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The Poetry Center and the Museum of the African Diaspora co-present artist Asya Abdrahman and writers Faith Adiele and Tonya M. Foster, each presenting their work then responding to questions from the audience. The program, titled "Navigating Space for Women," took place at MoAD, San Francisco, within the context of the exhibition "Where Is Here" (curated by Jacqueline Francis and Kathy Zarur) and in celebration of International Women's Day, and was co-sponsored by MoAD and the Poetry Center. During March 2017, all Poetry Center programs were dedicated to the theme "Because We Come from Everything: Poetry and Migration," shared with 30+ organizations across the US engaged in the Poetry Coalition.
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The Poetry Center presents “Adjunct Action | Poets in Action,” a panel at the 2nd Annual Howard Zinn Book Fair, with poets, adjunct faculty members, and union organizers Jessica Beard, Hugh Behm-Steinberg, David Buuck, and Stephanie Young, co-chaired by Jessica Lawless (SEIU) and Sheila Tully (CFA). The panelists each read briefly and comment on short excerpts of poetry and prose, followed by conversation with Jessica Lawless and Sheila Tully. Event co-sponsored by The Poetry Center, SFSU Labor Archives and Research Center, Service Employees International Union (SEIU) Local 1021, and California Faculty Association (CFA) San Francisco.
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The Poetry Center presents Helen Adam reading from Ballads and other poems. This event also featured Jess, reading his poems and translations.
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The Poetry Center presents Helen Adam reading from her poetry, and songs from her ballad opera San Francisco's Burning.
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The Poetry Center presents Robert Adamson reading from The Goldfinches of Baghdad (Flood Editions, 2006) and Net Needle (Flood Editions, 2015). Adamson responds to questions from the audience and talks extensively about his adolescent incarceration and discovery of poetry while in prison.
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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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The Poetry Center presents Charles Alexander and Susan Thackrey reading and in conversation. Alexander reads from Pushing Water (Cuneiform Press, 2011) and unpublished work. Thackrey reads from Andalusia (Chax Press, 2015). The readings are followed by a conversation in response to questions from the audience.
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The Poetry Center presents James Baldwin, speaking and in discussion with Philip Roth and John Cheever, the final event of a three-day Esquire Symposium on "Writers and Writing in America Today."
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The Poetry Center presents George Barker reading from his poetry.
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The Poetry Center and The Green Arcade present a tribute to Franco Beltrametti (1937-1995), incorporating a screening of Claudio Tettamanti's short film "Ultime cose (d’après CHOSES qui voyagent)” (1995). Stefan Hyner, Duncan McNaughton, Joanne Kyger, Donald Guravich, Judy Goldhaft, Maggie Brown, and Jim Nesbit read from Beltrametti's Almost Everywhere: Selected Poems 1965-1995 (Fondazione Franco Beltrametti/Blackberry Books, 2016), and from Beltrametti's 1971 novel Nadamas, and comment on the late poet-artist and his work.
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The Poetry Center and The Green Arcade co-present a tribute to Bill Berkson (1939–2016), hosted by McRoskey Mattress Co. Thirty poets, artists, and friends of Bill Berkson come together to reminisce and read poems and prose, from, among others of Berkson’s books, Lush Life (Z Press, 1984), Blue is the Hero (L Publications, 1976), Repeat After Me (with John Zurier, paintings, Gallery Paule Anglim, 2011), Portrait and Dream: New and Selected Poems (Coffee House Press, 2009), Our Friends Will Pass Among You Silently (The Owl Press, 2007), What’s Your Idea of a Good Time? Interviews and Letters 1977–1985 (with Bernadette Mayer, Tuumba Press, 2006), The Sweet Singer of Modernism & Other Art Writings 1985–2003 (Qua Books, 2004), Sudden Address: Selected Lectures 1981–2006 (Cuneiform Press, 2007), and For the Ordinary Artist: Short Reviews, Occasional Pieces and More (BlazeVox, 2010), as well as from the festshrift volume For Bill, Anything (Pressed Wafer, 2015). The program incorporates "School of Poets," a short video featuring Bill Berkson interviewed at his home, commissioned by Kenward Elmslie and appearing here courtesy of Citizen Film.
