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Norma Cole and Adrian Lürssen: October 12, 2023

The Poetry Center, in collaboration with The Wattis Institute, presents Norma Cole and...

Aired: 2023-10-12

Divya Victor, The George Oppen Memorial Lecture: December 9, 2023

The Poetry Center presents Divya Victor, delivering the annual George Oppen Memorial...

Aired: 2023-12-09

Maxine Chernoff and Gillian Conoley: May 1, 2014

The Poetry Center presents Maxine Chernoff and Gillian Conoley, reading their poetry...

Aired: 2014-05-01

Wang Ping and Ava Koohbor: November 11, 2021

The Poetry Center presents Wang Ping and Ava Koohbor, reading from their poetry, in...

Aired: 2021-11-11

Jayne Cortez: April 12, 1985

The Poetry Center presents Jayne Cortez [as part of a program shared with French...

Aired: 04/12/1985

Pat Parker and Audre Lorde: February 7, 1986

The Poetry Center Presents Pat Parker and Audre Lorde reading at the Women's...

Aired: 02/07/1986

Maya Angelou: October 14, 1971

The Poetry Center presents Maya Angelou, reading and commenting on her poems from the...

Aired: 10/14/1971

Darius James: April 21, 2019

The Poetry Center and City Lights Books co-present Darius James, reading and in...

Aired: 04/21/2019

Darius James and Val Jeanty: April 19, 2019

The Poetry Center presents novelist-writer Darius James, and Val Jeanty, Haitian...

Aired: 04/19/2019

James Kass and Paul S. Flores: May 3, 2018

The Poetry Center presents James Kass and Paul Flores, reading and in conversation, to...

Aired: 05/03/2018

Cosmic Diaspora and Steve Dalachinsky: April 19, 2018

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

Aired: 04/19/2018

Solmaz Sharif: March 7, 2018

The Poetry Center and the Center for Iranian Diaspora Studies at San Francisco State...

Aired: 03/07/2018

William Rowe and Helen Dimos: October 26, 2017

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

Aired: 10/26/2017

Douglas Kearney and Tatiana Luboviski-Acosta: September 21, 2017

The Poetry Center presents Douglas Kearney and Tatiana Luboviski-Acosta, reading and...

Aired: 09/21/2017

Ernesto Cardenal: May 16, 2015

The Poetry Center in conjunction with the Flor y Canto Festival presents a bilingual...

Aired: 05/16/2015

Bill Berkson and Duncan McNaughton: February 24, 2015

The Poetry Center and False Starts co-present Bill Berkson and Duncan McNaughton,...

Aired: 02/24/2015

Asya Abdrahman, Faith Adiele, Tonya M. Foster: March 8, 2017

The Poetry Center and the Museum of the African Diaspora co-present artist Asya...

Aired: 03/08/2017

George Oppen: February 21, 1968

The Poetry Center presents George Oppen reading two major sequences from his 1968 book...

Aired: 02/21/1968

George Oppen: October 29, 1969

The Poetry Center presents a return reading (following his early 1968 Poetry Center...

Aired: 10/29/1969

Henri Coulette and Ruth Weiss: April 19, 1960

The Poetry Center presents Henri Coulette reading early excerpts from The War of the...

Aired: 04/19/1960