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 added. The (more)
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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