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The Poetry Center and False Starts co-present Bill Berkson and Duncan McNaughton, reading from recent work at The Lab, San Francisco. Berkson reads recent work, including poems from Expect Delays (Coffee House Press, 2014). Duncan McNaughton reads recent work, including poems from Tiny Windows (Auguste Press, 2014). The event was co-sponsored by The Poetry Center and False Starts reading series at The Lab. Note: audio only, from a videorecording, courtesy of The Lab.
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The Poetry Center presents Duncan McNaughton, reading from Tiny Windows (Auguste Press, 2014), among other work, and Bill Berkson, reading from earlier poems and then from Expect Delays (Coffee House Press, 2014), followed by the two poets conversing and responding to questions from the audience.
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The Poetry Center and the UC Berkeley Department of English co-present this celebration of the publication of Lucia Berlin's A Manual for Cleaning Women: Selected Stories by Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2015, with readings of her work by her friends and fellow writers Stephen Emerson, Gloria Frym, August Kleinzahler, and Mimi Pond at the Maud Fife Room in Wheeler Hall, UC Berkeley.
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The Poetry Center presents Oscar Bermeo and Barbara Jane Reyes reading and in conversation. Bermeo reads unpublished work. Reyes reads new unpublished work, and from her books For the City That Nearly Broke Me (Aztlan Libre Press, 2012), Diwata (BOA Editions, 2010), and To Love as Aswan (PAWA, Inc. Publications, 2015). Following her reading, Kuwentuhan (Talkstory), a short film produced by San Francisco State University’s Documentary Film Institute and edited by Daewon Kim is screened, with the film incorporating a reading by Reyes of Joy Harjo's poem "Perhaps The World Ends Here." Kuwentuhan (Talkstory) is a project of the Poetry Center and Barbara Jane Reyes, supported by the Creative Work Fund. The film is followed by a conversation between the poets and the audience.
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The Poetry Center presents the third event of the Kuwentuhan (Talkstory) project, featuring readings by Arlene Biala, Urayoan Noel, and Aimee Suzara, at the Bayanahan Community Center in San Francisco. Kuwentuhan (Talkstory), a project of The Poetry Center and Barbara Jane Reyes, is supported by the Creative Work Fund.
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The Poetry Center presents Robin Blaser, reading from his own poetry and the works of his late friend and fellow poet Jack Spicer.
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The Poetry Center presents Julia Bloch and erica lewis reading and in conversation. Bloch reads from her book Valley Fever (Sidebrow Books, 2015) and her forthcoming chapbook Like Fur (Essay Press, 2016). erica lewis reads from her book daryl hall is my boyfriend (Barrelhouse Books, 2015) and her forthcoming book mary wants to be a superwoman (Third Man Books, 2017). Their readings are followed by a conversation in response to questions from the audience.
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The Poetry Center presents Robert Bly, reading from his original poetry, subsequently published in his first book, Silence in the Snowy Fields (1962), and three translations of poems by Georg Trakl, César Vallejo, and Antonio Machado.
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The Poetry Center presents poets Katy Bohinc, reading from Dear Alain (Tender Buttons Press, 2014) and Paul Ebenkamp reading from The Louder the Room the Darker the Screen (Timeless, Infinite Light, 2015) and poems in manuscript, followed by a conversation between the poets and questions from the audience.
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The Poetry Center presents Ebbe Borregaard and George Stanley reading from their early poetry.
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The Poetry Center presents Bengali poet Buddhadeva Bose reading poetry in English translation from among other works his 1958 book Je-Aandhar Aalor Adhik, or A Darkness Greater Than Light, including at least two poems ("To Memory" and "To a Dog") translated in collaboration with George Oppen. Note: A substantially revised version of Bose's "To Memory" was included in Oppen's 1962 book The Materials; cf. Pat Clifford on Oppen and Bose, at Jacket 36.
