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The Poetry Center presents Angel Dominguez and Ronaldo V. Wilson, in conversation with one another then followed by each poet reading work from forthcoming books—Dominguez from DESGRACIADO (The Collected Letters) and Wilson from Virgil Kills. As The Poetry Center's 7th Mazza Writer in Residence, Dominguez was guest writer in classes across the SF State campus during the week of October 11, 2021, and presented two public events, of which this is the latter. The Mazza Writer in Residence program is supported by the Sam Mazza Foundation.
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The Poetry Center presents Audre Lorde Creative Writing Award-winner Elizabeth Rosas and Award-finalists Samantha Cosentino, Lillian Giles, and Bradley Penner (the latter opting not to present his poetry), reading and in conversation. The emcee, for this first of many Poetry Center remote-access programs to take place during the COVID-19 pandemic, is Poetry Center staff and MFA student TreVaughn Roach-Carter. Bradley Penner, declining the invitation to read his poems, instead presents a statement in solidarity with the George Floyd Uprising in response to racialized violence and structural social injustice, and in support with black lives and Black Lives Matter-related activism. Giles, Cosentino, and Rosas each read their poems and then speak with each other and respond to questions from the audience.
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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 Douglas Kearney and Tatiana Luboviski-Acosta, reading and in conversation. Douglas Kearney performs works from his books Buck Studies (Fence Books, 2016) and Someone Took They Tongues (Subito Press, 2016), as well as new work, plus an improvised piece incorporating lines out of books from Poetry Center shelves (Lawrence Raab, Mark Jarman, Maude Meehan, Artie Gold, Rochelle Owens, and the North Coast Review) with Kearney's own Buck Studies and Mess and Mess and (Noemi Press, 2015). Tatiana Luboviski-Acosta reads new works and poetry from her book The Easy Body (Timeless, Infinite Light, 2017). The readings are followed by an extended conversation with the audience.
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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, in conjunction with the Poetry Coalition, presents one in a series of programs organized across the U.S. during 2020, around the shared topic of "Poetry and Protest." The program series takes its inspiration from these lines by the late Audre Lorde: “I am deliberate / and afraid / of nothing” (from her poem "New Year's Day").
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The Poetry Center presents Jackie Wang and Lily Hoang, reading and in conversation. This event 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). Jackie Wang reads from Carceral Capitalism (Semiotext(e) Interventions Series, 2018) and Lily Hoang reads from A Bestiary (Cleveland State University Poetry Center, 2016). Their readings are followed by a conversation with the audience.
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The Poetry Center presents John Keene reading his story "Cold" from his book Counternarratives (New Directions, 2015) and responding to questions from the audience.
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The Poetry Center presents John Keene reading his story "Acrobatique" from his book Counternarratives (New Directions, 2015), followed by an extended conversation with Tân Khánh Cao. Co-presented with Green Apple Books on the Park.
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The Poetry Center presents Jasmine Gibson and Juliana Spahr reading from their works. Jasmine Gibson opens, reading poems from her newly published book, Don't Let Them See Me Like This (Nightboat Books, 2018) as well as newer work from manuscript. Juliana Spahr reads an extended excerpt from a new, as yet untitled, work in progress. This event is the second evening of a double program, and part of The Poetry Center's In Common Writers Series, supported by the Walter & Elise Haas Fund.
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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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Co-presented by The Poetry Center and the Labor Archives and Research Center, Mark Nowak is joined by six poets affiliated with the Worker Writers School. Poets Lorraine Garnett, Davidson Garrett, Seth Goldman, Christine Yvette Lewis, Alando McIntyre, and Kele Nkhereanye, together with Nowak, present Coronavirus Haiku (2021), newly published by Kenning Editions, along with related haiku from outside the anthology, and talk about their life as “frontline workers” during the Covid-19 crisis in New York City, and their engagement with the Worker Writers School. They are joined by emcee Tanya Hollis, Interim Director of the Labor Archives and Research Center, San Francisco State University. This event was supported by the National Endowment for the Arts.
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The Poetry Center presents Nellie Wong and Genny Lim reading and in conversation. Wong reads works from Breakfast Lunch Dinner (Meridian Press Works, 2012), The Death of Long Steam Lady (West End Press, 1986), Stolen Moments (Chicory Blue Press, 1997), and Speaking for Myself (Chicory Blue Press, 2014). Lim reads new work along with poems from Kra! (Omerta Publications, 2016) and Paper Gods and Rebels (Ishmael Reed Publishing Co., 2013). The readings are followed by an extensive conversation in response to questions from the audience.
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The Poetry Center presents Oscar Bermeo and Barbara Jane Reyes reading and in conversation. Bermeo reads unpublished work. Reyes reads new unpublished work, and from her books For the City That Nearly Broke Me (Aztlan Libre Press, 2012), Diwata (BOA Editions, 2010), and To Love as Aswan (PAWA, Inc. Publications, 2015). Following her reading, Kuwentuhan (Talkstory), a short film produced by San Francisco State University’s Documentary Film Institute and edited by Daewon Kim is screened, with the film incorporating a reading by Reyes of Joy Harjo's poem "Perhaps The World Ends Here." Kuwentuhan (Talkstory) is a project of the Poetry Center and Barbara Jane Reyes, supported by the Creative Work Fund. The film is followed by a conversation between the poets and the audience.
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The Poetry Center presents three outstanding Bay Area writer-activists, reading and in conversation on the radical potential written in the margins of history. Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, renowned historian and activist (An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States, et al.), reads from Not "A Nation of Immigrants": Settler Colonialism, White Supremacy, and a History of Erasure and Exclusion (Beacon Press, 2021) and Amy Sonnie and James Tracy read from their newly updated Hillbilly Nationalists, Urban Race Rebels and Black Power: Interracial Solidarity in 1960s-70s New Left Organizing (Melville House, 2011/revised edition 2021). Alternating between their readings the writers engage in conversation with one another and the audience.
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The Poetry Center presents Tongo Eisen-Martin performing works from his book Someone's Dead Already (Bootstrap Press, 2015) along with new work which has appeared at SFMOMA's Open Space, and Jasmine Gibson reading from her chapbook Drapetomania (Commune Editions, 2016) and other unpublished works. Their readings are followed by a conversation between the poets and with the audience.