Alpha Index: Abdrahman to Dungy
Alphabetical index of programs by author surname, subject surname, or program title, A–D. • Index photo: Stefano Harney, Tonika Sealey Thompson, Manolo Callahan, December 4, 2016 (video still).
The Poetry Center and the Museum of the African Diaspora co-present artist Asya Abdrahman and writers Faith Adiele and...
Date: 03/08/2017
The Poetry Center presents Helen Adam reading from Ballads and other poems. This event also featured Jess, reading his...
Date: 04/07/1957
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 Robert Adamson reading from The Goldfinches of Baghdad (Flood Editions, 2006) and Net Needle...
Date: 03/05/2015
The Poetry Center presents Joanne Kyger and Australian poet Robert Adamson, reading primarily from new works:...
Date: 03/06/2015
The Poetry Center presents “Adjunct Action | Poets in Action,” a panel at the 2nd Annual Howard Zinn Book...
Date: 11/15/2015
The Poetry Center presents Ai, reading poetry from her book Cruelty, published by Houghton Mifflin in 1973, and from as...
Date: 11/14/1974
The Poetry Center presents James Cagney and Josiah Luis Alderete, reading and in conversation. Cagney reads new poetry,...
Date: 2020-02-06
The Poetry Center presents Charles Alexander and Susan Thackrey reading and in conversation. Alexander reads from Pushing...
Date: 02/02/2017
The Poetry Center presents Maya Angelou, reading and commenting on her poems from the book Just Give Me a Cool Drink of...
Date: 10/14/1971
For the second event in The Poetry Center's premier Tripwire Cross-Cultural Poetics Series, we present Antena, a...
Date: 09/27/2018
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 George Barker reading from his poetry.
Date: 10/21/1959
The Poetry Center presents Denise Leto and Jennifer Bartlett, reading at The Green Arcade, San Francisco. Leto, with Rose...
Date: 2020-02-21
The Poetry Center presents Amy Berkowitz and Caren Beilin, reading and in conversation. Berkowitz reads from her...
Date: 2019-10-17
The Poetry Center presents Amy Berkowitz and Caren Beilin, reading at E.M. Wolfman Bookstore in Oakland, CA. Jacob Kahn...
Date: 2019-10-18
The Poetry Center and The Green Arcade present a tribute to Franco Beltrametti (1937-1995), incorporating a screening of...
Date: 04/29/2016
The Poetry Center and False Starts co-present Bill Berkson and Duncan McNaughton, reading from recent work at The Lab,...
Date: 02/24/2015
The Poetry Center presents Duncan McNaughton, reading from Tiny Windows (Auguste Press, 2014), among other work, and Bill...
Date: 02/26/2015
The Poetry Center and The Green Arcade co-present a tribute to Bill Berkson (1939–2016), hosted by McRoskey...
Date: 09/24/2016
The Poetry Center and the UC Berkeley Department of English co-present this celebration of the publication of Lucia...
Date: 10/07/2015
The Poetry Center presents Oscar Bermeo and Barbara Jane Reyes reading and in conversation. Bermeo reads unpublished...
Date: 12/01/2016
In celebration of Kelsey Street Press's 45 th Anniversary, The Poetry Center, together with Kelsey Street Press and...
Date: 2019-12-13
The Poetry Center presents the third event of the Kuwentuhan (Talkstory) project, featuring readings by Arlene Biala,...
Date: 04/22/2016
The Poetry Center presents The Black Aesthetic, including curatorial members Jamal Batts, Ryanaustin Dennis, and Leila...
Date: 04/26/2018
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 Julia Bloch and erica lewis reading and in conversation. Bloch reads from her book Valley...
Date: 10/06/2016
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 poets Katy Bohinc, reading from Dear Alain (Tender Buttons Press, 2014) and Paul Ebenkamp...
Date: 10/01/2015
The Poetry Center presents Ebbe Borregaard and George Stanley reading from their early poetry.
Date: 03/15/1958
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 and Bird & Beckett Books & Records co-present musicians David Boyce (tenor saxophone), Hafez...
Date: 03/16/2017
The Poetry Center presents Bruce Boyd, Saul White, and Stuart Z. Perkoff reading from their poetry.
Date: 03/30/1958
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 Garrett Caples and Julian Talamantez Brolaski reading and in conversation. Garrett Caples...
Date: 02/15/2018
The Poetry Center presents Gwendolyn Brooks, reading at Wheeler Hall, the University of California, Berkeley, at an event...
Date: 04/21/1997
The Poetry Center presents a performance of two plays by James Broughton, Mother, Reality & Happiness and The Last...
Date: 05/23/57
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 Lee Ann Brown and Rod Smith reading and in conversation. Lee Ann Brown reads new work as well...
Date: 10/20/2016
The Poetry Center and the SFSU Labor Archives and Research Center co-present "Working with Others: Convivial...
Date: 12/04/2016
The Poetry Center presents Giancarlo Huapaya (with translator Ryan Greene), Omar Pimienta, and José Antonio...
Date: 2019-11-07
The Poetry Center presents Giancarlo Huapaya, Omar Pimienta, and José Antonio Villarán, along with members...
