New: Words and Music
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Poets and musicians mixing it up across the span of The Poetry Center's historic collection. Poets erupting into song. Song deployed as tribute, homage, blessing, prayer. Song as welcome, song as goodbye. Music as company to poem's delivery. Improvisation, solo to large ensemble. Poetry performance as bases for new music. Poem as music. Aleatory electronics. Voice + percussion, voice + reed and/or string instrument, voice + boombox. Works for poet + jazz/funk orchestra. Traditional song, sacred and profane. A volunteer from the audience on a lark at the house piano.
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The Poetry Center, in collaboration with The Green Arcade and with gratitude to our hosts, McRoskey Mattress Co.,...
Date: 2013-10-18
The Poetry Center, together with the Paul K. Longmore Institute on Disability , presents Krip-Hop Nation, a...
Date: 2022-03-05
The Poetry Center presents Janice A. Lowe performing her songs written to the poems from her book Leaving Cle: Poems of...
Date: 04/20/2017
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 Jackson Mac Low and Steve Benson, in collaborative performance. The program, as the second...
Date: 1983-03-10
The Poetry Center presents Michael McClure, reading from his poetry and prose, and talking with filmmaker and poet...
Date: 1966-01-26
The Poetry Center and City Lights Books co-present a memorial tribute to David Meltzer, at San Francisco State...
Date: 11/12/2017
The Poetry Center presents Janine Pommy Vega and Jack Micheline, each reaading from their poetry, then together on stage...
Date: 1976-03-24
The Poetry Center and The Green Arcade present Fred Moten and Nathaniel Mackey reading their poetry, along with Hafez...
Date: 03/05/2016
The Poetry Center and the Diasporic Vietnamese Artists Network co-present Dao Strom and Vi Khi Nao, reading and in...
Date: 2021-02-24
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 Kenyatta A.C. Hinkle and Maryam Ivette Parhizkar, reading and in conversation. Maryam Ivette...
Date: 03/15/2019
The Poetry Center and the Department of English at UC Berkeley co-present Tom Raworth (1938–2017): A Celebration of...
Date: 04/06/2018
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 Ed Sanders, reading from his poetry — excerpts from Poem from Jail (City...
Date: 1966-03-18
The Poetry Center presents Ntozake Shange, in a rare early recorded appearance, at the César Chavez Student Union...
Date: 1976-11-17
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 in collaboration with Artists' Television Access co-presents a program of seven...
Date: 2017-09-22
The Poetry Center presents David Swallow Jr., Lakota spiritual teacher and veteran AIM (American Indian Movement)...
Date: 2022-02-04
The Poetry Center, the Center for Iranian Diaspora Studies, and the School of Music at SF State, co-present...
Date: 2023-03-16
The Poetry Center in collaboration with Artists' Television Access co-presents a program of seven...
Date: 2017-09-22
The Poetry Center presents Fay Victor and Myra Melford, with a workshop performance and conversation. The two artists,...
Date: 2019-10-03
The Poetry Center presents Fay Victor and Myra Melford in performance at the Center for New Music, downtown San...
Date: 2019-10-03
The Poetry Center presents Catherine Wagner, Dana Ward, and Tyrone Williams reading at Ruth's Table, in the Mission...
Date: 2014-10-23
The Poetry Center, in one of several special programs marking its 20th anniversary with celebratory readings at the San...
Date: 1973-11-15