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 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 Brenda Iijima reads from unpublished...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
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 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, together with The Green Arcade, presents Camille Roy, reading from Honey Mine: Collected Stories...
Date: 2021-10-22
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 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 three outstanding Bay Area writer-activists, reading and in conversation on the radical...
Date: 2021-09-10
The Poetry Center presents David Swallow Jr., Lakota spiritual teacher and veteran AIM (American Indian Movement)...
Date: 2022-02-04
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 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