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The Poetry Center presents Jayne Cortez [as part of a program shared with French novelist and feminist theorist Monique Wittig] at the Women Working in Literature Conference, held at Fort Mason, San Francisco. Cortez reads her poems from the recently published book Coagulations: New and Selected Poems (Thunder's Mouth Press,1984).
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The Poetry Center presents Judy Grahn and Diane Wakoski, appearing at the San Francisco Museum of Art, each reading from new work on a program of women poets organized by The Poetry Center and introduced by director Kathleen Fraser. Grahn reads from a long prose work in progress, and from the She, Who poems. The latter at the time is noted as being prepared for publication with the Women's Press Collective, which was located in the basement of A Woman’s Place Bookstore, on Broadway in Oakland. Wakoski reads three works in manuscript, a poetic essay followed by two longer poems, from her yet to be published book, Virtuoso Music for Two and Four Hands (Doubleday, 1975).
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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 renowned Chilean poet Raúl Zurita, together with poet, scholar of Latin American literature, and translator William Rowe, along with Nuri Gené-Cos, psychiatrist, whose work focuses on trauma and post-traumatic stress disorder, frequently with refugee survivors of political violence. Zurita reads in Spanish from his book INRI (2003), with Rowe reading his translation of the work to English (Marick Press, 2009; revised edition, with an introduction by Norma Cole, NYRB Poets, 2018) and from his earlier work, Canto a su amor desaparecido (1985), another translation of which was published the year following this reading (as Song for His Disappeared Love, Action Books, 2010, translated by Daniel Borzutsky). Eleni Stecopoulos opens by introducing the Poetics of Healing project and welcoming Zurita, Rowe, Gené-Cos, and the audience. Following their reading, Zurita and Rowe are joined in conversation by Gené-Cos, with Stecopoulos helping to guide the discussion, which takes place at The Poetry Center on the San Francisco State campus. This event was followed the same evening with an appearance by all participants at the Meridian Gallery in San Francisco, and the following day by a discussion with an audience of medical practitioners at the University of Californa San Francisco School of Medicine.
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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 Saretta Morgan, Nathalie Khankan, and Sarah Riggs, reading and in conversation, at Medicine for Nightmares in the Mission District, San Francisco. Morgan reads from newly written work [brief loss of audio in the recording of this poem] and from the manuscript of her forthcoming book, Alt-Nature (due from Coffee House Press in 2023). Khankan reads from QUIET ORIENT RIOT (Omnidawn 2021). Riggs reads from Nerve Epistle (Roof Books, 2021) as well as a participatory poem involving the audience. The readings are followed by a conversation between the poets and with the audience. This event was supported by the National Endowment for the Arts. Still photos by Jesus Rodriguez.