Monique Wittig and Jayne Cortez: April 12, 1985
The Poetry Center presents Monique Wittig and Jayne Cortez, reading their work on the opening night of the three-day Women Working in Literature conference at San Francisco State University, organized by The Poetry Center under the direction of Frances Phillips. Wittig reads multiple scenes from The Constant Journey, a translation by Sande Zeig of her play Le voyage san fin (1985), which is a rewriting of Miguel de Cervantes' Quixote, with the characters being women. Cortez, for what she notes is a rare return to present her poetry in California, after her having moved years before to New York City, reads a set of poems drawing from her book Coagulations: New & Selected Poems (Thunder's Mouth Press, 1984). Frances Phillips provides the introductions, after patiently marshalling the full-house audience at Knuth Hall, the music-performance theater in the Creative Arts Building at San Francisco State.
Note: Wittig and Cortez were preceded on stage by Olga Broumas, giving the keynote address to the Women Working in Literature conference; not yet digitized, the recording of Broumas will be posted at a later date.
- Publisher
- American Poetry Archives
- Location
- Knuth Hall, Creative Arts Building, San Francisco State University
- Date
- 1985-04-12
- Event Run Time
- 00:59:20
- Contributors
- Francis Phillips
- Rights
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