Works in Translation
Featuring programs—mostly of poets, Adnan to Zurita—either with work presented in translation from the original language, or else in which languages other than American English figure in the presentation. Arabic, Bengali, Chinese, Diné, French, German, Greek, Italian, Japanese, Kurmanji, Latin, Lakota, Persian (Farsi), Portuguese (Brazil), Old Provençal, Spanish (South and Central American and Caribbean origins, plus Spain), Swedish, Tagalog, Yiddish....Programs range from audio-only recordings from the early years of The Poetry Center (1955–1969) to video (with downloadable (more)
The Poetry Center, in conjunction with the Tripwire Cross-Cultural Poetics Series, presents a Memorial Tribute to Etel...
Date: 2022-05-14
For the second event in The Poetry Center's premier Tripwire Cross-Cultural Poetics Series, we present Antena, a...
Date: 09/27/2018
The Poetry Center presents John Ashbery, reading and speaking of his poetry and poetics, and together with painter Jane...
Date: 1966-03-04
The Poetry Center, in collaboration with the Center for Iranian Diaspora Studies, presents Farnaz Fatemi and Zeina Hashem...
Date: 2022-10-12
The Poetry Center and The Green Arcade present a tribute to Franco Beltrametti (1937-1995), incorporating a screening of...
Date: 04/29/2016
The Poetry Center presents Clayton Eshleman, Robert Kelly, and Paul Blackburn reading from their works.
Date: 04/11/1969
The Poetry Center presents Robert Bly, reading from his original poetry, subsequently published in his first book,...
Date: 10/25/1961
The Poetry Center presents Bengali poet Buddhadeva Bose reading poetry in English translation from among other works his...
Date: 04/06/1965
The Poetry Center presents Giancarlo Huapaya (with translator Ryan Greene), Omar Pimienta, and José Antonio...
Date: 2019-11-07
The Poetry Center presents Giancarlo Huapaya, Omar Pimienta, and José Antonio Villarán, along with members...
Date: 2019-11-08
The Poetry Center in conjunction with the Flor y Canto Festival presents a bilingual reading by Ernesto Cardenal. As...
Date: 05/16/2015
The Poetry Center and Small Press Traffic co-present poets and translators published in the first two years of the...
Date: 10/09/2016
The Poetry Center presents Spanish poet Luis Cernuda reading a selection of his poems in the original Spanish; a speaker...
Date: 12/06/1961
The Poetry Center presents Chao Tze-Chiang chanting in Cantonese, and providing English translations, from the work of...
Date: 07/09/1958
The Poetry Center presents singer/songwriter Hataałii (a.k.a Hataałiinez Wheeler) joining us from...
Date: 2024-02-22
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 presents poets Peter Culley, reading from a recent collaborative work done with Elisa Ferrari, then...
Date: 04/03/2015
The Poetry Center presents LaTasha N. Nevada Diggs and Rachel Levitsky, reading their work and engaging with...
Date: 2013-10-03
Co-presented with the Center for Iranian Diaspora Studies and Diaspora Arts Connection , this...
Date: 2022-02-12
The Poetry Center and the Center for Iranian Diaspora Studies , San Francisco State University, co-present...
Date: 2020-12-03
The Poetry Center, together with Tripwire journal and Artists' Television Access (ATA), co-presents Egyptian...
Date: 2024-04-19
The Poetry Center presents Simon J. Ortiz and Jennifer Elise Foerster, reading from their poetry, at Medicine for...
Date: 2022-09-17
The Poetry Center presents Forrest Gander, reading and in conversation. After opening with a reading from unpublished...
Date: 09/06/2018
Michael Hamburger reads original poems and his translations of German poets.
Date: 02/15/1967
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, in conjunction with the Poetry Coalition , presents one in a series of programs organized across...
Date: 2021-04-17
The Poetry Center presents Stefan Hyner in a reading and talk entitled "This Other World Not Civilized." Hyner...
Date: 04/28/2016
The Poetry Center, joining forces with San Francisco International Flor y Canto Literary Festival and our...
Date: 2024-06-22
The Poetry Center and City Lights Books co-present Pierre Joris, reading his translations and discussing the work and...
Date: 03/18/2015
The Poetry Center presents poet and translator Pierre Joris reading, primarily, from his collection Barzakh: Poems...
Date: 03/19/2015
The Poetry Center presents Tom Clark reading and commenting on his poetry, from various works and from manuscript, and...
