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The Poetry Center, in collaboration with New College of California, presents Amiri Baraka, reading from his poetry and talking with the audience. The event, at New College, on Valencia Street in San Francisco's Mission District, is opened by Duncan McNaughton, of the New College Poetics program. He introduces Edward Dorn, who in turn introduces Baraka. Funds had been raised to fly Baraka from New York to San Francisco by way of a reading organized earlier that Spring at New College featuring Dorn and McNaughton, among others. Baraka reverses his sequence from his appearance before students earlier the same day at San Francisco State University, starting the evening with poems.
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The Poetry Center presents Amiri Baraka, talking to students on revolution, political organizing, and the function of art in society, followed by a reading from new poems. Baraka reads from Hard Facts 1973–75 (People's War, Newark, 1976), and other recent work, at the César Chavez Student Center, San Francisco State University.
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The Poetry Center and False Starts co-present Bill Berkson and Duncan McNaughton, reading from recent work at The Lab, San Francisco. Berkson reads recent work, including poems from Expect Delays (Coffee House Press, 2014). Duncan McNaughton reads recent work, including poems from Tiny Windows (Auguste Press, 2014). The event was co-sponsored by The Poetry Center and False Starts reading series at The Lab. Note: audio only, from a videorecording, courtesy of The Lab.
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The Poetry Center presents Cosmic Diaspora and Steve Dalachinsky, reading and in performance. Cosmic Diaspora (Jake Marmer, poetry; John Schott, guitar; and Joshua Horowitz, keyboard, accordion) opens with a set of songs shaped around poems by Marmer, paralleling immigration and science fiction. Steve Dalachinsky follows with an extended reading, much of it dedicated to musicians, from The Superintendent's Eye (Autonomedia/Unbearable Books, 2000), The Mantis (Iniquita Press, 2009), and works in manuscript.
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The Poetry Center presents Dale M. Smith speaking on Robert Duncan and Charles Olson, reading briefly from his own poetry, and in conversation. Smith presents two pieces drawing on his research into the relationship between poets Duncan and Olson, as involved in his work on two books: An Open Map: The Correspondence Between Robert Duncan and Charles Olson and Imagining Persons: Robert Duncan's Lectures on Charles Olson, both volumes co-edited by Smith and the late Robert J. Bertholf (University of Mexico Press, 2017). Smith also reads briefly from his recent book Sons (Knife Fork Book, 2017). The reading is followed by a conversation with the audience.
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The Poetry Center and Bird & Beckett Books & Records co-present musicians David Boyce (tenor saxophone), Hafez Modirzadeh (soprano saxophone), and Marshall Trammell (drums and percussion) in performance at Bird & Beckett Books & Records, San Francisco. The event, titled "Arcana Boil," also features poets Linda Norton, Brian Lucas, and Rod Roland, with Nicholas Whittington and Steve Dickison reading works by the late David Meltzer, as a celebration of the "Shuffle Boil" special edition of Whittington's magazine Amerarcana, guest-edited by Meltzer and Dickison. Each of the musicians and poets were contributors to the magazine. During March 2017, all Poetry Center programs were dedicated to the theme "Because We Come from Everything: Poetry and Migration," shared with 30+ organizations across the US engaged in the Poetry Coalition.
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The Poetry Center presents David Henderson reading a retrospective selection of poems, from his earliest published works to the present, and in conversation with the audience. Henderson reads from Felix of the Silent Forest (Poets Press, 1967), De Mayor of Harlem (E.P. Dutton, 1970), The Low East (North Atlantic Books, 1980), Neo California (North Atlantic Books, 1998), and newer work from manuscript, including a work-in-progress “For Gil Scott-Heron.” His reading is followed by a conversation with the audience.
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The Poetry Center presents a reading in celebration of Edward Dorn: Collected Poems (Carcanet Press, 2012), edited and with a preface by Jennifer Dunbar Dorn, with Justin Katko, Reitha Patison, Kyle Waugh; afterwords by Amiri Baraka and J. H. Prynne.
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The Poetry Center presents James Kass and Paul Flores, reading and in conversation, to celebrate the 21st anniversary of Youth Speaks. They read from manuscript, and performed from memory, poems that reflect on their time as founders and directors at Youth Speaks, which they launched in 1996 while still graduate students in the MFA Writing program at SF State. They discuss topics in between the poems, with their readings followed by a conversation with the audience.
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The Poetry Center presents a rare reading by Black Arts Movement poets K. Curtis Lyle, founding member of the Watts Writers Workshop of Los Angeles, and Calvin C. Hernton, sociologist and poet and founding member of the New York City-based Umbra Workshop. The poets are introduced, at New College of California in San Francisco's Mission district, by their friend (and fellow Umbra poet) Ishmael Reed. He is welcomed to the stage by Poetry Center director Lewis MacAdams, organizer of the event, in collaboration with the New College Poetics Program.
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The Poetry Center presents Kenyatta A.C. Hinkle and Maryam Ivette Parhizkar, reading and in conversation. Maryam Ivette Parhizkar opens, reading an assortment of her poems as published at The Brooklyn Rail, OmniVerse, Gramma, and Gesture, as well as unpublished work. Kenyatta A.C. Hinkle reads extended excerpts from her forthcoming debut book SIR (Litmus Press, 2019). Their readings are followed by a conversation with the audience. This event continues is the second evening of a two-night program in The Poetry Center's In Common Writers Series, supported by a grant from the Walter & Elise Haas Fund.
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The Poetry Center presents a Jazz Symposium on Blues People, featuring LeRoi Jones (a.k.a. Amiri Baraka), Philip Elwood, Richard Hadlock, and John Handy.
