drugs
Showing 19 items.
-
The Poetry Center presents Allen Ginsberg and Herbert Huncke reading from their works.
-
The Poetry Center presents Bill Berkson, Jim Carroll, and Anne Waldman, reading their work at San Francisco State University. Introductions are by Poetry Center director Lewis MacAdams, who notes that Waldman is being added to the program as originally announced. Berkson, as editor of Big Sky magazine and books, one of several small poetry presses out of Bolinas, CA, was a publisher for both Carroll and Waldman. Both from New York City and the scene around The Poetry Project at St. Marks Church, they were living briefly in Bolinas, the small coastal town north of San Francisco that from the mid-1960s on attracted a good number of poets and other artists. Berkson and MacAdams were each more long-term transplants, also via New York, to Bolinas.
-
The Poetry Center presents Brontez Purnell, Mazza Writer in Residence for Spring 2021, in the first of two public events featured in his weeklong residency. The prolific and astoundingly versatile writer and artist (musician, dancer, filmmaker, fiction writer and poet) visited as a guest in classes across the SF State campus—talking with students of writing, cinema, and dance. For this solo reading from his home in Oakland, Purnell reads from his newly published book, 100 Boyfriends (MCD Books, Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2021). He is introduced and joined in conversation by TreVaughan Malik Roach-Carter. The Mazza Writer in Residence program is supported by the Sam Mazza Foundation.
-
The Poetry Center presents Amy Berkowitz and Caren Beilin, reading and in conversation. Berkowitz reads from her book-length lyric essay Tender Points (Timeless, Infinite Light, 2015/Nightboat Books, 2019) and an excerpt from a novel-in-progress. Beilin reads from her memoir Blackfishing the IUD (Wolfman Books, 2019), which incorporates testimonies from other women. The readings are followed by a conversation with the audience. This is the first of two events in a double-program in The Poetry Center’s In Common Reading Series, supported by the Walter & Elise Haas Fund.
-
The Poetry Center presents novelist-writer Darius James, and Val Jeanty, Haitian electronica composer-percussionist, in performance at The Lab in San Francisco. James performs excerpts from the newly issued edition of his novel Negrophobia: An Urban Parable (New York Review of Books, 2019), and from newer works in manuscript, all accompanied by Jeanty, electronic percussion. This performance is the second of a three-evening program in The Poetry Center's In Common Writers Series, supported by a grant from the Walter & Elise Haas Fund.
-
The Poetry Center and City Lights Books co-present a memorial tribute to David Meltzer, at San Francisco State University. Steve Dickison opens, with Garrett Caples as emcee, introducing Lawrence Ferlinghetti (via recording), Julie Rogers, George Herms, Jack Hirschman, Jerome Rothenberg, Marina Lazzara, Sunnylyn Thibodeaux, Michael McClure, and Clark Coolidge, all of whom come together to pay tribute, read from their own work, and from Meltzer's books of poetry, including David's Copy: The Selected Poems of David Meltzer (Penguin, 2005), Luna (Black Sparrow, 1970), Beat Thing (La Alameda Press, 2004), and a poem written by Meltzer for the 2011 Theo Saunders Sextet album Intergeneration. The event also features several recordings of David Meltzer reading his work at City Lights Bookstore. Photo, left-right: Sheppard Powell, Jack Hirschman, George Herms, and Clark Coolidge, courtesy Richard Friedman. Note: audio recording only, with apologies for distortion and irregular audio levels.
-
The Poetry Center presents Dennis Cooper and Eileen Myles reading at McRoskey Mattress Co., San Francisco. Dennis Cooper reads his early story "My Mark," included in the New Narrative anthology Writers Who Love Too Much: New Narrative Writing 1977-1997, edited by Dodie Bellamy and Kevin Killian (Nightboat Books, 2017). Eileen Myles reads an older poem along with new poems in manuscript form before reading from her book Afterglow (a dog memoir) (Grove Press, 2017). This event is co-sponsored by The Poetry Center and The Green Arcade, in conjunction with Communal Presence: New Narrative Writing Today, a conference held at UC Berkeley and related venues, October 13-15, 2017, organized and convened by Daniel Benjamin, Chris Chen, Lyn Hejinian, and Eric Sneathen.
-
The Poetry Center presents Edward Dorn, reading from new poetry. Dorn's reading is in two parts. He begins with a passage from Book IV of Gunslinger, titled "Idling With Observation and Song," which he notes is not exactly as it will appear in Book IV, as the parts of Gunslinger are collected for publication shortly after the date of this reading (Wingbow Press, 1975). He then reads the whole of the book Recollections of Gran Apacheria (Turtle Island Foundation, 1974). This work had just been published, in comic book format with cover and interior art my Michael Myers, with publisher Bob Callahan introducing Dorn, for The Poetry Center at San Francisco State University.
