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The Poetry Center, in collaboration with New College of California, presents Amiri Baraka, reading from his poetry and talking with the audience. The event, at New College, on Valencia Street in San Francisco's Mission District, is opened by Duncan McNaughton, of the New College Poetics program. He introduces Edward Dorn, who in turn introduces Baraka. Funds had been raised to fly Baraka from New York to San Francisco by way of a reading organized earlier that Spring at New College featuring Dorn and McNaughton, among others. Baraka reverses his sequence from his appearance before students earlier the same day at San Francisco State University, starting the evening with poems.
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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 Ariel Goldberg and Simone White reading and in conversation in celebration of the 50th anniversary of the Poetry Project at St. Marks Church in New York City. Ariel Goldberg reads from The Estrangement Principle (Nightboat Books, 2016) and previously published works. Simone White reads from a forthcoming work titled Dear Angel of Death (due from Ugly Duckling Presse, 2017). The readings are followed by a conversation with the audience, focused on each writer's work and on the history, present, and future activities of The Poetry Project.
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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 David Lau reading from his forthcoming book, Still Dirty (AK Press/Commune Editions, 2016), and Ed Pavlic reading from Let’s Let That Are Not Yet: INFERNO (Fence Books, 2015), followed by questions and conversation with the audience. NOTE: The video recording was lost in the back-up process, so this event is represented via audio recording only. Our apologies.
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The Poetry Center in conjunction with the Flor y Canto Festival presents a bilingual reading by Ernesto Cardenal. As featured guest artist for the Flor y Canto Festival, the celebrated Nicaraguan poet-priest makes a rare Bay Area appearance, at the Brava Theater in San Francisco's Mission District, to read from his 1989 volume Cánto Cósmico [Cosmic Canticle, translated by John Lyons, Curstone Books, 2002] and from later poems that appear in his English-language volume of 90 new poems, The Origin of Species and Other Poems (Texas Tech University Press, 2011), also translated by John Lyons.
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The Poetry Center presents Frank B. Wilderson III reading from the manuscript to his forthcoming book, provisionally titled Afro-Pessimism (due early 2020 from Liveright Publishing/W.W. Norton). His reading is followed by a conversation with the audience. This event, the first of two, inaugurates The Poetry Center's Black Study Series, a new annual program supported by an anonymous donor and, in this instance, the National Endowment for the Arts.
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The Poetry Center presents Jasmine Gibson and Juliana Spahr reading from their works. Jasmine Gibson opens, reading poems from her newly published book, Don't Let Them See Me Like This (Nightboat Books, 2018) as well as newer work from manuscript. Juliana Spahr reads an extended excerpt from a new, as yet untitled, work in progress. This event is the second evening of a double program, and 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 Maged Zaher, reading recent work from manuscript, interwoven with his translations from Ancient Arabic poets, and Rodney Koeneke, reading from Etruria (Wave Books, 2014) and from Seven for Boetticher (Hooke Press, 2015).
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The Poetry Center presents Prageeta Sharma reading from Undergloom (Fence Books, 2013), from previously published works, and from manuscript. Thomas Devaney reads from Calamity Jane (Furniture Press, 2014), Runaway Goat Cart (Hanging Loose Press, 2015), and other work. The readings are followed by a conversation between the poets and their audience.
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The Poetry Center and the Center for Iranian Diaspora Studies at San Francisco State University co-present a reading by Solmaz Sharif. Sharif reads from her book of poetry Look (Graywolf Press, 2016), and from new work in manuscript. The reading was followed by a reception, with the event held in celebration of the new Center for Iranian Diaspora Studies and its premier director, Persis Karim.
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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.