Alpha Index: Bañales to Burroughs
Alphabetical index of programs by author surname, subject surname, or program title, Ba–Bu. • Index photo: Basil Bunting, April 29, 1976, reading for The Poetry Center at San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (video still).
The Poetry Center presents the 2023 New Voice Series reading, featuring Meliza Bañales with Carlos Quinteros III...
Date: 2023-05-11
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 Brandon Som, visiting from San Diego, and Ari Banias, Mazza Writer in Residence for Fall 2022,...
Date: 2022-10-08
The Poetry Center presents LeRoi Jones (a.k.a. Amiri Baraka) reading poems from The Dead Lecturer , Sabotage , Target...
Date: 03/04/1965
The Poetry Center presents a Jazz Symposium on Blues People, featuring LeRoi Jones (a.k.a. Amiri Baraka), Philip Elwood,...
Date: 03/04/1965
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, in collaboration with Associated Students Performing Arts, co-presents Amiri Baraka, reading his...
Date: 1984-10-23
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 Alice Notley and Bill Bathurst, reading their poetry at San Francisco State University. Notley...
Date: 1976-02-18
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, in collaboration with the Center for Iranian Diaspora Studies, presents Farnaz Fatemi and Zeina Hashem...
Date: 2022-10-12
The Poetry Center presents Amy Berkowitz and Caren Beilin, reading and in conversation. Berkowitz reads from her...
Date: 2019-10-17
The Poetry Center, together with The Green Arcade, presents a reading in celebration of Ugly Duckling Presse, based in...
Date: 2014-03-07
The Poetry Center presents poet Prageeta Sharma, reading from her book Grief Sequence (Wave Books,...
Date: 2020-10-01
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 Jackson Mac Low and Steve Benson, in collaborative performance. The program, as the second...
Date: 1983-03-10
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
The Poetry Center, together with The Green Arcade and Kelsey Street Press, co-presents Susan Gevirtz and Mei-mei...
Date: 2014-04-26
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 Robin Blaser and Ebbe Borregaard, reading their work at the San Francisco State University...
Date: 1976-02-11
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 Mazza Writer in Residence for Fall 2023, Josiah Luis Alderete, together with Sara Borjas and...
Date: 2022-10-05
The Poetry Center presents Ebbe Borregaard and George Stanley reading from their early poetry.
Date: 03/15/1958
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, together with the Paul K. Longmore Institute on Disability at San Francisco State,...
Date: 2024-03-21
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 "a reading in love and solidarity" for poet Anne Boyer, organized as a benefit to...
Date: 2014-12-06
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 Kay Boyle, reading from her poetry, as well as a short story. On the faculty of Creative...
Date: 1975-12-10
The Poetry Center presents Richard Brautigan and Floyd Salas, reading from their own works.
Date: 02/28/1968
The Poetry Center presents Leslie Scalapino, David Hoag, and Summer Brenner, each poet reading their work in this early...
Date: 1975-05-01
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 poet-filmmaker James Broughton, reading from his poetry in an early video recording. Broughton...
Date: 1973-11-08
The Poetry Center presents an historic re-creation of the "Festival of Modern Poetry," originally organized by...
Date: 1974-05-15
The Poetry Center presents James Broughton and Helen Adam, presenting their poetry at a special reading held at the...
Date: 1977-11-02
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, in collaboration with The Green Arcade, presents Spring 2023 Mazza Writer in Residence Phoebe...
Date: 2023-04-22
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 William Stafford and Charles Bukowski, reading their works in an anomalous pairing at the San...
Date: 1973-12-06
The Poetry Center presents Basil Bunting, reading Briggflatts, his most celebrated long poem, and, by...
Date: 1976-04-29
The Poetry Center, in collaboration with Gay Sunshine , co-presents John Giorno and William S. Burroughs, each reading...
Date: 1974-11-04