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The Poetry Center and Bird & Beckett Books & Records co-present musicians David Boyce (tenor saxophone), Hafez Modirzadeh (soprano saxophone), and Marshall Trammell (drums and percussion) in performance at Bird & Beckett Books & Records, San Francisco. The event, titled "Arcana Boil," also features poets Linda Norton, Brian Lucas, and Rod Roland, with Nicholas Whittington and Steve Dickison reading works by the late David Meltzer, as a celebration of the "Shuffle Boil" special edition of Whittington's magazine Amerarcana, guest-edited by Meltzer and Dickison. Each of the musicians and poets were contributors to the magazine. During March 2017, all Poetry Center programs were dedicated to the theme "Because We Come from Everything: Poetry and Migration," shared with 30+ organizations across the US engaged in the Poetry Coalition.
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The Poetry Center presents Bruce Boyd, Saul White, and Stuart Z. Perkoff reading from their poetry.
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The Poetry Center presents Kay Boyle, at the time on the San Francisco State University faculty in English, reading from her 1962 Collected Poems (Knopf).
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The Poetry Center presents Richard Brautigan and Floyd Salas, reading from their own works.
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The Poetry Center presents David Brazil, Rebecca Eland, Sara Larsen, and Andrew Schelling reading and in conversation. David Brazil reads "Tombstone Blues," Rebecca Eland reads from Arrives, then Steady Pace with the Hour (Plein Air Editions, 2016), Sara Larsen reads from Merry Hell (Atelos, 2016), and Andrew Schelling reads a mixture of published and unpublished works. The readings are followed by a conversation with the audience.
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The Poetry Center presents a performance of two plays by James Broughton, Mother, Reality & Happiness and The Last Word, or What to Say About It, performed at the Six Gallery.
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The Poetry Center presents James Broughton reading from his poetry and songs, with a performance by singer Anna Carol Dudley.
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The Poetry Center presents James Broughton reading his poems with Joel Andrews performing instrumental accompaniment on harp, in a performance contemporary with their 1965 LP The Bard & The Harper.
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The Poetry Center presents Bill Brown reading from his novel, The Way to the Uncle Sam Hotel and James Koller reading from a novel, Shannon Who Was Lost Before, and poems
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The Poetry Center presents Lee Ann Brown and Rod Smith reading and in conversation. Lee Ann Brown reads new work as well as poems from her book In the Laurels, Caught (Fence Books, 2013). Rod Smith reads from his book Touché (Wave Books, 2015) as well as from unpublished work. The readings are followed by a conversation with the audience.
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The Poetry Center and the SFSU Labor Archives and Research Center co-present "Working with Others: Convivial Research (Revisited)," a panel with Manuel (Manolo) Callahan, Stefano Harney, and Tonika Sealy Thompson, moderated by Steve Dickison, at the third annual Howard Zinn Book Fair, at City College of San Francisco, Mission Campus. Note: the recording begins in medias res.
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The Poetry Center in conjunction with the Flor y Canto Festival presents a bilingual reading by Ernesto Cardenal. As featured guest artist for the Flor y Canto Festival, the celebrated Nicaraguan poet-priest makes a rare Bay Area appearance, at the Brava Theater in San Francisco's Mission District, to read from his 1989 volume Cánto Cósmico [Cosmic Canticle, translated by John Lyons, Curstone Books, 2002] and from later poems that appear in his English-language volume of 90 new poems, The Origin of Species and Other Poems (Texas Tech University Press, 2011), also translated by John Lyons.
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The Poetry Center presents Janice A. Lowe performing her songs written to the poems from her book Leaving Cle: Poems of Nomadic Dispersal (Miami University Press, 2016), accompanied by Yohann Potico on bass and Kevin Carnes on drums.
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The Poetry Center and Small Press Traffic co-present poets and translators published in the first two years of the Señal chapbook series (a copublication of BOMB Magazine, Libros Antena Books, and Ugly Duckling Presse, 2015–16), with a bilingual reading in Spanish and English. Stalina Emmanuella Villarreal reads from Sor Juana Inéz de la Cruz, Enigmas. Luis Felipe Fabre (Mexico) and John Pluecker read from Sor Juana y otros monstruos (Sor Juana & Other Monsters). Pablo Katchadjian (Argentina) and Rebekah Smith read from el cam del alch (the rou of alch). Florencia Castellano (Argentina) and Alexis Almeida read from Propiedades vigiladas (Monitored Properties). The readings are followed by a playful, multi-voiced, bilingual conversation with the audience.
