jewish poets
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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Verses," Candor is The Brightest Shield (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2014), Conversion Table (Mindmade Books, 2016), and unpublished work.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 presents Brontez Purnell and Bay Area friends Cisco Guzman, Mason J., and Melissa Merin, in a queer writers of color poetry reading and round table conversation. As Mazza Writer in Residence for Spring 2021, Purnell visited as a guest — with students of writing, cinema, and dance — in classes across the SF State campus, and offered two public performances: a solo reading and conversation, and this second, group event. For both these remote-access events, the emcee is TreVaughn Malik Roach-Carter. The Mazza Writer in Residency Program is supported by the Sam Mazza Foundation.
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The Poetry Center presents Charles Reznikoff, reading his poetry before an audience at San Francisco State University. He is introduced by his friend and fellow poet, George Oppen. This is the second of two events, a decade apart, where the two poet friends shared the stage for The Poetry Center. For that earlier event, February 19, 1963, both read from their books — Reznikoff from By the Waters of Manhattan, and Oppen from The Materials — at the time newly published, by New Directions/The San Francisco Review. Here, March 1974, Reznikoff reads nearly 60 poems from the span of his poetry that would soon be collected in the two-volume edition of his Complete Poems, 1918–1936, and 1937–1975, edited by Seamus Cooney for Black Sparrow Press, which appeared in 1976, the year of Reznikoff's death.
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The Poetry Center presents Cosmic Diaspora and Steve Dalachinsky, reading and in performance. Cosmic Diaspora (Jake Marmer, poetry; John Schott, guitar; and Joshua Horowitz, keyboard, accordion) opens with a set of songs shaped around poems by Marmer, paralleling immigration and science fiction. Steve Dalachinsky follows with an extended reading, much of it dedicated to musicians, from The Superintendent's Eye (Autonomedia/Unbearable Books, 2000), The Mantis (Iniquita Press, 2009), and works in manuscript.
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The Poetry Center presents David Meltzer and Jerome Rothenberg, reading together in what host Lewis MacAdams describes as a session of "ethnopoetics, the Jewish division." Both prolific poets, they each read a generous selection, mostly from their contemporaneous work. Meltzer reads from a range of his books and from manuscript, and Rothenberg opens with his adaptation/translation of a Seneca song as presented in his anthology Shaking the Pumpkin:Tradional Poetry of Indian North America (Anchor Doubleday, 1972) and reads from Poland/1931 (Unicorn Press, 1970, with a subsequent expanded edition from New Directions, 1974), among other work.
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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.
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The Poetry Center presents James Kass and Paul Flores, reading and in conversation, to celebrate the 21st anniversary of Youth Speaks. They read from manuscript, and performed from memory, poems that reflect on their time as founders and directors at Youth Speaks, which they launched in 1996 while still graduate students in the MFA Writing program at SF State. They discuss topics in between the poems, with their readings followed by a conversation with the audience.
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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 and the Departments of Modern Languages and Literatures, and Jewish Studies, present José Kozer reading poems in Spanish from Ánima (Tierra Firme, Fondo de Cultura Económica, Mexico City, 2002; Shearsman Books, 2011) followed by Norma Cole, Chris Daniels, and Steve Dickison reading different selections from Anima in English. Kozer also reads from Carece de causa (Ediciones Ultimo Reino, 1988). The reading is followed by extended remarks by Kozer in response to questions from the audience.
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The Poetry Center and City Lights Books co-present Pierre Joris, reading his translations and discussing the work and life of Paul Celan, upon the release of Breathturn into Timestead: The Collected Later Poetry of Paul Celan (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2014). The event features multimedia material assembled and presented by Nicole Peyrafitte. Joris responds to questions from the full-house audience, upstairs at City Lights Bookstore, San Francisco.
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Tyrone Williams presents the 34th annual George Oppen Memorial Lecture, at the Unitarian Center, San Francisco. The George Oppen Memorial Lecture is supported by the Dorothy A. Fowler Trust.