Poetry Center Archive Goes Live!
Historic video recordings (with downloadable audio) from The Poetry Center's first decade of video documentation. We'll post rare video from the 1970s and 1980s, thanks to digital transfers by BAVC via its Preservation Access Program. Gratitude to Marshall Trammell, Music Research Strategies, for opening credits music and source video. Check in as more recordings from the historic collection get (more)
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 Nikki Giovanni, talking with the audience and reading from her poetry. Giovanni opens by...
Date: 1984-12-04
The Poetry Center, in collaboration with Associated Students Performing Arts, co-presents Amiri Baraka, reading his...
Date: 1984-10-23
The Poetry Center presents David Melnick, in what is apparently the only existing recording of the poet performing his...
Date: 1984-04-23
The Poetry Center presents Lucia Berlin and Douglas Woolf, each reading from their work, with introductions by...
Date: 1984-02-24
The Poetry Center presents Michael Ondaatje, visiting the Bay Area from his home in Toronto, Canada, in a reading at New...
Date: 1983-10-29
The Poetry Center presents Jackson Mac Low and Steve Benson, in collaborative performance. The program, as the second...
Date: 1983-03-10
The Poetry Center presents poets Q. R. Hand Jr., Genny Lim, and Juan Felipe Herrera, presenting their poetry at...
Date: 1983-02-24
The Poetry Center presents poet-activists Karen Brodine and Meridel Le Sueur. Brodine reads poems from her then-newly...
Date: 1981-11-05
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 presesnts a reading in celebration of Tin Tan magazine , featuring readings by contributing...
Date: 1978-10-25
The Poetry Center presents Margaret Atwood, in her first Bay Area appearance, visiting San Francisco State from...
Date: 1978-05-03
The Poetry Center presents a rare reading by Black Arts Movement poets K. Curtis Lyle, founding member of the Watts...
Date: 1977-11-16
The Poetry Center presents James Broughton and Helen Adam, presenting their poetry at a special reading held at the...
Date: 1977-11-02
The Poetry Center presents this landmark 1977 recording of a group reading by eight West Coast Asian American and Asian...
Date: 1977-05-16
The Poetry Center presents Marilyn Hacker and Charlotte Painter, reading from and commenting on their work. Hacker reads...
Date: 1977-05-04
The Poetry Center presents June Jordan reading her poetry, from the collection Things That I Do in the Dark: 1954-1977...
Date: 04/20/1977
The Poetry Center presents José Montoya, activist and co-founder (with Esteban Villa) of the Royal Chicano Air...
Date: 1977-04-13
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 Amiri Baraka, talking to students on revolution, political organizing, and the function...
Date: 1977-03-02
The Poetry Center, in collaboration with New College of California, presents Amiri Baraka, reading from his poetry and...
Date: 1977-03-02
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 Anselm Hollo and Robert Harris, reading from their work at San Francisco State University....
Date: 1977-02-16
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 present Sotère Torregian and William Everson, reading their poetry at San Francisco State...
Date: 1976-12-15
The Poetry Center presents Ntozake Shange, in a rare early recorded appearance, at the César Chavez Student Union...
Date: 1976-11-17
The Poetry Center presents Ted Greenwald and Al Robles, reading their work in succession for this New York–San...
Date: 19761110
The Poetry Center presents Daphne Marlatt, visiting from Vancouver, British Columbia, and Tom Raworth, from London, UK,...
Date: 1976-11-03
The Poetry Center presents Alta and Jack Collom, reading from their poetry in the San Francisco State University Student...
Date: 1076-10-10
"The Poetry Center is insanely pleased to present the brilliant word theoretician and poet, CLARK COOLIDGE, in...
Date: 1976-05-05
The Poetry Center presents Basil Bunting, reading Briggflatts, his most celebrated long poem, and, by...
Date: 1976-04-29
The Poetry Center, together with New College of California, co-present Edward Sanders and Edward Dorn, reading their work...
Date: 1976-04-28
The Poetry Center presents Mei-mei Berssenbrugge, in an early recorded solo reading of her poetry. Scheduled to...
Date: 1976-04-21
The Poetry Center presents Alice Walker, reading from her short prose and poetry, at the Conference on Inter-American...
Date: 1976-04-10
The Poetry Center presents Janine Pommy Vega and Jack Micheline, each reaading from their poetry, then together on stage...
Date: 1976-03-24
The Poetry Center presents Lorenzo Thomas and David Henderson, the latter performing with the band Ghetto Violence,...
Date: 1976-03-19
The Poetry Center presents Diane di Prima and Lenore Kandel, together on stage reading their work and engaging in...
Date: 1976-03-17
The Poetry Center presents Lawrence Ferlinghetti and Michael McClure, iconic poets of the Beat movement on the West...
Date: 1976-03-05
The Poetry Center presents Dick Gallup and Victor Hernández Cruz, reading from their poetry at San Francisco State...
Date: 1976-03-03
The Poetry Center presents Louise Glück and Kathleen Fraser, each reading their work then responding briefly to...
Date: 1976-02-25
The Poetry Center presents Alice Notley and Bill Bathurst, reading their poetry at San Francisco State University. Notley...
Date: 1976-02-18
The Poetry Center presents Gary Snyder, reading his poetry and sharing the stage dancers and musicians in a benefit...
Date: 1976-02-13
The Poetry Center presents Robin Blaser and Ebbe Borregaard, reading their work at the San Francisco State University...
Date: 1976-02-11
The Poetry Center presents Kay Boyle, reading from her poetry, as well as a short story. On the faculty of Creative...
