Works in Translation
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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 audio files) (more)
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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