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The Poetry Center presents Spanish poet Luis Cernuda reading a selection of his poems in the original Spanish; a speaker follows each poem with an English translation. Cernuda also discusses the literary and social influences that produced each poem, such as Surrealism, the Spanish Civil War, and his exile from Spain. Note: from August 1961-June 1962, Cernuda was giving courses at San Francisco State College.
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The Poetry Center presents Mg Roberts and Geneva Chao reading and in conversation. Mg Roberts reads from not so, sea (Durga Press, 2014) as well as from her forthcoming book Anemal Uter Meck (forthcoming from Black Radish Books, 2017). Geneva Chao reads from One of Us is Wave One of Us is Shore (Otis Books, 2016) and Hilary is Dreaming (Make Now Books, 2016). The readings are followed by a conversation with the audience.
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The Poetry Center presents Tom Clark reading and commenting on his poetry, from various works and from manuscript, and Vincent Katz reading from Swimming Home (Nightboat Books, 2015) and his translations of The Complete Elegies of Sextus Propertius (Princeton University Press, 2004), among other work, at The Green Arcade bookshop in San Francisco.
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Shortly following the 1968 release of his book Soul on Ice, and during a time of civil unrest and riots in more than 100 U.S. cities, the assassinations of Martin Luther King, Jr. and Senator Robert F. Kennedy, and rioting at the Chicago Democratic National Convention in August 1968, Eldridge Cleaver addresses a crowd from the San Francisco State speaker’s platform. Note: Cleaver's address preceded by one month the San Francisco State Student Strike (November 6, 1968-March 20, 1969).
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The Poetry Center presents Jess reading from his poetry and translations. This event also featured poet Helen Adam.
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The Poetry Center presents Gregory Corso reading from his early poetry.
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The Poetry Center presents Henri Coulette reading early excerpts from The War of the Secret Agents, The Attic, and other poems and epigrams, and Ruth Weiss reading from her book Blue in Green among other work.
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The Poetry Center presents Robert Creeley reading from his early books of poetry.
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The Poetry Center presents Robert Creeley reading from his poetry.
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The Poetry Center presents Robert Creeley reading poems from his book Words, as well as a long prose piece titled The Lovers.
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The Poetry Center presents Stacy Szymaszek reading from Hart Island (Nightboat Books, 2015) and Peter Culley reading from Hammertown (New Star Books, 2013) and The Age of Briggs and Stratton (New Star Books, 2008), followed by the poets taking questions from the audience.
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The Poetry Center presents poets Peter Culley, reading from a recent collaborative work done with Elisa Ferrari, then from Parkway, from his Hammertown trilogy (New Star Books, 2003–2013), and Stacy Szymaszek, reading from Hart Island (Nightboat Books, 2015) and from the manuscript to a work subsequently titled Journal of Ugly Sites and Other Journals, which would be awarded the Ottoline Prize and published in 2016 by Fence Books.
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The Poetry Center presents Donald Davie and Thom Gunn reading from their poetry.
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The Poetry Center presents Guy Davis, Shirley Kaufman and Daniel Moore reading their poetry, in the Poetry Center's 1963 "New Poet" series.
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The Poetry Center presents Lynn Lonidier and Bill Deemer reading from their works.
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The Poetry Center presents Carolina De Robertis and Micah Perks reading and in conversation. Carolina De Robertis reads her poem "Para Orlando" ("For Orlando") and from The Gods of Tango (Vintage Books, 2015). Micah Perks reads from her novel What Becomes Us (Outpost19, 2016). The readings are followed by a conversation with the audience.
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The Poetry Center presents Prageeta Sharma reading from Undergloom (Fence Books, 2013), from previously published works, and from manuscript. Thomas Devaney reads from Calamity Jane (Furniture Press, 2014), Runaway Goat Cart (Hanging Loose Press, 2015), and other work. The readings are followed by a conversation between the poets and their audience.
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The Poetry Center presents poet-scholars Robert Dewhurst and Michael Seth Stewart reading from and discussing the works of poet John Wieners (1934–2002). The program includes a screening of the outtakes from Richard O. Moore's 1965 "USA: Poetry" public television documentary featuring John Wieners in San Francisco along with Robert Duncan.
