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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 Frank B. Wilderson III reading from the manuscript to his forthcoming book, provisionally titled Afro-Pessimism (due early 2020 from Liveright Publishing/W.W. Norton). His reading is followed by a conversation with the audience. This event, the first of two, inaugurates The Poetry Center's Black Study Series, a new annual program supported by an anonymous donor and, in this instance, the National Endowment for the Arts.
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The Poetry Center presents Jackie Wang and Lily Hoang reading at The Green Arcade. This event, debuting Jackie Wang's book Carceral Capitalism, is one of many programs featured across the U.S. during March 2018 as part of the Poetry Coalition series on The Body, sponsored in part by a Ford Foundation grant to the Poetry Coalition. Lily Hoang (introduced by Jackie Wang) opens, reading from A Bestiary (Cleveland State University Poetry Center, 2016). She is followed by Jackie Wang (introduced by Brandon Brown) reading from Carceral Capitalism (Semiotext(e) Interventions Series, 2018).
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The Poetry Center, in collaboration with Radar Productions and the SFSU Department of Women and Gender Studies, presents novelist and essayist Sarah Schulman, along with literary critic Terry Castle, in conversation around Schulman’s latest novel, The Cosmopolitans (The Feminist Press at CUNY, 2016).