Poetry Center Archive Goes Live!
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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)
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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 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