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The Poetry Center presents Hannah Kezema, reading from the manuscript of her forthcoming book Case Files, and Angel Dominguez, reading from Black Lavender Milk, RoseSunWater, and the manuscript. of DESGRACIADOS (The Collected Letters), followed by the writers responding to questions from the audience. As The Poetry Center's 7th Mazza Writer in Residence, Dominguez was guest writer in classes across the SF State campus during the week of October 11, 2021. They also presented two public events, this first along with Kezema, an early afternoon reading and conversation at The Poetry Center. The Mazza Writer in Residence program is supported by the Sam Mazza Foundation.
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The Poetry Center presents Angel Dominguez and Ronaldo V. Wilson, in conversation with one another then followed by each poet reading work from forthcoming books—Dominguez from DESGRACIADO (The Collected Letters) and Wilson from Virgil Kills. As The Poetry Center's 7th Mazza Writer in Residence, Dominguez was guest writer in classes across the SF State campus during the week of October 11, 2021, and presented two public events, of which this is the latter. The Mazza Writer in Residence program is supported by the Sam Mazza Foundation.
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The Poetry Center presents Anthony Cody and Chaun Webster, in conjunction with the Howard Zinn Book Fair, held at City College San Francisco, Mission Center, on Valencia Street. The thematic for the 2023 Howard Zinn Book Fair is "Against Amnesia," which the poets take up in the delivery of their work, continuing into a conversation in response to questions and comments from the audience (poets Oscar Bermeo, Barbara Jane Reyes, and Raquel Roque Salas Rivera among them). Cody reads from his books Borderland Apocrypha (Omnidawn, 2020) and The Rendering (Omnidawn, 2023), and Webster from Wail Song (subtitled Wading in the Water at the End of the World, Black Ocean, 2023). As noted, the event takes places at 10:00 am, as one of multiple opening events for the day-long annual book fair. Steve Dickison introduces the poets.
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The Poetry Center presents Audre Lorde Creative Writing Award-winner Elizabeth Rosas and Award-finalists Samantha Cosentino, Lillian Giles, and Bradley Penner (the latter opting not to present his poetry), reading and in conversation. The emcee, for this first of many Poetry Center remote-access programs to take place during the COVID-19 pandemic, is Poetry Center staff and MFA student TreVaughn Roach-Carter. Bradley Penner, declining the invitation to read his poems, instead presents a statement in solidarity with the George Floyd Uprising in response to racialized violence and structural social injustice, and in support with black lives and Black Lives Matter-related activism. Giles, Cosentino, and Rosas each read their poems and then speak with each other and respond to questions from the audience.
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The Poetry Center, in conjunction with Black Freighter Press, presents a celebration of this welcome new Bay Area poetry press, newly launched by San Francisco’s at the time recently-named Poet Laureate, Tongo Eisen-Martin, and Alie Jones. Featured poets include Mahogany L. Browne, Christopher Malec (read by Alie Jones), Josiah Luis Alderete, and, reading from the final book of beloved late poet Q. R. Hand Jr., former San Francisco Poet Laureate Kim Shuck and Tony Aldonado. Eisen-Martin provides introductions to the poets, with a welcome to the audience and questions aired by Tonya M. Foster, as emcee. This program was supported in part by the National Endowment for the Arts.
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The Poetry Center presents Bob Kaufman's Collected Poems, a celebration taking place six months following the poet's 95th birthday—with video contributions and online appearances by a myriad of mostly Bay Area poets, musicians, and artists in honor of the poet Bob Kaufman (1925–1986) and the recent publication of The Collected Poems of Bob Kaufman by City Lights Books, edited by Neeli Cherkovski, Raymond Foye, and Tate Swindell. Contributing musicians for the event: Bruce Ackley and Aurora Josephson (performing Steve Lacy’s songs to Bob Kaufman's poems), Brittany Biala, David Boyce, Lewis Jordan, Hafez Modirzadeh, and Francis Wong. Contributing poets and artists: Josiah Luis Alderete, Will Alexander, Arlene Biala, James Cagney, MK Chavez, Neeli Cherkovski, Dewey Crumpler, Kwadwo Duane Deterville, Tongo Eisen-Martin, Raymond Foye, C.S. Giscombe, Leticia Hernández-Linares, Jack Hirschman, Genny Lim, Sarah Menefee, Alejandro Murguía, Jevohn Tyler Newsome, Kim Shuck, Tate Swindell with Parker Kaufman, Sunnylyn Thibodeaux, and Michael Warr.
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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 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 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 Cristina Rivera Garza and Kit Schluter, reading and in conversation. Schluter reads three stories from his series titled Cartoons. Rivera Garza reads an array of her poems, from early and more recent work, translated into English from their originals in Spanish; these include poems from her book Grieving: Dispatches from a Wounded Country, translated by Sarah Booker (The Feminist Press at CUNY, 2020), and poems in progress. The writers then respond to questions from each other and from emcee, Carolina de Robertis. This program was supported by the National Endowment for the Arts.
