Alpha Index: Dahlen to Durbin

Alphabetical index of programs by author surname, subject surname, or program title, Da–Du. • Index photo: Robert Duncan, November 2, 1965, at home on 20th Street in San Francisco's Mission District, program in the USA Poetry, NET Outtakes Series, by Richard O. Moore of KQED-TV (video still).

Kyle Dacuyan and Mirene Arsanios: April 8, 2023

The Poetry Center, in conjunction with the Poetry Coalition, presents Kyle Dacuyan and Mirene Arsanios, reading and in...

Date: 2023-04-08

Beverly Dahlen, Holly Prado, Flora Arnstein: April 4, 1974

The Poetry Center presents Holly Prado, Flora Arnstein, and Beverly Dahlen reading from their work. Prado, visiting from...

Date: 1974-04-04

Uche Nduka and Sophia Dahlin: February 11, 2021

The Poetry Center presents Uche Nduka and Sophia Dahlin, reading and in conversation. Nduka reads from his...

Date: 2021-02-11

Cosmic Diaspora and Steve Dalachinsky: April 19, 2018

The Poetry Center presents Cosmic Diaspora and Steve Dalachinsky, reading and in performance. Cosmic Diaspora (Jake...

Date: 04/19/2018

Hazel White and Sabrina Dalla Valle: April 24, 2014

The Poetry Center presents Hazel White and Sabrina Dalla Valle, reading from their poetry and engaging in...

Date: 2014-04-24

Maria Damon, The George Oppen Memorial Lecture: December 13, 2014

The Poetry Center presents Maria Damon, delivering what was the 29th annual George Oppen Memorial Lecture. Damon takes up...

Date: 2014-12-13

Gabrielle Daniels and Hung Q. Tu: April 30, 2022

The Poetry Center, together with  Dogpark Collective , presents a celebration of two new works from this...

Date: 2022-04-30

Legacy of Forugh Farrokhzad, with Sholeh Wolpé, Jasmin Darznik, and Shabnam Piryaei: December 3, 2020

The Poetry Center and the  Center for Iranian Diaspora Studies , San Francisco State University, co-present...

Date: 2020-12-03

Donald Davie and Thom Gunn: May 18, 1958

The Poetry Center presents Donald Davie and Thom Gunn reading from their poetry.

Date: 05/18/1958

Guy Davis, Shirley Kaufman, and Daniel Moore: October 22, 1963

The Poetry Center presents Guy Davis, Shirley Kaufman and Daniel Moore reading their poetry, in the Poetry Center's...

Date: 10/22/1963

Matthew Clark Davison, Stacy D. Flood, and Patrick Earl Ryan: February 24, 2022

For this Prose at The Poetry Center event, three friends and SF State alums: Matthew Clark Davison, Stacy D. Flood,...

Date: 2022-02-24

Barbara Tomash and Donna de la Perrière: November 13, 2014

The Poetry Center presents Barbara Tomash and Donna de la Perrière, both at the time adjunct professors in...

Date: 2014-11-13

Carolina De Robertis and Micah Perks: November 3, 2016

The Poetry Center presents Carolina De Robertis and Micah Perks reading and in conversation. Carolina De Robertis reads...

Date: 11/03/2016

Lynn Lonidier and Bill Deemer: October 19, 1965

The Poetry Center presents Lynn Lonidier and Bill Deemer reading from their works.

Date: 10/19/1965

Juliana Delgado Lopera and Monique Jenkinson, aka Fauxnique: April 27, 2019

The Poetry Center presents "an afternoon of literary drag," with Spring 2019 Mazza Writer in Residence Juliana...

Date: 04/27/2019

Juliana Delgado Lopera and Joseph Cassara: May 2, 2019

The Poetry Center presents Spring 2019 Mazza Writer in Residence Juliana Delgado Lopera and Joseph Cassara, reading and...

