Prose at The Poetry Center
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Novelists, short-story writers, essayists and memoirists, artists and theorists, historians, and storytellers: from James Baldwin in 1960 on the art of the novelist, to Joan Didion's first public reading; Kathy Acker reading from manuscript in 1977; Jackie Wang debuting Carceral Capitalism with story-writer Lily Huoang; Frank Wilderson previewing his memoir Afropessimism a year before publication; radical historian Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz with friends; Lakota Sun Dance Chief David Swallow Jr. with Hafez Modirzadeh; and World War II Conscientious Objectors at City Light Bookstore. (Programs (more)
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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 Kathy Acker, accompanied in her presentation by Rae Armantrout and Kit Robinson, and Jim...
Date: 1977-02-09
The Poetry Center, in conjunction with the Tripwire Cross-Cultural Poetics Series, presents a Memorial Tribute to Etel...
Date: 2022-05-14
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 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 presents Lucia Berlin and Douglas Woolf, each reading from their work, with introductions by...
Date: 1984-02-24
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 The Black Aesthetic, including curatorial members Jamal Batts, Ryanaustin Dennis, and Leila...
Date: 04/26/2018
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, in collaboration with Gay Sunshine , co-presents John Giorno and William S. Burroughs, each reading...
Date: 1974-11-04
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 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 Dennis Cooper and Eileen Myles reading at McRoskey Mattress Co., San Francisco. Dennis Cooper...
Date: 10/15/2017
The Poetry Center presents a reading and conversation from Lucy Corin and Lance Olsen, for a Prose at the Poetry Center...
Date: 2014-09-25
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 Robert Creeley reading poems from his book Words, as well as a long prose piece titled The...
Date: 03/16/1966
For this Prose at The Poetry Center event, three friends and SF State alums: Matthew Clark Davison, Stacy D. Flood,...
Date: 2022-02-24
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 Joan Didion, in what was her first ever public reading. Celebrated prose-stylist, journalist,...
Date: 1977-02-23
The Poetry Center presents three outstanding Bay Area writer-activists, reading and in conversation on the radical...
Date: 2021-09-10
The Poetry Center presents novelist Ernest J. Gaines, reading from an early typescript of his subsequent novel In My...
Date: 1974-03-06
The Poetry Center presents Robert Glück, reading from his poems and other early work, including passages related to...
Date: 1975-04-03
The Poetry Center presents Ariel Goldberg and Simone White reading and in conversation in celebration of the 50th...
Date: 04/13/2017
The Poetry Center presents Judy Grahn, reading from her memoir, A Simple Revolution (Aunt Lute Books, 2012)...
Date: 2014-02-20
After an introduction by their friend and comrade Manolo Callahan, of the Center for Convivial Research and Autonomy ,...
Date: 2022-04-06
The Poetry Center presents Anselm Hollo and Robert Harris, reading from their work at San Francisco State University....
Date: 1977-02-16
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 Tim Z. Hernandez, reading and in conversation with Marguerite Muñoz and René...
Date: 05/09/2019
The Poetry Center presents Jackie Wang and Lily Hoang, reading and in conversation. This event is one of many programs...
Date: 03/01/2018
The Poetry Center presents a reading by Maia Ipp and Michael David Lukas at Medicine for Nightmares. Maia Ipp reads an...
Date: 2024-04-02
The Poetry Center presents Darius James and Val Jeanty in a first-ever collaboratiive "workshop performance" at...
Date: 04/18/19