canadian writers
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The Poetry Center presents Daphne Marlatt, visiting from Vancouver, British Columbia, and Tom Raworth, from London, UK, who spent considerable time during the 1970s living with his family and teaching in the US, and was at the time resident in San Francisco. Each of the poets reads extended selections from their respective work. Marlatt reads from Our Lives (Truck Press, 1976) and from her epic poem Steveston (from Vancouver's longlived Talonbooks, 1974). Raworth reads from a span of his books, including Lion, Lion (from Asa Benveniste's Trigram Press, 1970), Common Sense (Zephyrus Image, in Healdsburg, CA), the then newly-publlished Logbook (Poltroon Press, 1976), illustrated by Frances Butler, printed by Alastair Johnston, in Berkeley, and The Mask (Poltroon Press, also new in 1976). The poets are introduced by Poetry Center director Lewis MacAdams, with the program taking place in the erstwhile Barbary Coast Room of the César Chavez Student Union at San Francisco State University.
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The Poetry Center presents Margaret Atwood, in her first Bay Area appearance, visiting San Francisco State from her home in Toronto, to read her poems, many of which appear in her book of that same year, Two-Headed Poems (Houghton Mifflin, 1978). This was Atwood's eighth book of poetry, following a then-recent Selected Poems 1965–75 (Houghton Mifflin, 1976). She reads to a full-house audience in the erstwhile Barbary Coast Room, César Chavez Student Center, after being introduced by Poetry Center director Lewis MacAdams. Atwood follows her reading by asking for questions from the audience, with plenty of ironic repartée ensuing on the way things are done in Canada.
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The Poetry Center presents Michael Ondaatje, visiting the Bay Area from his home in Toronto, Canada, in a reading at New College of California, San Francisco. Ondaatje reads a wide selection of poems, many of which would have been available in There's a Trick with a Knife I'm Learning to Do: Poems, 1963–1978 (W.W. Norton, 1979) and in his subsequent collection, Secular Love (Coach House Press, 1984; Norton, 1985). Additionally, he reads a selection of passages from his then recent memoir, Running in the Family (W.W. Norton, 1982). The poet is introduced by Jim Hartz, director of The Poetry Center, for a program copresented by the New College Poetics Program and The Poetry Center, San Francisco State University.
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The Poetry Center, as the inaugural event in the Leslie Scalapino 21st Century Innovative Writers Series, presents M. NourbeSe Philip, at McRoskey Mattress Co., San Francisco, in performance and in conversation. Philip reads and performs work from Zong! (Wesleyan University Press, 2008). The reading is followed by a conversation with the audience. The evening was co-sponsored by The Green Arcade. The annual series is supported by the Leslie Scalapino-O Books Fund.