Date: 05/02/19

A Tribute to Jayne Cortez — Robin D.G. Kelley with Justin Desmangles: November 14, 2013

The Poetry Center presents Robin D. G. Kelley with Justin Desmangles, in a tribute to poet Jayne Cortez (May 10,...

Date: 2013-11-14

Prageeta Sharma and Thomas Devaney: May 7, 2015

The Poetry Center presents Prageeta Sharma reading from Undergloom (Fence Books, 2013), from previously published works,...

Date: 05/07/2015

Robert Dewhurst and Michael Seth Stewart on the Life and Works of John Wieners: September 10, 2015

The Poetry Center presents poet-scholars Robert Dewhurst and Michael Seth Stewart reading from and discussing the works...

Date: 09/10/2015

Diasporic Vietnamese Artists Network: Viet Thanh Nguyen, Thi Bui, Isabelle Thuy Pelaud, She Who Has No Master(s), and Danny Thanh Nguyen: March 3, 2020

The Poetry Center co-presents a celebration of the Diasporic Vietnamese Artists Network (DVAN), held at Jack...

Date: 2020-03-03

Elise Ficarra and Steve Dickison: June 1, 2024

Friends of The Poetry Center present Elise Ficarra and Steve Dickison, "a reading by the organizers of hundreds of...

Date: 2024-06-01

Joan Didion: February 23, 1977

The Poetry Center presents Joan Didion, in what was her first ever public reading. Celebrated prose-stylist, journalist,...

Date: 1977-02-23

LaTasha N. Nevada Diggs and Rachel Levitsky: October 3, 2013

The Poetry Center presents LaTasha N. Nevada Diggs and Rachel Levitsky, reading their work and engaging with...

Date: 2013-10-03

William Rowe and Helen Dimos: October 26, 2017

The Poetry Center presents William Rowe and Helen Dimos reading and in conversation. William Rowe reads newer poems in...

Date: 10/26/2017

Ari Banias and Demian Dinéyazhi’ at Beyond Binary: October 6, 2022

The Poetry Center, along with the  Fine Arts Gallery , SF State, in conjunction with the exhibition  Beyond...

Date: 2022-10-06

Diane di Prima: April 24, 1968

The Poetry Center presents Diane di Prima, accompanied by musician John Braden, reading from plays and poems.

Date: 04/24/1968

Diane di Prima and Kathleen Fraser: June 21, 1974

The Poetry Center presents Diane di Prima and Kathleen Fraser, each reading from their work, following introductions by...

Date: 1974-06-21

Diane di Prima and Lenore Kandel: March 17, 1976

The Poetry Center presents Diane di Prima and Lenore Kandel, together on stage reading their work and engaging in...

Date: 1976-03-17

jayy dodd and Lourdes Figueroa: October 28, 2021

The Poetry Center presents jayy dodd, whose book  The Black Condition ft. Narcissus  (Nightboat Books,...

Date: 2021-10-28

Angel Dominguez and Hannah Kezema: October 14, 2021

The Poetry Center presents Hannah Kezema, reading from the manuscript of her forthcoming book Case Files , and Angel...

Date: 2021-10-14

Angel Dominguez and Ronaldo V. Wilson: October 16, 2021

The Poetry Center presents Angel Dominguez and Ronaldo V. Wilson, in conversation with one another then followed by each...

Date: 2021-10-16

Joseph Donahue, The George Oppen Memorial Lecture: December 14, 2013

The Poetry Center presents Joseph Donahue, delivering the 28th annual George Oppen Memorial Lecture. Donahue's title...

Date: 2013-12-14

Keith Donnell Jr. and Antony Fangary: September 23, 2021

The Poetry Center presents Keith Donnell Jr. and Antony Fangary, reading and in conversation, at the Poetry Center...

Date: 2021-09-23

Evelyn Ficarra [featuring voices and poetry of Jackson Mac Low and Stacy Doris]: Light Conference [2015]

The Poetry Center in 2015 commissioned Evelyn Ficarra , California-born, UK-based composer and sound-artist, to create a...

