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 Monique Wittig and Jayne Cortez, reading their work on the opening night of the three-day...
Date: 1985-04-12
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 City Lights Books co-present an evening devoted to the history presented in Steve...
Date: 2014-10-15