Alpha Index: Abdrahman to Bunting
Alphabetical index of programs by author surname, subject surname, or program title, A–B. • Index photo: Ai (Florence Anthony), November 14, 1974, reading at The Poetry Center, San Francisco State (video still).
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 and the Museum of the African Diaspora co-present artist Asya Abdrahman and writers Faith Adiele and...
Date: 03/08/2017
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 presents Helen Adam reading from Ballads and other poems. This event also featured Jess, reading his...
Date: 04/07/1957
The Poetry Center presents Helen Adam reading from her poetry, and songs from her ballad opera San Francisco's...
Date: 05/05/1964
The Poetry Center presents Robert Adamson reading from The Goldfinches of Baghdad (Flood Editions, 2006) and Net Needle...
Date: 03/05/2015
The Poetry Center presents Joanne Kyger and Australian poet Robert Adamson, reading primarily from new works:...
Date: 03/06/2015
The Poetry Center presents “Adjunct Action | Poets in Action,” a panel at the 2nd Annual Howard Zinn Book...
Date: 11/15/2015
The Poetry Center, in conjunction with the Tripwire Cross-Cultural Poetics Series, presents a Memorial Tribute to Etel...
Date: 2022-05-14
The Poetry Center presents Ai, reading poetry from her book Cruelty, published by Houghton Mifflin in 1973, and from as...
Date: 11/14/1974
The Poetry Center presents James Cagney and Josiah Luis Alderete, reading and in conversation. Cagney reads new poetry,...
Date: 2020-02-06
The Poetry Center presents Charles Alexander and Susan Thackrey reading and in conversation. Alexander reads from Pushing...
Date: 02/02/2017
The Poetry Center presents Wendy Trevino and Zaina Alsous, reading and in conversation. Poetry Center Mazza Writer...
Date: 2020-11-19
The Poetry Center presents Maya Angelou, reading and commenting on her poems from the book Just Give Me a Cool Drink of...
Date: 10/14/1971
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 from his poetry at the San Francisco Museum of Art (pre SFMOMA), at...
Date: 1973-05-16
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 W. H. Auden, delivering a lecture titled "On the Hero in Modern Poetry" before an...
Date: 1954-10-11
The Poetry Center presents Audre Lorde Creative Writing Award-winner Elizabeth Rosas and Award-finalists Samantha...
Date: 2020-09-10
The Poetry Center, in conjunction with the Poetry Coalition , presents one in a series of programs organized across...
Date: 2020-11-05
The Poetry Center, along with the Fine Arts Gallery , SF State, in conjunction with the exhibition Beyond...
Date: 2022-10-06
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 George Barker reading from his poetry.
Date: 10/21/1959
The Poetry Center presents musicians Ben Barson and Royal Hartigan, visiting the Bay Area to celebrate the life and...
Date: 2014-09-04
The Poetry Center presents Jennifer Bartlett and Denise Leto, reading their work and engaging in conversation, for the...
Date: 2020-02-20
The Poetry Center presents Denise Leto and Jennifer Bartlett, reading at The Green Arcade, San Francisco. Leto, with Rose...
Date: 2020-02-21
The Poetry Center presents a reading by Ashley Toliver, Poetry Center Book Award-winner for her book of poems, ...
Date: 2020-09-17
The Poetry Center presents Amy Berkowitz and Caren Beilin, reading and in conversation. Berkowitz reads from her...
Date: 2019-10-17
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 Amy Berkowitz and Caren Beilin, reading at E.M. Wolfman Bookstore in Oakland, CA. Jacob Kahn...
Date: 2019-10-18
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 and False Starts co-present Bill Berkson and Duncan McNaughton, reading from recent work at The Lab,...
Date: 02/24/2015
The Poetry Center presents Duncan McNaughton, reading from Tiny Windows (Auguste Press, 2014), among other work, and Bill...
Date: 02/26/2015
The Poetry Center and The Green Arcade co-present a tribute to Bill Berkson (1939–2016), hosted by McRoskey...
Date: 09/24/2016
The Poetry Center presents Lucia Berlin and Douglas Woolf, each reading from their work, with introductions by...
Date: 1984-02-24
The Poetry Center and the UC Berkeley Department of English co-present this celebration of the publication of Lucia...
Date: 10/07/2015
The Poetry Center presents Oscar Bermeo and Barbara Jane Reyes reading and in conversation. Bermeo reads unpublished...
Date: 12/01/2016
The Poetry Center presents Mei-mei Berssenbrugge, in an early recorded solo reading of her poetry. Scheduled to...
Date: 1976-04-21
In celebration of Kelsey Street Press's 45 th Anniversary, The Poetry Center, together with Kelsey Street Press and...
Date: 2019-12-13
The Poetry Center presents the third event of the Kuwentuhan (Talkstory) project, featuring readings by Arlene Biala,...
Date: 04/22/2016
The Poetry Center presents The Black Aesthetic, including curatorial members Jamal Batts, Ryanaustin Dennis, and Leila...
Date: 04/26/2018
The Poetry Center, in conjunction with Black Freighter Press , presents a celebration of this welcome new Bay...
Date: 2021-04-29
The Poetry Center presents Robin Blaser, reading from his own poetry and the works of his late friend and fellow poet...
Date: 3/9/1967
The Poetry Center presents Julia Bloch and erica lewis reading and in conversation. Bloch reads from her book Valley...
Date: 10/06/2016
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 poets Katy Bohinc, reading from Dear Alain (Tender Buttons Press, 2014) and Paul Ebenkamp...
Date: 10/01/2015
The Poetry Center presents Ebbe Borregaard and George Stanley reading from their early poetry.
Date: 03/15/1958
The Poetry Center presents "a reading in love and solidarity" for poet Anne Boyer, organized as a benefit to...
Date: 2014-12-06
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 and Bird & Beckett Books & Records co-present musicians David Boyce (tenor saxophone), Hafez...
Date: 03/16/2017
The Poetry Center presents Bruce Boyd, Saul White, and Stuart Z. Perkoff reading from their poetry.
Date: 03/30/1958
The Poetry Center presents Kay Boyle, at the time on the San Francisco State University faculty in English, reading from...
Date: 04/01/1964
The Poetry Center presents Richard Brautigan and Floyd Salas, reading from their own works.
Date: 02/28/1968
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 Garrett Caples and Julian Talamantez Brolaski reading and in conversation. Garrett Caples...
Date: 02/15/2018
The Poetry Center presents Gwendolyn Brooks, reading at Wheeler Hall, the University of California, Berkeley, at an event...
Date: 04/21/1997
The Poetry Center presents a performance of two plays by James Broughton, Mother, Reality & Happiness and The Last...
Date: 05/23/57
The Poetry Center presents James Broughton reading from his poetry and songs, with a performance by singer Anna Carol...
Date: 11/23/1960
The Poetry Center presents James Broughton reading his poems with Joel Andrews performing instrumental accompaniment on...
Date: 03/02/1965
The Poetry Center presents Bill Brown reading from his novel, The Way to the Uncle Sam Hotel and James Koller reading...
Date: 10/18/1967
The Poetry Center presents Lee Ann Brown and Rod Smith reading and in conversation. Lee Ann Brown reads new work as well...
Date: 10/20/2016
The Poetry Center co-presents a celebration of the Diasporic Vietnamese Artists Network (DVAN), held at Jack...
Date: 2020-03-03
The Poetry Center presents Basil Bunting, reading Briggflatts, his most celebrated long poem, and, by...
Date: 1976-04-29