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The Poetry Center presents LeRoi Jones (a.k.a. Amiri Baraka) reading poems from The Dead Lecturer, Sabotage, Target Study, and his novel in progress A New World.
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The Poetry Center presents Maria Damon, delivering what was the 29th annual George Oppen Memorial Lecture. Damon takes up the consideration of the making of works other than poems, by persons other than poets, as pursuing a poetics that gets denied serious study. Taking potter and writer M. C. Richards' statement "Poets are not the only poets" (Centering: in Pottery, Poetry, and the Person, Wesleyan University Press, 1964) as title of her talk, Damon moves from her being drawn to both "micropoetries" and "macropoetries" in her study and writings into a reading of Allen Ginsberg's poem "Howl" as an instance of confounding of human and animal voices, with the poem's reiterated "who... who... who..." as sounding that borders on that of the beast.
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The Poetry Center presents Martha Ronk and Paul Vangelisti, reading and in conversation. Martha Ronk reads poems on the subject of photography from her book Ocular Proof (Omnidawn Publishing, 2016) and newer works in manuscript. Paul Vangelisti reads poems from his book Border Music (Talisman House, 2016) and a longer work from the chapbook "Toodaloo" (Magra Books). The readings are followed by a conversation with the audience.
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The Poetry Center presents Maya Angelou, reading and commenting on her poems from the book Just Give Me a Cool Drink of Water 'Fore I Diiie (Random House, 1971), and responding to questions from the audience about her life and work, including her autobiography I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings and its adaptation to film. Note: This recording is audio only. Photos of Maya Angelou, October 14, 1971, from the San Francisco State Phoenix.
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The Poetry Center, in conjunction with the Tripwire Cross-Cultural Poetics Series, presents two of the more outstanding younger Black writers and intellectuals at work in the US and UK, in this remote-access program. Momtaza Mehri, appearing from North Africa, reads from her poetry, and Zoé Samudzi, appearing from the Central U.S., reads a selection of others' poetry and prose, prior to the two writers joining in conversation. Mehri and Samudzi are introduced and accompanied by alex cruse, emcee, with David Buuck speaking briefly regarding the Tripwire Cross-Cultural Poetics Series and its collaboration with The Poetry Center, and of Tripwire journal and the Tripwire Pamphlet Series.
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The Poetry Center Presents Pat Parker and Audre Lorde reading at the Women's Building in San Francisco. Pat Parker reads from Jonestown & other madness: poetry (Firebrand Books, 1985), Movement in Black (Crossing Press, 1978), and The Complete Works of Pat Parker (A Midsummer Night's Press, 2016). Audre Lorde reads from Our Dead Behind Us (W.W. Norton & Company, 1986). Parker and Lorde trade reading in four alternate "sets."
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The Poetry Center presents poet-scholars Robert Dewhurst and Michael Seth Stewart reading from and discussing the works of poet John Wieners (1934–2002). The program includes a screening of the outtakes from Richard O. Moore's 1965 "USA: Poetry" public television documentary featuring John Wieners in San Francisco along with Robert Duncan.
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After an introduction by their friend and comrade Manolo Callahan, of the Center for Convivial Research and Autonomy, Stefano Harney and Fred Moten deliver the second of four linked Bay Area lectures, under the collective title "Felicity Street." The present lecture is titled "Involvement and Betrayal" (On Andaiye, Martin Carter, Guyana and what Michelle Cliff calls "the centerless, outward edgelessness of the Caribbean"). Throughout their talk, Harney and Moten respond to questions and comments from the audience. The program was co-presented by The Poetry Center and The Green Arcade, with thanks to our host, the McRoskey Mattress Company, and to the Bagley Wright Lecture Series on Poetry, for their initiation and support of this series of lectures.
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The Poetry Center and the Department of English at UC Berkeley co-present Tom Raworth (1938–2017): A Celebration of His Life and Work: 23 poets, musicians, publishers, and friends, in tribute to Tom Raworth. Taking place in the Maude Fife Room in Wheeler Hall at UC Berkeley, the event includes in-person tributes, along with several recorded or written and read by proxy, by: Lyn Hejinian, Stephen Emerson, Norma Cole, Alastair Johnston, Kit Robinson, Claude Royet-Journoud, David Southern, Jean Day, Alan Bernheimer, Merrill Gilfillan, Armando Pajalich, Stephen Vincent, Rod Smith, Larry Ochs, Fanny Howe, Jennifer Dunbar Dorn, Jim Nisbet, Gian Antonio Pozzi, Rita degli Esposti, Duncan McNaughton, Dale Heard, Lyn Hejinian, Andy Berlin, Steve Dickison, and Miles Champion. Selections from a 2012 recording of Tom Raworth, reading his poems (from Tottering State: Selected Early Poems, 1963–1983, The Figures, 1984/O Books, 2000) conclude the evening.
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The Poetry Center and The Green Arcade co-present Tongo Eisen-Martin, poetry, with Marshall Trammell, music, at The Green Arcade, San Francisco. Eisen-Martin, with Trammell on drums, in a first-time-ever collaboration, performs poems from Heaven Is All Goodbyes (City Lights Books, 2017), and someone's dead already (Bootstrap Press, 2015). This event is the culminating performance of Eisen-Martin's week as premier Mazza Writer in Residence with the Poetry Center, sponsored by the Sam Mazza Foundation.
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Tyrone Williams presents the 34th annual George Oppen Memorial Lecture, at the Unitarian Center, San Francisco. The George Oppen Memorial Lecture is supported by the Dorothy A. Fowler Trust.