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The Poetry Center presents Diane di Prima, accompanied by musician John Braden, reading from plays and poems.
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The Poetry Center presents Orlando White, recipient of the Poetry Center Book Award for LETTERRS (Nightboat Books, 2015). White reads with award judge Patrick James Dunagan, who reads from Drops of Rain / Drops of Wine (Spuyten Duyvil, 2016) and Book of Kings (Bird & Beckett Books, 2015). The poets' readings are followed by an extensive conversation with the audience focused on questions of poetics.
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The Poetry Center presents Robert Duncan reading from his poetry and a play.
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The Poetry Center presents Robert Duncan reading his poetry from and discussing his book The Opening of the Field (1960).
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The Poetry Center presents Richard Eberhart reading his poetry.
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The Poetry Center presents Tongo Eisen-Martin performing works from his book Someone's Dead Already (Bootstrap Press, 2015) along with new work which has appeared at SFMOMA's Open Space, and Jasmine Gibson reading from her chapbook Drapetomania (Commune Editions, 2016) and other unpublished works. Their readings are followed by a conversation between the poets and with the audience.
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The Poetry Center presents Clayton Eshleman, Robert Kelly, and Paul Blackburn reading from their works.
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The Poery Center presents Landis Everson reading from his early poetry. Note: This event also featured poet Eve Triem.
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The Poetry Center presents Brother Antoninus reading from his poetry.
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The Poetry Center presents Lawrence Ferlinghetti reading from his book A Coney Island of the Mind. This event also featured poet Philip Whalen.
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The Poetry Center presents Lawrence Ferlinghetti reading from his selected works.
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The Poetry Center presents Annie Finch in a solo reading from her books Eve (Carnegie Mellon University Press, 2010) and Spells: New and Selected Poems (Wesleyan University Press, 2013), and from works in manuscript, followed by her responding to questions from the audience.
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The Poetry Center, SFSU Fine Arts Gallery, and American Indian Studies at SFSU co-present Jennifer Elise Foerster, reading and in conversation with the audience. Foerster reads from Leaving Tulsa (University of Arizona Press, 2013) and new work. The event was held in conjunction with the exhibition When I Remember I See Red: California Contemporary Native American Art. The artworks in the background are from the 'Kinky Kachinas' series' by Mooshka (Kevin Cata).
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The Poetry Center presents David Buuck reading from Site Cite City (Futurepoem, 2015) and showing images related to his work "Buried Treasure Island," and Tonya Foster, reading from her book A Swarm of Bees in High Court (Belladonna, 2015) among other writings, followed by the two poets conversing with one another and responding to questions from the audience.
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The Poetry Center presents Kathleen Fraser and Jack Marshall reading their poems.
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The Poetry Center, in collaboration with California College of the Arts MFA-Writing Program, and Small Press Traffic, presents a tribute to Kathleen Fraser, in celebration of her 80th birthday. The program was organized and introduced by Susan Gevirtz and Stephen Motika. Fraser's publications include il cuore -- the heart: Selected Poems 1970-1995 (Wesleyan University, 1997,) Translating the Unspeakable: Poetry and the Innovative Necessity (University Alabama Press, 1999), Discrete Categories Forced into Coupling (Apogee Press, 2004), and movable TYYPE (Nightboat Books, 2011). Contributions to this tribute would subsequently be included in the festschrift anthology Dear Kathleen: On the Occasion of Kathleen Fraser's 80th Birthday, edited by Stephen Motika and Susan Gevirtz (Nightboat Books, 2017).
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The Poetry Center and San Francisco Public Library present Richard Eberhart delivering a memorial lecture on Robert Frost (1874-1973), addressing Frost's life and work.
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The Poetry Center presents Maw Shein Win, Carrie Hunter, Melissa Eleftherion, Aja Couchois Duncan, and Trevor Calvert reading from their contributions to The Poetry Center Chapbook Exchange, an online community for poets to share and collaborate through chapbooks, hosted by The Poetry Center. Their readings are followed by a conversation with the audience.