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The Poetry Center presents Douglas Kearney and Tatiana Luboviski-Acosta, reading and in conversation. Douglas Kearney performs works from his books Buck Studies (Fence Books, 2016) and Someone Took They Tongues (Subito Press, 2016), as well as new work, plus an improvised piece incorporating lines out of books from Poetry Center shelves (Lawrence Raab, Mark Jarman, Maude Meehan, Artie Gold, Rochelle Owens, and the North Coast Review) with Kearney's own Buck Studies and Mess and Mess and (Noemi Press, 2015). Tatiana Luboviski-Acosta reads new works and poetry from her book The Easy Body (Timeless, Infinite Light, 2017). The readings are followed by an extended conversation with the audience.
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The Poetry Center presents James Cagney and Josiah Luis Alderete, reading and in conversation. Cagney reads new poetry, along with poems from his Pen Oakland Josephine Miles Award-winning book Black Steel Magnolias In The Hour Of Chaos Theory (Nomadic Press, 2018). Alderete reads a number of poems in manuscript (prior to publication of his book Baby Axolotls & Old Pochos, from Black Freighter Press, 2021), before the poets respond to questions from the audience.
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The Poetry Center presents jayy dodd, whose book The Black Condition ft. Narcissus (Nightboat Books, 2019) — "an irreverently tender profile of Black trans life surviving and thriving during contemporary political turmoil" — was selected to receive the Poetry Center Book Award. She reads from that book and from other poems, and is joined by award judge Lourdes Figueroa, who reads from her own poems. Following their readings, the poets engage in conversation, together with emcee, Tatiana Luboviski-Acosta.
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The Poetry Center presents poets John Yau and Andrew Joron, reading and in conversation. Joron reads from recent work, as does Yau, the latter from the manuscript of what would be his book Genghis Khan on Drums (Omnidawn Publishing, 2021). Following their readings, the poets respond to questions between themselves and from the audience. The writers are introduced by Carlos Quinteros III, emcee for the event. This reading was the first of two programs featuring Yau, appearing remotely from his home in New York City, and the final program sequence in The Poetry Center's In Common Writers Series.
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The Poetry Center presents Mazza Writer in Residence for Fall 2023 Josiah Luis Alderete and Mimi Tempestt, reading their poetry and in conversation with one another and the audience. The poets are introduced by Steve Dickison and Soledad Carrillo (a.k.a. soledad con carne) at The Poetry Center, San Francisco State University. The fifth poetic element in this and all dimensions, multi-discipilinary artist, and educator, Mimi Tempestt reads from her new book of poetry The Delicacy of Embracing Spirals (City Lights Books, 2023). Long-time Mission poeta and co-founder of the bookstore and portal of culture and community, Medicine for Nightmares, Alderete reads works from manuscript and earlier publications. After the readings, the two poets engage in conversation about the importance of place, poetic lineage, and their personal histories with each other and their audience. The Mazza Writer in Residence program is supported by the Sam Mazza Foundation.
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The Poetry Center presents Kenyatta A.C. Hinkle and Maryam Ivette Parhizkar, reading and in conversation. Maryam Ivette Parhizkar opens, reading an assortment of her poems as published at The Brooklyn Rail, OmniVerse, Gramma, and Gesture, as well as unpublished work. Kenyatta A.C. Hinkle reads extended excerpts from her forthcoming debut book SIR (Litmus Press, 2019). Their readings are followed by a conversation with the audience. This event continues is the second evening of a two-night 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, together with the Paul K. Longmore Institute on Disability, presents Krip-Hop Nation, a worldwide association of artists with disabilities. In addition to founder Leroy F. Moore Jr. and co-founder Keith Jones, this event presents three outstanding artists affiliated with Krip-Hop Nation — Toni Hickman, DJ Quad, and Wheelchair Sports Camp — joining in performance and conversation. Dr. Dawn-Elissa Fischer, who writes and consults about popular culture, policy and political activism with a focus on antiracism, social media and education in a global context, kindly joins the program as moderator. Founded in 2007 by Leroy F. Moore Jr. in Berkeley, California, the Krip-Hop Nation movement campaigns for equality for people with disabilities worldwide, with concerts, tours, workshops and much more. In 2020, four Krip-Hop Nation artists received Emmy Award accolades for Outstanding Music Direction on the Paralympic documentary film Rising Phoenix.
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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, together with Women and Gender Studies, Latina/Latino Studies, and Africana Studies at San Francisco State University, presents celebrated Afro-Cuban poet Nancy Morejón, reading her poetry and engaging with questions from the full-house audience. After opening remarks by Steve Dickison of The Poetry Center, Jillian Sandell, chair of Women and Gender Studies, introduces bookseller and activist Tony Ryan, who invites the audience to other local appearances by Morejón and alerts the audience to the newly arrived book Homing Instincts / Querencias (Cubana Books, 2014), a bilingual collection of Morejón's work with translations by Pamela Carmel. Sandell then returns and introduces Nancy Morejón together with translator Barbara Paschke, who reads Morejón's poems in English. This program was one of several local appearances by Morejón, on a rare visit to the Bay Area, and took place as the first in a series of lectures sponsored by Women and Gender Studies for Fall 2014.
