Poetry Center Book Award
The Poetry Center Book Award has been presented annually since 1980 by The Poetry Center, San Francisco State University, to a single outstanding book of poetry published in the prior year. Watch video, from recent years, of readings by award winners and judges: Lynn Xu + Jacob Kahn • Michael Kleber-Diggs + Cynthia Parker Ohene • Kiki Petrosino + Tongo Eisen-Martin • jayy dodd + Lourdes Figueroa • Ashley Toliver + Jason Bayani • Lauren Levin + Melissa Mack • Bao Phi + Sarah Menefee • Orlando White (more)
The Poetry Center presents Lynn Xu and Jacob Kahn, reading their work and engaging in conversation with one another and...
Date: 2024-05-02
The Poetry Center presents Michael Kleber-Diggs and Cynthia Parker-Ohene, each reading from their recent books of poetry....
Date: 2023-11-16
The Poetry Center presents Kiki Petrosino, whose book of poetry White Blood: A Lyric of Virginia...
Date: 2022-12-01
The Poetry Center presents jayy dodd, whose book The Black Condition ft. Narcissus (Nightboat Books,...
Date: 2021-10-28
The Poetry Center presents a reading by Ashley Toliver, Poetry Center Book Award-winner for her book of poems, ...
Date: 2020-09-17
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 Poetry Center Book Award winner Bao Phi, reading and in conversation with award judge Sarah...
Date: 2019-11-14
The Poetry Center presents Orlando White, recipient of the Poetry Center Book Award for LETTERRS (Nightboat Books, 2015)....
Date: 04/27/2017
The Poetry Center presents Hollie Hardy reading from her Poetry Center Book Award winning volume How to Take a Bullet and...
Date: 05/05/2016
The Poetry Center presents Alli Warren reading from her Poetry Center Book Award winning book, Here Come the Warm Jets...
Date: 05/19/2015
The Poetry Center presents a solo reading by Stephen Ratcliffe, who received the Poetry Center Book Award for his...
Date: 2014-10-02