Prose at The Poetry Center
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)
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
The Poetry Center presents novelist-writer Darius James, and Val Jeanty, Haitian electronica composer-percussionist, in...
Date: 04/19/2019
The Poetry Center and City Lights Books co-present Darius James, reading and in conversation. James reads excerpts from...
Date: 04/21/2019
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 presents John Keene reading his story "Cold" from his book Counternarratives (New Directions,...
Date: 10/29/2015
The Poetry Center presents John Keene reading his story "Acrobatique" from his book Counternarratives (New...
Date: 10/30/2015
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 presents, as the inaugural program in its In Common Writers Series, Janice Lee, reading and in...
Date: 11/29/2018
The Poetry Center presents Brenda Iijima and Janice Lee, reading from new works. Brenda Iijima reads from unpublished...
Date: 12/01/2018
The Poetry Center and the Center for Iranian Diaspora Studies , San Francisco State University, co-present...
Date: 2020-12-03
The Poetry Center presents Lauren Levin and Melissa Mack, reading and in conversation. Melissa Mack, judge for the Poetry...
Date: 02/21/2019
The Poetry Center presents LaTasha N. Nevada Diggs and Rachel Levitsky, reading their work and engaging with...
Date: 2013-10-03
The Poetry Center presents Trisha Low performing pieces from The Compleat Purge (Kenning Editions, 2013) and Elaine Kahn...
Date: 03/17/2016
The Poetry Center presents Syd Staiti and Trisha Low, reading and in conversation. Staiti reads a selection of their...
Date: 2019-09-26
The Poetry Center presents John Marron, Harry Mathews, and Andrei Codrescu, presenting their works at San Francisco...
Date: 1975-04-24
The Poetry Center presents a reading by Donal McLaughlin, in a Prose at The Poetry Center event, introduced by Peter...
Date: 2014-11-20
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 ZZ Packer and Angela Pneuman for a Prose at The Poetry Center event. Packer, at the time on...
Date: 2014-04-10
The Poetry Center presents Grace Paley and Tillie Olsen, each reading from their fiction. Paley, for her first ever...
Date: 1977-03-09
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 Ishmael Reed and Stan Rice, reading from their contemporary works, in this early black &...
Date: 1973-10-04
The Poetry Center presents Cristina Rivera Garza and Kit Schluter, reading and in conversation. Schluter reads three...
Date: 2021-03-04
The Poetry Center presents Richard Brautigan and Floyd Salas, reading from their own works.
Date: 02/28/1968
The Poetry Center, in collaboration with Radar Productions and the SFSU Department of Women and Gender Studies, presents...
Date: 04/07/2016
The Poetry Center presents Brandon Shimoda and Aisuke Kondo, featuring a reading, an art presentation, and conversation....
Date: 03/07/2019
The Poetry Center presents David Swallow Jr., Lakota spiritual teacher and veteran AIM (American Indian Movement)...
Date: 2022-02-04
The Poetry Center presents Alice Walker, talking about the life and work of Zora Neale Hurston and reading from...
Date: 1980-10-02
The Poetry Center presents Jackie Wang and Lily Hoang reading at The Green Arcade. This event, debuting Jackie...
Date: 03/03/2018
The Poetry Center presents Frank B. Wilderson III reading from the manuscript to his forthcoming book, provisionally...
Date: 02/14/2019
The Poetry Center presents Angel Dominguez and Ronaldo V. Wilson, in conversation with one another then followed by each...
Date: 2021-10-16
The Poetry Center presents Monique Wittig and Jayne Cortez, reading their work on the opening night of the three-day...
Date: 1985-04-12
The Poetry Center and City Lights Books co-present an evening devoted to the history presented in Steve...
Date: 2014-10-15