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 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