1970s Audio Programs

The Poetry Center's 1970s audio-only collection reaches from the start of the decade to the advent of early video recordings, starting in 1973. In that year programs started to be recorded to black-and-white open-reel video, with the occasional program still being recorded as audio-only. The decade follows on the 1968–69 San Francisco State Student Strike (and supporting Faculty Strike) with some evident opening up of the scope of Poetry Center programming. Under director Mark Linenthal and assistant Stan Rice, highlights of these recorded programs include an early Gay Rights Reading and (more)