Date: 02/05/2016
The Poetry Center presents Rusty Morrison reading from Beyond the Chainlink (Ahsahta Press) and new works, along with...
Date: 04/30/2015
The Poetry Center presents Carolyn Kizer reading other poets' works as well as her own poems and Classical Chinese...
Date: 02/27/1967
The Poetry Center presents Brandon Shimoda and Aisuke Kondo, featuring a reading, an art presentation, and conversation....
Date: 03/07/2019
The Poetry Center and the Departments of Modern Languages and Literatures, and Jewish Studies, present José Kozer...
Date: 11/10/2016
The Poetry Center, in conjunction with Tripwire : a journal of poetics, and together with our friends...
Date: 2023-05-06
The Poetry Center, together with the Paul K. Longmore Institute on Disability at San Francisco State,...
Date: 2024-03-21
The Poetry Center presents Nanos Valaoritis reading from his poetry in English and Thanasis Maskaleris reading a...
Date: 05/23/1969
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 José Montoya, activist and co-founder (with Esteban Villa) of the Royal Chicano Air...
Date: 1977-04-13
The Poetry Center, together with Women and Gender Studies, Latina/Latino Studies, and Africana Studies at San...
Date: 2014-09-04
The Poetry Center presents poets Jennifer S. Cheng, Karla Myn Khine, and Evelyn Jo, each reading their work. This is the...
Date: 2024-05-09
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 Margaret Randall and Sergio Mondragon reading their work. George Hitchcock reads the English...
Date: 12/15/1966
The Poetry Center presents Margaret Randall reading and in conversation. Randall speaks and reads from the anthology she...
Date: 03/30/2017
The Poetry Center presents Kenneth Rexroth reading from his poetry and translations.
Date: 07/13/1955
The Poetry Center presents Kenneth Rexroth, reading translations as well his own selected works.
Date: 2/23/1965
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 Cristina Rivera Garza and Kit Schluter, reading and in conversation. Schluter reads three...
Date: 2021-03-04
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 Jerome Rothenberg, reading and in conversation. Rothenberg reads works from several of his...
Date: 11/14/2017
The Poetry Center presents Muriel Rukeyser reading from her poetry and translations of Octavio Paz.
Date: 07/16/1958
The Poetry Center presents Vanessa Angélica Villarreal and Raquel Salas Rivera, reading and in conversation....
Date: 2019-11-21
The Poetry Center presents Raquel Salas Rivera and Vanessa Angélica Villarreal, at Moe’s Books in Berkeley....
Date: 2019-11-22
The Poetry Center presents Gary Snyder reading translations of Kenji Miyazawa and his own work, mostly unpublished at the...
Date: 11/29/1964
The Poetry Center presents Gary Snyder reading from his translations of Japanese and Chinese Poetry, as well as...
Date: 12/10/1969
Gary Snyder, after reading from his Cold Mountain (Han Shan) Poems and his poem "Axe Handles," with Wang Ping...
Date: 2021-11-13
The Poetry Center presents Charles Alexander and Susan Thackrey reading and in conversation. Alexander reads from Pushing...
Date: 02/02/2017
The Poetry Center presesnts a reading in celebration of Tin Tan magazine , featuring readings by contributing...
Date: 1978-10-25
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 Monique Wittig and Jayne Cortez, reading their work on the opening night of the three-day...
Date: 1985-04-12
The Poetry Center presents James Wright sharing his favorite poetry and reading from The Branch Will Not Break .
Date: 04/26/1965
The Poetry Center presents the New Voice Series, in its second annual iteration. The series features a poet...
Date: 2022-05-05
The Poetry Center presents renowned Japanese scholar-translator Nobuyuki Yuasa talking on Basho and the haiku tradition,...
Date: 11/15/1966
The Poetry Center presents poet, editor, and translator Maged Zaher reading from The Tahrir of Poems: Seven Contemporary...
Date: 04/23/2015
The Poetry Center, with support by the Sam Mazza Foundation, presents Mazza Writer in Residence Tatiana Luboviski-Acosta...
Date: 10/04/2018
The Poetry Center presents Louis Zukofsky, March 16, 1966, speaking of his work and its background, of literary...
Date: 1966-03-16
The Poetry Center presents renowned Chilean poet Raúl Zurita, together with poet, scholar of Latin American...
Date: 2009-04-09