The Poetry Center presents John Ashbery, reading from his poetry at the San Francisco Museum of Art (pre SFMOMA), at its former Van Ness Avenue location. This is Ashbery’s first ever San Francisco reading, Kathleen Fraser having invited him as part of the celebration of The Poetry Center’s twentieth anniversary. He reads poems that will be included in Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror (Viking Press, 1975) — still the only book to receive the Pulitzer Prize, National Book Award, and National Book Critics Circle Award — and from his earlier collection The Double Dream of Spring (E. P. Dutton, 1970).