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The Poetry Center presents Alli Warren and Feliz Lucia Molina, reading from their work, at The Green Arcade in San Francisco. Warren reads two long poems, one as yet unpublished, and the other published as the chapbook Little Hill (The Elephants, 2018). Molina reads from her manuscript, Thundercastle. This event is the second of a two-evening program in The Poetry Center's In Common Writers Series, supported by a grant from the Walter & Elise Haas Fund.
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The Poetry Center presents a memorial tribute to Benjamin Hollander (1952–2016). Twenty-two poets, writers, artists, and friends come together to reminisce and to read from Hollander's books, including How To Read, Too (Leech Books, 1992), The Book of Who Are Was (Sun & Moon Press, 1997), Rituals of Truce and the Other Israeli (Parrhesia Press, 2004), Vigilance (Beyond Baroque Books, 2005), In the House Un-American (Clockroot Books/Interlink Publishing, 2013), Memoir American (Punctum Books, 2013), and his posthumously published work, The Letters of Carla, the letter b: A Mystery in Poetry (Chax Press, 2017).
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The Poetry Center and The Green Arcade co-present a tribute to Bill Berkson (1939–2016), hosted by McRoskey Mattress Co. Thirty poets, artists, and friends of Bill Berkson come together to reminisce and read poems and prose, from, among others of Berkson’s books, Lush Life (Z Press, 1984), Blue is the Hero (L Publications, 1976), Repeat After Me (with John Zurier, paintings, Gallery Paule Anglim, 2011), Portrait and Dream: New and Selected Poems (Coffee House Press, 2009), Our Friends Will Pass Among You Silently (The Owl Press, 2007), What’s Your Idea of a Good Time? Interviews and Letters 1977–1985 (with Bernadette Mayer, Tuumba Press, 2006), The Sweet Singer of Modernism & Other Art Writings 1985–2003 (Qua Books, 2004), Sudden Address: Selected Lectures 1981–2006 (Cuneiform Press, 2007), and For the Ordinary Artist: Short Reviews, Occasional Pieces and More (BlazeVox, 2010), as well as from the festshrift volume For Bill, Anything (Pressed Wafer, 2015). The program incorporates "School of Poets," a short video featuring Bill Berkson interviewed at his home, commissioned by Kenward Elmslie and appearing here courtesy of Citizen Film.
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The Poetry Center presents Brenda Iijima and Janice Lee, reading from new works. Brenda Iijima reads from unpublished work, including the play Daily Life in China and a new long poem, while Janice Lee reads from the manuscript of her unpublished novel, Imagine a Death. These readings are the second event in the first program inaugurating the In Common Writers Series, supported by a grant from the Walter & Elise Haas Fund.
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The Poetry Center presents Giancarlo Huapaya (with translator Ryan Greene), Omar Pimienta, and José Antonio Villarán, of Cardboard House Press/Cartonera Collective, reading from their work and conducting a collective experiment in exchange with the audience, then engaging in conversation regarding their poetry, the work of the press and bookmaking collective, and the cultural politics of translation. This is the first event of two in The Poetry Center’s 2019 Tripwire Cross-Cultural Poetics Series.
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The Poetry Center presents Denise Leto and Jennifer Bartlett, reading at The Green Arcade, San Francisco. Leto, with Rose Giannini co-reading, performs largely unpublished work, some of which is from her manuscript The Body Is a Wild Summons. Bartlett reads rom her book (A) Lullaby Without Any Music (Chax Press, 2012) and Hindrances of a Householder (Chax Press, 2018). Co-sponsored by The Green Arcade, this was the second in a two-evening program, as 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 Duncan McNaughton, reading from Tiny Windows (Auguste Press, 2014), among other work, and Bill Berkson, reading from earlier poems and then from Expect Delays (Coffee House Press, 2014), followed by the two poets conversing and responding to questions from the audience.
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The Poetry Center presents Feliz Lucia Molina, reading and in conversation with Alli Warren. Feliz Lucia Molina reads from an unpublished manuscript, intended as a sequel to her first book, Undercastle (Magic Helicopter Press, 2013). Molina's reading is followed by a conversation with Alli Warren, and in response to questions from the audience. This event is the first of a two-evening program in The Poetry Center's In Common Writers Series, funded in part by a grant from the Walter & Elise Haas Fund.
