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The Poetry Center presents Ai, reading poetry from her book Cruelty, published by Houghton Mifflin in 1973, and from as yet uncollected work.
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The Poetry Center presents Amiri Baraka, talking to students on revolution, political organizing, and the function of art in society, followed by a reading from new poems. Baraka reads from Hard Facts 1973–75 (People's War, Newark, 1976), and other recent work, at the César Chavez Student Center, San Francisco State University.
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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 Maria Damon, delivering what was the 29th annual George Oppen Memorial Lecture. Damon takes up the consideration of the making of works other than poems, by persons other than poets, as pursuing a poetics that gets denied serious study. Taking potter and writer M. C. Richards' statement "Poets are not the only poets" (Centering: in Pottery, Poetry, and the Person, Wesleyan University Press, 1964) as title of her talk, Damon moves from her being drawn to both "micropoetries" and "macropoetries" in her study and writings into a reading of Allen Ginsberg's poem "Howl" as an instance of confounding of human and animal voices, with the poem's reiterated "who... who... who..." as sounding that borders on that of the beast.