Date: 1975-12-10
The Poetry Center presents David Meltzer and Jerome Rothenberg, reading together in what host Lewis MacAdams describes as...
Date: 1975-12-03
The Poetry Center presents Simon J. Ortiz, in this early reading of his work at San Francisco State University. Ortiz...
Date: 1975-11-19
The Poetry Center presents Jackson Mac Low presenting a variety of his works. The poet plays a magnetic-tape collage,...
Date: 1975-11-05
The Poetry Center presents Jessica Hagedorn and the West Coast Gangster Choir, in this historic mid-1970s video...
Date: 1975-10-30
The Poetry Center presents Carolee Sanchez and Lawson Inada, reading from their poetry in the César Chavez Center...
Date: 1975-10-15
The Poetry Center presents Geoffrey Young, Stephen Rodefer, and Larry Goodell, in that sequence, reading and,...
Date: 1975-05-08
The Poetry Center presents Leslie Scalapino, David Hoag, and Summer Brenner, each poet reading their work in this early...
Date: 1975-05-01
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 Robert Glück, reading from his poems and other early work, including passages related to...
Date: 1975-04-03
The Poetry Center presents Keith Abbott, Ted Berrigan, and Kenward Elmslie, reading from their respective work, at San...
Date: 1975-03-6
The Poetry Center present Madeline Gleason, Rosalie Moore, and Maxine Kumin, reading their poetry. The reading takes...
Date: 1974-12-11
The Poetry Center presents Thom Gunn, Joanne Kyger, and Nathaniel Tarn, each presenting substantial readings of what was...
Date: 1974-11-20
The Poetry Center presents Ai and Faye Kicknosway, reading from and commenting on their poetry. Ai reads from...
Date: 1974-11-14
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 presents Bill Berkson, Jim Carroll, and Anne Waldman, reading their work at San Francisco State...
Date: 1974-10-10
The Poetry Center presents Judy Grahn and Diane Wakoski, appearing at the San Francisco Museum of Art, each reading from...
Date: 1974-10-02
The Poetry Center presents Audre Lorde and Etheridge Knight, both reading from their work as published by Dudley...
Date: 1974-09-26
The Poetry Center presents Edward Dorn, reading from new poetry. Dorn's reading is in two parts. He begins with...
Date: 1974-09-19
The Poetry Center presents Kenneth Rexroth, reading from his poetry and from his translations from classic Japanese...
Date: 1974-07-02
The Poetry Center presents Diane di Prima and Kathleen Fraser, each reading from their work, following introductions by...
Date: 1974-06-21
The Poetry Center presents Al Young, reading from his poetry and fiction. Young reads poems from The Song Turning Back...
Date: 1974-05-25
The Poetry Center presents an historic re-creation of the "Festival of Modern Poetry," originally organized by...
Date: 1974-05-15
The Poetry Center presents an historic re-creation of the "Festival of Modern Poetry," originally organized by...
Date: 1974-05-15
The Poetry Center presents Louis Ginsberg and Allen Ginsberg, each reading their poems for this father-and-son feature at...
Date: 1974-05-09
The Poetry Center presents Adrienne Rich, in this rare early color-video recording. Rich, in a solo feature program,...
Date: 1974-04-25
The Poetry Center presents James Welch and Dennis Schmitz, each presenting their poetry at San Francisco State...
Date: 1974-04-18
The Poetry Center presents Holly Prado, Flora Arnstein, and Beverly Dahlen reading from their work. Prado, visiting from...
Date: 1974-04-04
The Poetry Center presents Charles Reznikoff, reading his poetry before an audience at San Francisco State University. He...
Date: 1974-03-21
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 Tomas Tranströmer, reading his poetry in translations by May Swenson, Robert Bly, and...
Date: 1974-03-04
The Poetry Center presents Barbara Guest and Bobbie Louise Hawkins, each in an early appearance recorded to video,...
Date: 1974-02-14
The Poetry Center presents William Stafford and Charles Bukowski, reading their works in an anomalous pairing at the San...
Date: 1973-12-06
The Poetry Center, in one of several special programs marking its 20th anniversary with celebratory readings at the San...
Date: 1973-11-15
The Poetry Center presents poet-filmmaker James Broughton, reading from his poetry in an early video recording. Broughton...
Date: 1973-11-08
The Poetry Center presents Mark Linenthal, on the faculty at San Francisco State where he taught poetry and creative...
Date: 1973-11-01
The Poetry Center presents Tom Clark and Lewis MacAdams, reading their poems written solo and in collaboration. Clark...
Date: 1973-10-25
The Poetry Center presents Josephine Miles and Carolyn Kizer, reading their poems at San Francisco State University....
Date: 1973-10-18
The Poetry Center presents Michael McClure in a featured solo reading at the San Francisco Museum of Art (subsequently,...
Date: 1973-10-10
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 Kathleen Fraser, reading her poetry shortly after coming to San Francisco from Reed College in...
Date: 1973-06-22
The Poetry Center presents Michael McClure, in a summer program where he presents a workshop for writers modeling the...
Date: 1973-06-19
The Poetry Center presents John Ashbery, reading from his poetry at the San Francisco Museum of Art (pre SFMOMA), at...
Date: 1973-05-16
The Poetry Center presents Robert Hass and Peter Everwine, reading their poetry. Hass reads from his first book, Field...
Date: 1973-05-10
The Poetry Center presents Robert Duncan and George Oppen, reading from their poetry, in the very first video...
Date: 1973-02-22