetry Center presents Richard Eberhart reading his poetry.
Date: 03/17/1960
The Poetry Center presents Clayton Eshleman, Robert Kelly, and Paul Blackburn reading from their works.
Date: 04/11/1969
The Poetry Center presents Lawrence Ferlinghetti reading from his selected works.
Date: 10/04/1961
The Poetry Center presents Kathleen Fraser and Jack Marshall reading their poems.
Date: 04/29/1968
The Poetry Center and San Francisco Public Library present Richard Eberhart delivering a memorial lecture on Robert Frost...
Date: 10/28/1964
The Poetry Center presents Jack Gilbert reading from Views of Jeopardy among other poems.
Date: 09/25/1962
The Poetry Center presents Allen Ginsberg and Herbert Huncke reading from their works.
Date: 02/07/1967
John Haines reads a selection of his poetry including poems from his book Winter News .
Date: 04/10/1967
Michael Hamburger reads original poems and his translations of German poets.
Date: 02/15/1967
Michael S. Harper reads poetry from his first book Dear John, Dear Coltrane among other work.
Date: 12/03/1969
The Poetry Center presents a Jazz Symposium on Blues People, featuring LeRoi Jones (a.k.a. Amiri Baraka), Philip Elwood,...
Date: 03/04/1965
The Poetry Center, in association with the Contemporary Arts Festival, presents novelists John Hawkes, Herbert Kubly, and...
Date: 03/12/1965
The Poetry Center presents LeRoi Jones (a.k.a. Amiri Baraka) reading poems from The Dead Lecturer , Sabotage , Target...
Date: 03/04/1965
The Poetry Center presents Galway Kinnell reading various works by other poets and selections from his second book,...
Date: 11/15/1965
The Poetry Center presents Carolyn Kizer reading other poets' works as well as her own poems and Classical Chinese...
Date: 02/27/1967
The Poetry Center presents Joanne Kyger and David Meltzer reading their poems.
Date: October 23, 1968
Philip Levine reads poems from his book, On the Edge
Date: 02/20/1962
Mark Linenthal, co-director of The Poetry Center, presents a lecture on trends and directions in contemporary American...
Date: 05/30/1965
The Poetry Center presents Lynn Lonidier and Bill Deemer reading from their works.
Date: 10/19/1965
The Poetry Center presents Robert Lowell reading from Life Studies and For The Union Dead . Lowell opens his reading...
Date: 05/10/1966
The Poetry Center presents Nanos Valaoritis reading from his poetry in English and Thanasis Maskaleris reading a...
Date: 05/23/1969
The Poetry Center presents Michael McClure reading from a series of poems based in childhood memory followed by excerpts...
Date: 05/13/1969
The Poetry Center presents W. S. Merwin reading from his collection The Drunk in the Furnace and unpublished poems.
Date: 04/26/1961
The Poetry Center presents George Oppen reading two major sequences from his 1968 book Of Being Numerous , for which he...
Date: 02/21/1968
The Poetry Center presents a return reading (following his early 1968 Poetry Center reading) by George Oppen, in honor of...
Date: 10/29/1969
This panel was convened by SFSU faculty in response to two events that took place in San Francisco in 1966: a police...
Date: 11/23/1966
The Poetry Center presents Paul Ramsey and Ron Loewinsohn reading from their selected works.
Date: 03/03/1964
The Poetry Center presents Margaret Randall and Sergio Mondragon reading their work. George Hitchcock reads the English...
Date: 12/15/1966
The Poetry Center Presents John Crowe Ransom reading a selection of poems
Date: 05/01/1963
The Poetry Center presents Kenneth Rexroth, reading translations as well his own selected works.
Date: 2/23/1965
The Poetry Center presents Charles Reznikoff and George Oppen in an early reading from their respective books, By the...
Date: 02/19/1963
The Poetry Center presents a two-part program dedicated to Robinson Jeffers (1887-1962). In part one, actor Joseph Miksak...
Date: 12/04/1962
The Poetry Center presents a reading by Delmore Schwartz.
Date: 3/07/1961
The Poetry Center presents Gary Snyder reading translations of Kenji Miyazawa and his own work, mostly unpublished at the...
Date: 11/29/1964
The Poetry Center presents Gary Snyder reading from his translations of Japanese and Chinese Poetry, as well as...
Date: 12/10/1969
The Poetry Center presents William Stafford reading from his works.
Date: 11/29/1967
The Poetry Center presents George Stanley reading from his poetry.
Date: 10/25/1967
The Poetry Center presents James Tate reading from The Lost Pilot and other works
Date: 03/06/1968
Charles Tomlinson reads from selected works including poems from Seeing Is Believing and A Peopled Landscape.
Date: 05/14/1963
The Poetry Center presents Gael Turnbull reading from his selected works.
Date: 4/12/1961
The Poetry Center presents Laura Ulewicz accompanied by Hillary Fowler; and Robert Sward.
Date: 9/28/1965
The Poetry Center presents Diane Wakoski reading from The George Washington Poems, The Magellanic Clouds , and The...
Date: 05/09/1969
The Poetry Center presents Philip Whalen reading from selected works.
Date: 03/11/1968
The Poetry Center presents James Wright sharing his favorite poetry and reading from The Branch Will Not Break .
Date: 04/26/1965
The Poetry Center presents James Wright, reading poems from his collections The Branch Will Not Break and Shall We...
Date: 04/17/1968
The Poetry Center presents renowned Japanese scholar-translator Nobuyuki Yuasa talking on Basho and the haiku tradition,...
Date: 11/15/1966