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The Poetry Center presents Andrew Maxwell and Hank Lazer reading and in conversation. Andrew Maxwell reads from "Utility Verses," Candor is The Brightest Shield (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2014), Conversion Table (Mindmade Books, 2016), and unpublished work. Hank Lazer reads from Book of 10 Line Poems, The New Spirit (Singing Horse Press, 2005), Poems Hidden in Plain View (Presses universitaires de Rouen, 2016), N18 (Singing Horse Press, 2012), and Brush Mind: At Hand (GreencupBooks, 2016). The readings are followed by a conversation with the audience.
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The Poetry Center and the Museum of the African Diaspora co-present artist Asya Abdrahman and writers Faith Adiele and Tonya M. Foster, each presenting their work then responding to questions from the audience. The program, titled "Navigating Space for Women," took place at MoAD, San Francisco, within the context of the exhibition "Where Is Here" (curated by Jacqueline Francis and Kathy Zarur) and in celebration of International Women's Day, and was co-sponsored by MoAD and the Poetry Center. 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 Camille T. Dungy and Javier Zamora, reading and in conversation. Camille Dungy reads poems from Trophic Cascade (Wesleyan University Press, 2017) and excerpts from her prose work Guidebook to Relative Strangers (W.W. Norton, 2017). Javier Zamora reads poems from Unaccompanied (Copper Canyon Press, 2017). The readings are followed by a conversation with the audience.
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The Poetry Center presents David Lau reading from his forthcoming book, Still Dirty (AK Press/Commune Editions, 2016), and Ed Pavlic reading from Let’s Let That Are Not Yet: INFERNO (Fence Books, 2015), followed by questions and conversation with the audience. NOTE: The video recording was lost in the back-up process, so this event is represented via audio recording only. Our apologies.
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Gary Snyder, after reading from his Cold Mountain (Han Shan) Poems and his poem "Axe Handles," with Wang Ping reading her Chinese translations, talks about the genesis and nature of these works. Wang Ping writes: "In this video, Gary read some of his Hanshan poems, and I read the translation [to Chinese], then we went on to his legendary 'Axe Handles' poem, and the translation. We discussed how the poem was made, bringing many centuries of cultural entanglement, including Book of Songs from Confucius era, Ezra Pound and Arthur Waley's translations, Lu Ji's Wen Fu, and how it all came together at Kitkitdizze, Gary's homestead, at the foothills of the Sierras, where generations of beat poetry, environmental and deep ecology movements were birthed and flourished. This video was filmed by Steve Dickison, director of The Poetry Center, SFSU, which sponsored my poetry reading event at the Medicine for Nightmares bookstore on 11-11-21, which allowed me to make the trip to Kitkitdizze." Video courtesy of Wang Ping and Gary Snyder.
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The Poetry Center presents Jerome Rothenberg, reading and in conversation. Rothenberg reads works from several of his books, including Flower World Variations (revised, expanded edition, The Operating System, 2017), Eye of Witness: A Jerome Rothenberg Reader (Black Widow Press, 2013), China Notes & the Treasures of Dunhuang (Ahadada Books, 2006), and A Field on Mars: Divagations & Autovariations, Poems 2000-2015 (PURH, 2015), plus a new poem and a poem previously published in the online magazine Jacket2. The reading is followed by a conversation with the audience.
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The Poetry Center presents, as the final program in its two-year In Common Writers Series, John Yau and Claudia La Rocco, each reading from new work and followed by a discussion, facilitated by emcee, Brandon Brown, among themselves and in response to their remote-access audience. La Rocco, from her home in Oakland, reads from her book Quartet (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2020), and Yau follows, reading from his home in New York City from the manuscript of what would be published as Genghis Kahn on Drums (Omnidawn Publishing, 2021).
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The Poetry Center presents poets Katy Bohinc, reading from Dear Alain (Tender Buttons Press, 2014) and Paul Ebenkamp reading from The Louder the Room the Darker the Screen (Timeless, Infinite Light, 2015) and poems in manuscript, followed by a conversation between the poets and questions from the audience.
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The Poetry Center and the SFSU Labor Archives and Research Center co-present "Working with Others: Convivial Research (Revisited)," a panel with Manuel (Manolo) Callahan, Stefano Harney, and Tonika Sealy Thompson, moderated by Steve Dickison, at the third annual Howard Zinn Book Fair, at City College of San Francisco, Mission Campus. Note: the recording begins in medias res.
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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 May-lee Chai and Junse Kim, reading and in conversation. May-lee Chai reads excerpts from her story "Ghost Festivals," from her newly published collection, Useful Phrases for Immigrants (Blair, 2018). Junse Kim reads excerpts from a larger work in progress (part of which was published in Fourteen Hills, 2012). Their readings are followed by an extended conversation with the audience. This program was supported in part by the National Endowment for the Arts. Note: video exists only for May-lee Chai's portion of this program; the remainder is audio only.
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In celebration of Kelsey Street Press's 45th Anniversary, The Poetry Center, together with Kelsey Street Press and The Green Arcade, presents Mei-mei Berssenbrugge, Andrea Abi-Karam, and Ching-In Chen, reading at McRoskey Mattress Co., in San Francisco. Following Patricia Dienstfrey and Rena Rosenwasser, co-founders of the press, recalling its history and several of the authors it has presented, notably Kathleen Fraser and Barbara Guest, Rosenwasser introduces Berssenbrugge. Berssenbrugge reads from NEST (Kelsey Street Press, 1998) and from her forthcoming book A Treatise on Stars (New Directions, 2020). Mg Roberts, of Kelsey Street Press, introduces Abi-Karam, who reads from their book EXTRATRANSMISSION (Kelsey Street Press, 2019). Roberts then introduces Chen, who reads from their book recombinant (Kelsey Street Press, 2017) to close the event. The program was supported in part 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 this landmark 1977 recording of a group reading by eight West Coast Asian American and Asian Pacific Island American poets. Reading from their work in sequence are: Al Robles, Lou Syquia, George Leong, Lane Nishikawa, Janice Mirikitani, Alan Chong Lau, Laureen Mar, and Garrett Hongo. The event, billed as "Tempest in a Teapot," was sponsored by the Department of Asian American Studies, in the College of Ethnic Studies at San Francisco State, and hosted by Professor Jeffery Paul Chan. Each poet is introduced in turn by Chan, with the event taking place at San Francisco State University.
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The Poetry Center presents Wang Ping and Ava Koohbor, reading from their poetry, in what is the first formal event at the newly opened bookstore and gallery Medicine for Nightmares, on 24th Street in San Francisco's Mission neighborhood. Koohbor reads from Death Under Construction (Impart Ink/Ugly Duckling Presse, 2020); Wang reads from My Name Is Immigrant (Hanging Loose Press, 2020) and unpublished work, followed by both writers responding to questions from the audience. Josiah Luis Alderete welcomes the audience and Steve Dickison introduces the event and poets. Program supported by the National Endowment for the Arts.