Date: 2019-11-08
The Poetry Center in conjunction with the Flor y Canto Festival presents a bilingual reading by Ernesto Cardenal. As...
Date: 05/16/2015
The Poetry Center presents R.O Kwon and Nona Caspers, reading and in conversation. Nona Caspers introduces then reads...
Date: 03/20/2019
The Poetry Center and Small Press Traffic co-present poets and translators published in the first two years of the...
Date: 10/09/2016
The Poetry Center and City Lights Books co-present Pierre Joris, reading his translations and discussing the work and...
Date: 03/18/2015
The Poetry Center presents Spanish poet Luis Cernuda reading a selection of his poems in the original Spanish; a speaker...
Date: 12/06/1961
The Poetry Center presents May-lee Chai and Junse Kim, reading and in conversation. May-lee Chai reads excerpts from her...
Date: 11/08/2018
The Poetry Center presents Mg Roberts and Geneva Chao reading and in conversation. Mg Roberts reads from not so, sea...
Date: 10/27/2016
The Poetry Center presents MK Chavez and Heather June Gibbons, in reading and conversation. MK Chavez reads from her...
Date: 09/20/2018
The Poetry Center presents Jim Dunn and Neeli Cherkovski, reading and in conversation. Dunn reads his poems from...
Date: 2019-09-05
The Poetry Center presents Tom Clark reading and commenting on his poetry, from various works and from manuscript, and...
Date: 02/05/2016
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 Lucille Clifton, reading at the San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery. Clifton reads and...
Date: 04/02/1987
The Poetry Center presents Wanda Coleman reading from her book of poems, Mad Dog Black Lady (Black Sparrow Press,1979).
Date: 10/14/1982
The Poetry Center presents Wanda Coleman, performing her poetry as part of the Women Working in Literature Conference, at...
Date: 04/14/1985
The Poetry Center presents Wanda Coleman, recipient of the 2011 Poetry Center Book Award, for The World Falls Away...
Date: 04/04/2013
The Poetry Center presents Jess reading from his poetry and translations. This event also featured poet Helen Adam.
Date: 04/07/1957
The Poetry Center presents Dennis Cooper and Eileen Myles reading at McRoskey Mattress Co., San Francisco. Dennis Cooper...
Date: 10/15/2017
The Poetry Center presents Gregory Corso reading from his early poetry.
Date: 10/21/1956
The Poetry Center presents Jayne Cortez [as part of a program shared with French novelist and feminist theorist Monique...
Date: 04/12/1985
The Poetry Center, in collaboration with giovanni singleton and Nocturnes Review, presents Jayne Cortez and LaTasha N....
Date: 10/30/2007
The Poetry Center presents Cosmic Diaspora and Steve Dalachinsky, reading and in performance. Cosmic Diaspora (Jake...
Date: 04/19/2018
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 from his early books of poetry.
Date: 05/20/1956
The Poetry Center presents Robert Creeley reading from his poetry.
Date: 07/16/1959
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 alex cruse and Kevin CK Lo (who collectively perform as Drought Spa) in performance and in...
Date: 11/09/2017
The Poetry Center presents Stacy Szymaszek reading from Hart Island (Nightboat Books, 2015) and Peter Culley reading from...
Date: 04/02/2015
The Poetry Center presents poets Peter Culley, reading from a recent collaborative work done with Elisa Ferrari, then...
Date: 04/03/2015
The Poetry Center presents Donald Davie and Thom Gunn reading from their poetry.
Date: 05/18/1958
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 Lynn Lonidier and Bill Deemer reading from their works.
Date: 10/19/1965
The Poetry Center presents "an afternoon of literary drag," with Spring 2019 Mazza Writer in Residence Juliana...
Date: 04/27/2019
The Poetry Center presents Spring 2019 Mazza Writer in Residence Juliana Delgado Lopera and Joseph Cassara, reading and...
Date: 05/02/19
The Poetry Center presents Carolina De Robertis and Micah Perks reading and in conversation. Carolina De Robertis reads...
Date: 11/03/2016
The Poetry Center presents Prageeta Sharma reading from Undergloom (Fence Books, 2013), from previously published works,...
Date: 05/07/2015
The Poetry Center presents poet-scholars Robert Dewhurst and Michael Seth Stewart reading from and discussing the works...
Date: 09/10/2015
The Poetry Center presents William Rowe and Helen Dimos reading and in conversation. William Rowe reads newer poems in...
Date: 10/26/2017
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 Keith Donnell Jr. and Antony Fangari reading and in conversation, at the Poetry Center reading...
Date: 2021-09-23
The Poetry Center presents Orlando White, recipient of the Poetry Center Book Award for LETTERRS (Nightboat Books, 2015)....
Date: 04/27/2017
The Poetry Center presents Robert Duncan reading from his poetry and a play.
Date: 10/10/1956
The Poetry Center presents Robert Duncan reading his poetry from and discussing his book The Opening of the Field (1960).
Date: 05/18/1959
The Poetry Center presents Dale M. Smith speaking on Robert Duncan and Charles Olson, reading briefly from his own...
Date: 02/08/2018
The Poetry Center presents Camille T. Dungy and Javier Zamora, reading and in conversation. Camille Dungy reads poems...
Date: 09/28/2017