-
The Poetry Center presents Garrett Caples and Julian Talamantez Brolaski reading and in conversation. Garrett Caples reads new poems in manuscript as well as poems from Power Ballads (Wave Books, 2016). Julian Talamantez Brolaski reads from Advice for Lovers (City Lights, 2012) a new chapbook, Come Correct (fivehundred places, 2018), and new work from manuscript. The reading is followed by a conversation in response to questions from the audience.
-
The Poetry Center presents James Broughton and Helen Adam, presenting their poetry at a special reading held at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, with their friend and peer Robert Duncan on hand to introduce each of them. Broughton reads an extended set of poems, drawing on Erogeny: A Geographical Expedition (1976) and Odes for Odd Occasions (1977), both from Manroot Press, along with selections from Seeing the Light (City Lights Books, 1977), and from The Androgyne Journal. Adam, visiting from New York City, where she moved after leaving San Francisco (the move in part was in order to work on a New York production of her ballad opera San Francisco's Burning), reads and sings for a vigorous program of her postmodern ballads and songs, from Turn Again to Me and Other Poems (Kulchur Foundation, 1977) and earlier works.
-
The Poetry Center presents John Wieners, reading his poems from Ace of Pentacles (James F. Carr and Robert A. Wilson, 1964) and The Hotel Wentley Poems (The Auerhahn Press, 1958), and engaging in conversation with Robert Duncan. The poets appear in front of the Conservatory of Flowers in Golden Gate Park, then in the fire-scarred room of the former Hotel Wentley, on Polk Street, in which Wieners eight years before had written in one week his series of poems bearing the hotel's name. Wieners was in San Francisco to attend the Berkeley Poetry Conference at UC Berkeley this same month, and the film marks his first return to San Francisco after leaving for New York, then Boston, shortly after composing the poems of that first brief book.
-
The Poetry Center presents Spring 2019 Mazza Writer in Residence Juliana Delgado Lopera and Joseph Cassara, reading and in conversation. Delgado Lopera reads from the beginning chapter of her highly anticipated multilingual first novel Fiebre Tropicale (forthcoming from The Feminist Press at CUNY, 2020). Cassara then reads a scene from the middle, and one from end of his award winning first novel, The House of Impossible Beauties (HarperCollins Publishers, 2018). Afterwards, a conversation ensues between the artists, as well as with the audience.
-
The Poetry Center presents Kathy Acker, accompanied in her presentation by Rae Armantrout and Kit Robinson, and Jim Gustafson, hailing from Detroit though at the time resident in the Bay Area. Acker reads from a new work she says is "dedicated to San Francisco" — "Eat Your Heart Out" is entangled in the throes of an obsessive relationship between Janis Joplin and James Dean. Acker then reads, from manuscript, a section from what she calls "a very long and boring book," Kathy Goes to Haiti. Gustafson follows her reading, often in a mix of voices, and singing from newly spun poems. ("I expected Kathy to be dirtier, so I brought all my dirty poems.") The writers are introduced by Lewis MacAdams, director of The Poetry Center, and are onstage at San Francisco State University, in the César Chavez Student Center.
-
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).
-
The Poetry Center presents Orlando White, recipient of the Poetry Center Book Award for LETTERRS (Nightboat Books, 2015). White reads with award judge Patrick James Dunagan, who reads from Drops of Rain / Drops of Wine (Spuyten Duyvil, 2016) and Book of Kings (Bird & Beckett Books, 2015). The poets' readings are followed by an extensive conversation with the audience focused on questions of poetics.
-
The Poetry Center presents poets Q. R. Hand Jr., Genny Lim, and Juan Felipe Herrera, presenting their poetry at the South of Market Cultural Center (subsequently SOMArts), San Francisco. Hand and Lim each read solo from their work, and Herrera is joined in his performance by Troca, a Bay Area grupo featuring a mix of percussion, bass, and guitar. The poets, who each offer extended sets, are introduced by Poetry Center director Jim Hartz, who thanks poet Wilfredo Castaño of the South of Market Cultural Center, along with the San Francisco Arts Commission, for the community-centered collaboration with The Poetry Center.
-
The Poetry Center presents Tom Clark and Lewis MacAdams, reading their poems written solo and in collaboration. Clark reads many poems, drawing from two collections, Suite (read from manuscript) and Blue (Black Sparrow Press, 1974). MacAdams reads from a wide swathe of poems in manuscript, followed by the two poets reading from their collaboratively written Expeditions by Lewis & Clark. Both poets were living in Bolinas, California, at the time of this event. Kathleen Fraser, Poetry Center director, makes the introductions, at San Francisco State University.
-
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.
-
The Poetry Center presents Trace Peterson and Max Wolf Valerio reading and in conversation. Peterson reads poems in manuscript, and one poem from Troubling the Line: Trans and Genderqueer Poetry and Poetics (Nightboat Books, 2013). Valerio reads selections from The Criminal: The Invisibility of Parallel Forces (EOAGH, 2017). The readings are followed by a conversation between the two poets and their responses to questions from the audience.