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The Poetry Center's New Voice Series was initiated in Spring 2021 as an annual reading series that pairs a poet alum of SF State, a current SF State graduate student poet in Creative Writing, and a current undergraduate student poet at SF State (any major), to each read their work and engage in conversation with one another and their audience. For the premiere New Voice program, poet Dan Lau appears along with student poets (selected by Poetry Center student staff) Edward Gunawan and Carlos Osoria. They are joined by emcee, Carlos Quinteros III, with each poet reading briefly followed by a conversation between them and in response to questions from one another, Quinteros, and the audience.
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The Poetry Center presents the 2023 New Voice Series reading, featuring Meliza Bañales with Carlos Quinteros III and Hilary Cruz Mejía. The New Voice Series, here in its third annual iteration, features a poet alum of San Francisco State University, a current graduate student poet, and an undergraduate student (any major), with selections made by Poetry Center student staff. Cruz Mejía performs mostly new work (in both English and Spanish), Quinteros III reads from his MFA thesis, and Bañales reads from her books Roōt for the Underdog (Dodsworth Books, 2022) and Say it With Your Whole Mouth (Monkey Press, 2003). The readings are followed by a discussion among the poets, facilitated by Bañales, and in response to a question from the audience.
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The Poetry Center presents the New Voice Series, in its second annual iteration. The series features a poet alumnus of SF State, in combination with a current SF State Creative Writing graduate student poet, and, for this year, two undergraduate student poets at SF State, all reading their work and engaging in conversation. Participants in the New Voice Series are selected by Poetry Center student staff. For this second-year event in the series, Raul Ruiz appears as featured poet, along with Zêdan Xelef, Alexiz Angel Romero, and Bianca White. The poets are introduced, alternately, by Brent Jensen and Tatiana Luboviski-Acosta. The poets' readings are followed by a conversation in response to questions from their audience.
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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.
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The Poetry Center presents Raquel Salas Rivera and Vanessa Angélica Villarreal, at Moe’s Books in Berkeley. Salas Rivera reads, in Spanish and in English, from the manuscript of his forthcoming book antes que isla es volcán / before island is volcano. Villarreal reads from Beast Meridian (Noemi Press, 2017) and "Root Future," written for an anthology organized around the theme 'Women of Color Write the Future.' This event was the second of two evenings in The Poetry Center's In Common Writers Series, supported by the Walter & Elise Haas Fund.
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The Poetry Center presents three outstanding Bay Area writer-activists, reading and in conversation on the radical potential written in the margins of history. Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, renowned historian and activist (An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States, et al.), reads from Not "A Nation of Immigrants": Settler Colonialism, White Supremacy, and a History of Erasure and Exclusion (Beacon Press, 2021) and Amy Sonnie and James Tracy read from their newly updated Hillbilly Nationalists, Urban Race Rebels and Black Power: Interracial Solidarity in 1960s-70s New Left Organizing (Melville House, 2011/revised edition 2021). Alternating between their readings the writers engage in conversation with one another and the audience.
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The Poetry Center presents Mazza Writer in Residence Tatiana Luboviski-Acosta, in performance with Kyle Parker. This event concludes their weeklong residency with The Poetry Center at San Francisco State University, supported by a grant from the Sam Mazza Foundation. The performance features four poems by Luboviski-Acosta, from an unpublished work in progress.
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The Poetry Center presents The Black Aesthetic, including curatorial members Jamal Batts, Ryanaustin Dennis, and Leila Weefur, together with contributors Shah Noor Hussein, Christian Johnson, and Ismail Muhammad, each reading and in conversation. After an introduction to the project, the writers each read their contributions to The Black Aesthetic Season II (Wolfman Books, 2018). The readings are followed by a conversation with the audience.
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The Poetry Center presents Tim Z. Hernandez, reading and in conversation with Marguerite Muñoz and René Juarez-Vazquez. Hernandez tells several stories and reads from All They Will Call You (The University of Arizona Press, 2018), sharing with his audience some of the research that went into the making of his documentary novel. After his presentation, Hernandez, Muñoz, and Juarez-Vazquez engage in conversation with one another and with the audience. This event is the first of a two-event 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 Vanessa Angélica Villarreal and Raquel Salas Rivera, reading and in conversation. Villarreal reads poems from her book Beast Meridian (Noemi Press, 2017). Salas Rivera reads, in Spanish and in English, from his manuscript La bella Crisis. The readings are followed by a conversation with the audience. This event was the first of two evenings in The Poetry Center's In Common Writers Series, supported by the Walter & Elise Haas Fund.
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The Poetry Center presents Wendy Trevino and Zaina Alsous, reading and in conversation. Poetry Center Mazza Writer in Residence for Fall 2020, Trevino reads poems from her first full-length book, Cruel Fiction (Commune Editions, 2018), with more recent work, from her home in San Francisco. Alsous, appearing from southern Florida, reads from her Etel Adnan Award-winning collection of poetry, A Theory of Birds (University of Arkansas Press, 2019), and shares a new unpublished poem from manuscript, “Apologies to the People in Yemen.” After the two poets read, they engage in an extended conversation, responding to questions from one another, the audience, and the emcee of this event, alex cruse. Supported by the Sam Mazza Foundation.