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The Poetry Center, in conjunction with the Tripwire Cross-Cultural Poetics Series, presents a Memorial Tribute to Etel Adnan, at Medicine for Nightmares, their gallery space, in San Francisco. Participants in the program include, in order of presentation: David Buuck, Zaina Alsous, Naz Cuguoğlu, Fady Joudah, Stefania Pandolfo, and Camille Roy, with Steve Dickison providing introductions.
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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 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opens, reading an assortment of her poems as published at The Brooklyn Rail, OmniVerse, Gramma, and Gesture, as well as unpublished work.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, in collaboration with The Wattis Institute, presents Norma Cole and Adrian Lürssen, reading their own poetry and work written in collaboration. Diego Villalobos welcomes the audience and speaks to the exhibition within the gallery space: Ana Jotta: Never the Less (the Portuguese artist's first public exhibition in the United States was curated by Anthony Huberman and Miguel Wandschneider, and organized by Villalobos). Steve Dickison of The Poetry Center introduces the poets, and alludes to recent troubling events unfolding in Israel/Palestine. The poets' selection they present from their work is, in part, in response to these circumstances, as well as to the fact of their reading in the context of The Wattis among Jotta's visual works.
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The Poetry Center presents Youmna Chlala and Ken Chen, reading and in conversation from their home in Brooklyn, NY. Chlala reads from her book The Paper Camera (Litmus Press, 2019), poetry accompanied by Super-8 film stills from her series Notes on Leaving and Arriving (2014/2017). Chen reads from the manuscript of his new work in progress, Death Star, and shares the challenges and process of working on the project. This event was supported by the National Endowment for the Arts.