Alpha Index: Nachtrieb to Rukeyser
Alphabetical index of programs by author surname, subject surname, or program title, N–R. • Index photo: Simon Ortiz, November 19, 1975, reading at San Francisco State, César Chavez Student Center (video still).
The Poetry Center presents playwright Peter Sinn Nachtrieb, with actors Esau Hamadanyan, Alexis Lezin, Amy Prosser, Kim...
Date: 2019-10-21
The Poetry Center presents Peter Sinn Nachtrieb, presenting a playwriting workshop and conversation. Nachtrieb speaks...
Date: 2019-10-24
The Poetry Center and the Diasporic Vietnamese Artists Network co-present Dao Strom and Vi Khi Nao, reading and in...
Date: 2021-02-24
The Poetry Center presents Nigerian novelist Okey Ndibe reading from and discussing his novel, Foreign Gods, Inc. (Soho...
Date: 02/12/2015
The Poetry Center presents Uche Nduka and Sophia Dahlin, reading and in conversation. Nduka reads from his...
Date: 2021-02-11
The Poetry Center presents poets Chris Nealon, visiting the Bay Area from Washington, D.C., on a program shared with...
Date: 2021-12-10
The Poetry Center presents poet and scholar Chris Nealon, delivering the 36th annual George Oppen Memorial...
Date: 2021-12-11
The Poetry Center's New Voice Series was initiated in Spring 2021 as an annual reading series that pairs a poet...
Date: 2021-05-05
The Poetry Center presents the New Voice Series, in its second annual iteration. The series features a poet...
Date: 2022-05-05
The Poetry Center co-presents a celebration of the Diasporic Vietnamese Artists Network (DVAN), held at Jack...
Date: 2020-03-03
The Poetry Center presents this landmark 1977 recording of a group reading by eight West Coast Asian American and Asian...
Date: 1977-05-16
For the concluding event in erica lewis's weeklong Mazza Writer in Residence program for Spring 2022,...
Date: 2022-03-12
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 Linda Norton and Fanny Howe, along with emcee Norma Cole. Norton reads from Wite Out: Love...
Date: 2021-02-17
The Poetry Center and False Starts at The Lab present Alice Notley reading Books One and Two of The Descent of Alette...
Date: 11/14/2016
The Poetry Center and False Starts at The Lab present Alice Notley reading Books Three and Four of The Descent of Alette...
Date: 11/15/2016
Co-presented by The Poetry Center and the Labor Archives and Research Center , Mark Nowak is joined by six poets...
Date: 2021-09-30
The Poetry Center, together with City Lights Books and The Green Arcade, present a 50th Anniversary reading of Frank...
Date: 02/06/2015
The Poetry Center presents Charles Olson reading from The Maximus Poems and other works.
Date: 02/21/1957
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 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
The Poetry Center presents Robert Duncan and George Oppen, reading from their poetry, in the very first video...
Date: 1973-02-22
The Poetry Center presents Roberto Tejada delivering the 31st annual George Oppen Memorial Lecture. Tejada focuses on the...
Date: 12/12/2015
The Poetry Center presents Frances Richard delivering the 32nd annual George Oppen Memorial Lecture, entitled "The...
Date: 12/17/2016
The Poetry Center presents the 33rd annual George Oppen Memorial Lecture featuring David B. Hobbs at the Unitarian...
Date: 12/02/2017
Tyrone Williams presents the 34th annual George Oppen Memorial Lecture, at the Unitarian Center, San Francisco. The...
Date: 2019-12-06
The Poetry Center presents Simon J. Ortiz, in this early reading of his work at San Francisco State University. Ortiz...
Date: 1975-11-19
The Poetry Center presents Michael Palmer and Ed Roberson, each offering recent poems in extended readings. They are...
Date: 2014-10-11
The Poetry Center presents Gregory Pardlo reading from his books Totem (Copper Canyon Press, 2007) and Digest (Four Way...
Date: 12/01/2015
The Poetry Center presents Maryam Ivette Parhizkar, reading and in conversation with Kenyatta A.C. Hinkle. Parhizkar...
Date: 03/14/2019
The Poetry Center presents Kenyatta A.C. Hinkle and Maryam Ivette Parhizkar, reading and in conversation. Maryam Ivette...
Date: 03/15/2019
The Poetry Center presents Morgan Parker and Charif Shanahan, reading and in conversation. Charif Shanahan reads poetry...
Date: 02/28/2019
The Poetry Center Presents Pat Parker and Audre Lorde reading at the Women's Building in San Francisco. Pat Parker...
Date: 02/07/1986
The Poetry Center, in conjunction with the Poetry Coalition , presents one in a series of programs organized across...
Date: 2020-11-05
The Poetry Center presents Kenneth Patchen reading from his poetry.
Date: 12/06/1957
The Poetry Center presents David Lau reading from his forthcoming book, Still Dirty (AK Press/Commune Editions, 2016),...
Date: 03/10/2016
The Poetry Center presents Bruce Boyd, Saul White, and Stuart Z. Perkoff reading from their poetry.
