Mei-mei Berssenbrugge: April 21, 1976
The Poetry Center presents Mei-mei Berssenbrugge, in an early recorded solo reading of her poetry. Scheduled to appear together with Leslie Marmon Silko, Berssenbrugge, visiting from New Mexico, opens by reading a poem of Silko's, given the latter was unable to attend. She then reads generously from her own poetry, reading, from manuscript, poems that would subsequently appear in her book Random Possession (published by Ishmael Reed's I. Reed Books in 1982), poems from her previously published book, Summits Move With the Tide (Greenwood Review Press, 1974), and what she notes are new poems.
Berssenbrugge is introduced by Lewis MacAdams, who also announces approaching Poetry Center readings by Samuel Menashe, Ed Dorn, and Ed Sanders. This event takes place in the erstwhile Barbary Coast Room in the César Chavez Student Center, San Francisco State University.
- Publisher
- American Poetry Archives
- Location
- Barbary Coast Room, César Chavez Student Center, San Francisco State
- Date
- 1976-04-21
- Event Run Time
- 00:47:34
- Contributors
- Lewis MacAdams
- Leslie Marmon Silko
- Rights
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