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The Poetry Center presents Anne Lesley Selcer and Dawn Lundy Martin, in the first of two programs they share on the same date. Here they each read their work and engage in conversation with one another and the audience at The Poetry Center, San Francisco State University. Martin selected Selcer's From A Book of Poems on Beauty for the 2014 Gazing Grain Chapbook Award, which opened the occasion for their invitation to appear together. Selcer reads from that chapbook, and Martin reads for the first time in public from her soon-to-be-published book, Life in a Box Is a Pretty Life (Nightboat Books, 2015), followed by a generous set of responses to questions from their audience. That same evening, the poets appeared again together, reading their work at The Green Arcade in downtown San Francisco.
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The Poetry Center is honored to welcome Denise Riley, in a rare online appearance, and Jennifer Soong. Joining us, respectively, from London, U.K., and the Eastern U.S., the poets each read from their work. Riley reads new poems from a manuscript titled Lurex (forthcoming in 2022, Picador, UK) and from her first collection of poems from a U.S.-based publisher, Say Something Back / Time Lived, Without Its Flow (New York Review of Books, Poets Series, 2020), and Soong reads new unpublished poems from the manuscript of a forthcoming book, Suede Mantis, Soft Rage (due in 2022 from Black Sun), from her debut book, Near, At (Futurepoem, 2019), and from new work. The poets then join one another in conversation, together with emcee Brandon Brown, responding to questions from him, from one another, and from their remote-access audience. This program is supported in part by the National Endowment for the Arts, and co-sponsored with NYRB Poets and Futurepoem.
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The Poetry Center presents Robin Blaser and Ebbe Borregaard, reading their work at the San Francisco State University Student Center, in the erstwhile Barbary Coast Room. Blaser, on a rare visit from Vancouver, BC, returns to what he regards as his home, San Francisco, to read from his poetry, with a declaration that he's leaving that mode of writing poetry behind him. Borregaard, saying he had intended to present only songs, opens by reading his poems, then, returning to the microphone after Blaser's reading and a break, he reads from a prose piece he calls "Notes of Arrogance and Possibility" — punctuated then overtaken by Blaser's extended interventions. Lewis MacAdams as Poetry Center director provides the introductions, dedicating the program to the goddess Isis.
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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.