Date: 03/30/1958
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 Poetry Center Book Award winner Bao Phi, reading and in conversation with award judge Sarah...
Date: 2019-11-14
The Poetry Center, as the inaugural event in the Leslie Scalapino 21st Century Innovative Writers Series, presents M....
Date: 10/27/2018
The Poetry Center presents poet and translator Pierre Joris reading, primarily, from his collection Barzakh: Poems...
Date: 03/19/2015
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
Co-presented by The Poetry Center and the Center for Iranian Diaspora Studies , San Francisco State University,...
Date: 2020-12-03
The Poetry Center presents poet-translator-activists John Pluecker and Jen Hofer, reading and in conversation, to debut...
Date: 09/26/2018
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 Brontez Purnell and Tommy Pico, reading and in conversation. Brontez Purnell reads from Johnny...
Date: 09/13/2018
The Poetry Center presents Brontez Purnell, Mazza Writer in Residence for Spring 2021, in the first of two public...
Date: 2021-04-07
The Poetry Center presents Brontez Purnell and Bay Area friends Cisco Guzman, Mason J., and Melissa Merin,...
Date: 2021-04-08
The Poetry Center and the Labor Archives and Research Center present poet/artist/activists Cassie Thornton, Christian...
Date: 11/12/2015
The Poetry Center presents Maw Shein Win, Carrie Hunter, Melissa Eleftherion, Aja Couchois Duncan, and Trevor Calvert...
Date: 04/06/2017
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 Margaret Randall reading and in conversation. Randall speaks and reads from the anthology she...
Date: 03/30/2017
The Poetry Center Presents John Crowe Ransom reading a selection of poems
Date: 05/01/1963
The Poetry Center presents a solo reading by Stephen Ratcliffe, who received the Poetry Center Book Award for his...
Date: 2014-10-02
The Poetry Center presents Amarnath Ravva and giovanni singleton, each reading from their work, followed by a...
Date: 2014-12-04
The Poetry Center presents Daphne Marlatt, visiting from Vancouver, British Columbia, and Tom Raworth, from London, UK,...
Date: 1976-11-03
The Poetry Center presents the March 1956 Berkeley re-creation of the famed October 1955 Six Gallery reading, introduced...
Date: 03/11/1956
The Poetry Center presents Ishmael Reed and Stan Rice, reading from their contemporary works, in this early black &...
Date: 1973-10-04
The Poetry Center presents Kenneth Rexroth reading from his poetry and translations.
Date: 07/13/1955
The Poetry Center presents Kenneth Rexroth, reading from his poetry and playing recordings of French songs.
Date: 10/05/1959
The Poetry Center presents Kenneth Rexroth, reading translations as well his own selected works.
Date: 2/23/1965
The Poetry Center presents Oscar Bermeo and Barbara Jane Reyes reading and in conversation. Bermeo reads unpublished...
Date: 12/01/2016
The Poetry Center presents Charles Reznikoff, reading his poetry before an audience at San Francisco State University. He...
Date: 1974-03-21
The Poetry Center presents Adrienne Rich, in this rare early color-video recording. Rich, in a solo feature program,...
Date: 1974-04-25
The Poetry Center presents Saretta Morgan, Nathalie Khankan, and Sarah Riggs, reading and in conversation, at Medicine...
Date: 2022-03-18
The Poetry Center is honored to welcome Denise Riley, in a rare online appearance, and Jennifer Soong. Joining us,...
Date: 2021-03-20
The Poetry Center presents Cristina Rivera Garza and Kit Schluter, reading and in conversation. Schluter reads three...
Date: 2021-03-04
The Poetry Center, in conjunction with the Poetry Coalition , presents one in a series of programs organized across...
Date: 2021-04-17
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 a memorial tribute to Stephen Rodefer (1940–2015), with reminiscences and poems, mostly...
Date: 11/21/2015
Theodore Roethke reading from his poetry, for the Poetry Center's inaugural reading.
Date: 02/25/1954
The Poetry Center presents Martha Ronk and Paul Vangelisti, reading and in conversation. Martha Ronk reads poems on the...
Date: 09/14/2017
The Poetry Center presents Audre Lorde Creative Writing Award-winner Elizabeth Rosas and Award-finalists Samantha...
Date: 2020-09-10
The Poetry Center presents David Meltzer and Jerome Rothenberg, reading together in what host Lewis MacAdams describes as...
Date: 1975-12-03
The Poetry Center presents Jerome Rothenberg, reading and in conversation. Rothenberg reads works from several of his...
Date: 11/14/2017
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 renowned Chilean poet Raúl Zurita, together with poet, scholar of Latin American...
Date: 2009-04-09
The Poetry Center, together with The Green Arcade, presents Camille Roy, reading from Honey Mine: Collected Stories...
Date: 2021-10-22
The Poetry Center presents Muriel Rukeyser reading from her poetry.
Date: 07/28/1955
The Poetry Center presents Muriel Rukeyser reading from her poetry and translations of Octavio Paz.
Date: 07/16/1958
For this Prose at The Poetry Center event, three friends and SF State alums: Matthew Clark Davison, Stacy D. Flood,...
Date: 2022-02-24