Date: 2015-07-XX

Edward Dorn: September 19, 1974

The Poetry Center presents Edward Dorn, reading from new poetry. Dorn's reading is in two parts. He begins with...

Date: 1974-09-19

Edward Sanders and Edward Dorn: April 28, 1976

The Poetry Center, together with New College of California, co-present Edward Sanders and Edward Dorn, reading their work...

Date: 1976-04-28

Edward Dorn's Collected Poems: October 4, 2013

The Poetry Center presents a reading in celebration of  Edward Dorn: Collected Poems (Carcanet Press, 2012), edited...

Date: 2013-10-04

Lauren Shufran and r. erica doyle: September 5, 2013

The Poetry Center presents Lauren Shufran and r. erica doyle, reading and in conversation. Lauren Shufran reads...

Date: 2013-09-05

Julia Drescher and C. J. Martin: October 26, 2023

The Poetry Center presents Julia Drescher and C. J. Martin, reading and in conversation with each other and with their...

Date: 2023-26-10

Ugly Duckling Presse — Bay Area Reading, featuring Cedar Sigo, Brent Cunningham, Micah Ballard, Dodie Bellamy, John Sakkis, Clark Coolidge, Sarah Wintz, Patrick Dunagan, and Tom Comitta: March 7, 2014

The Poetry Center, together with The Green Arcade, presents a reading in celebration of Ugly Duckling Presse, based in...

Date: 2014-03-07

Orlando White and Patrick James Dunagan: April 27, 2017

The Poetry Center presents Orlando White, recipient of the Poetry Center Book Award for LETTERRS (Nightboat Books, 2015)....

Date: 04/27/2017

Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, Amy Sonnie, James Tracy and friends: September 10, 2021

The Poetry Center presents three outstanding Bay Area writer-activists, reading and in conversation on the radical...

Date: 2021-09-10

Robert Duncan: October 10, 1956

The Poetry Center presents Robert Duncan reading from his poetry and a play.

Date: 10/10/1956

Robert Duncan: May 18, 1959

The Poetry Center presents Robert Duncan reading his poetry from and discussing his book The Opening of the Field (1960).

Date: 05/18/1959

Robert Duncan — USA: Poetry, NET Outtakes Series: November 2, 1965

The Poetry Center presents Robert Duncan, writing and working with recent poems, from his "Passages"...

Date: 1965-11-02

Robert Duncan and George Oppen: February 22, 1973

The Poetry Center presents Robert Duncan and George Oppen, reading from their poetry, in the very first video...

Date: 1973-02-22

Poets of the Forties, Part 1 — Robert Duncan, Robert Horan, Rosalie Moore, James Broughton, Madeline Gleason: May 15, 1974

The Poetry Center presents an historic re-creation of the "Festival of Modern Poetry," originally organized by...

Date: 1974-05-15

Poets of the Forties, Part 2 — Robert Duncan, Janet Lewis, Thomas Parkinson, Richard O. Moore, William Everson: May 15, 1974

The Poetry Center presents an historic re-creation of the "Festival of Modern Poetry," originally organized by...

Date: 1974-05-15

Dale Smith, on Robert Duncan and Charles Olson: February 8, 2018

The Poetry Center presents Dale M. Smith speaking on Robert Duncan and Charles Olson, reading briefly from his own...

Date: 02/08/2018

Camille T. Dungy and Javier Zamora: September 28, 2017

The Poetry Center presents Camille T. Dungy and Javier Zamora, reading and in conversation. Camille Dungy reads poems...

Date: 09/28/2017

Diana Khoi Nguyen and Lan Duong: April 13, 2023

The Poetry Center and Diasporic Vietnamese Artists’ Network (DVAN), together with the Global Museum at San...

Date: 2023-04-13

Kevin Killian and Andrew Durbin: November 6, 2014

The Poetry Center presents Kevin Killian and Andrew Durbin, each reading generously from new work and engaging in...

Date: 2014-11-06