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The Poetry Center presents Forrest Gander, reading and in conversation. After opening with a reading from unpublished work by C.D. Wright, and a selection of poems by Latin American and Spanish poets (read in Spanish and in translation), Gander reads his own new work from Be With (New Directions, 2018) and from his earlier book, Science and Steepleflower, (New Directions, 1998). His reading is followed by a conversation in response to questions from the audience.
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The Poetry Center and The Green Arcade present Fred Moten and Nathaniel Mackey reading their poetry, along with Hafez Modirzadeh on alto saxophone, at the 3rd Floor, McRoskey Mattress Co., in San Francisco. Fred Moten reads from The Service Porch (Letter Machine Editions, 2016); Hafez Modirzadeh offers a brief solo performance; Nathaniel Mackey reads from Blue Fasa (New Directions, 2015), Whatsaid Serif (City Lights Books, 2001), and from manuscript. The evening culminates with Mackey and Moten performing their works in tandem.
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The Poetry Center and Litmus Press join forces to celebrate the publication of Hearing — the long-awaited second book in a series of collaborations by Lyn Hejinian and Leslie Scalapino organized around each of the five senses — with a collective reading of sections as selected by Lyn Hejinian from the book. The poets' first collaboration in the series, Sight, was published by Edge Books in 1999. Hejinian and Scalapino were nearing the completion of Hearing when Scalapino died in 2010. An all-star cast of participants read from Hearing: E. Tracy Grinnell, Michael Cross, Lindsay Choi, Simone White, Eric Falci, Eileen Myles, Renee Gladman, Myung Mi Kim, Judith Goldman, Tom White, and Lyn Hejinian. Their reading is preceded by Judith Goldman providing an interpretive introduction to the poem, and is followed by a conversation between the readers and in response to questions from the online audience. E. Tracy Grinnell, publisher of Litmus Press, opens the event, Rachael Wilson, also with the press, accompanies her, and subsequently guides the conversation following the collective reading.
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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, 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 Maryam Ivette Parhizkar, reading and in conversation with Kenyatta A.C. Hinkle. Parhizkar reads published work from Social Text Online, Poem-A-Day (Academy of American Poets, 2018), Precipice: Writing on the Edge (Counterpath Press, 2018), and Omniverse (2018), as well as unpublished work from manuscript. Her reading is followed by an extended conversation between Parhizkar, Hinkle, and the audience. This event is the first of a two-evening program in The Poetry Center's In Common Writers Series, supported by a grant from the Walter & Elise Haas Fund.
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The Poetry Center presents Morgan Parker and Charif Shanahan, reading and in conversation. Charif Shanahan reads poetry from his collection Into Each Room We Enter without Knowing (Southern Illinois University Press, 2017) as well as some newer work from manuscript. Morgan Parker reads from her books Other People's Comfort Keeps Me Up at Night (Switchback Books, 2015), There are More Beautiful Things Than Beyoncé (Tin House, 2017), and Magical Negro (Tin House, 2019), before reading some new work from manuscript. Following the readings, both writers engage in conversation with the audience.
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The Poetry Center presents Jim Dunn and Neeli Cherkovski, reading and in conversation. Dunn reads his poems from Convenient Hole (Pressed Wafer, 2005), Soft Launch (Bootstrap/Pressed Wafer, 2008), and from his unpublished manuscript Dreaming in Tongues. Cherkovski reads poems including selections from his book Elegy For my Beat Generation (Lithic Press, 2018) and from the manuscript of his forthcoming book Hyper (due 2019 from Lithic Press). Their readings are followed by a conversation with the audience.
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The Poetry Center, with support by the Sam Mazza Foundation, presents Mazza Writer in Residence Tatiana Luboviski-Acosta along with Daisy Zamora, reading and in conversation. Tatiana Luboviski-Acosta reads a new unpublished poem and their essay "A Film About Bleeding, Composed of Previously Discarded Fragments" (Open Space, 2018). Daisy Zamora reads from The Violent Foam (Curbstone Press, 2002) and La violenta espuma (Visor, 2017) as well as newer, unpublished poems, reading both in Spanish and in translations by George Evans. The readings are followed by a conversation with the audience.
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The Poetry Center presents Wanda Coleman reading from her book of poems, Mad Dog Black Lady (Black Sparrow Press,1979).