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The Poetry Center presents Anne Lesley Selcer and Suzanne Stein, reading and in conversation. Stein and Selcer open by reading part of their collaboration from Dialogues, a collection of performative conversations the two of them participated in during Stein's 2019 residency at Right Window, Artists' Television Access, San Francisco. Both then read from new books: Selcer from Sun Cycle (Cleveland State University Poetry Center, 2019), and Stein from New Sutras (Dogpark Collective, 2019). The writers then engage with questions from the audience. This event was supported in part by the National Endowment for the Arts.
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The Poetry Center presents a memorial tribute to Benjamin Hollander (1952–2016). Twenty-two poets, writers, artists, and friends come together to reminisce and to read from Hollander's books, including How To Read, Too (Leech Books, 1992), The Book of Who Are Was (Sun & Moon Press, 1997), Rituals of Truce and the Other Israeli (Parrhesia Press, 2004), Vigilance (Beyond Baroque Books, 2005), In the House Un-American (Clockroot Books/Interlink Publishing, 2013), Memoir American (Punctum Books, 2013), and his posthumously published work, The Letters of Carla, the letter b: A Mystery in Poetry (Chax Press, 2017).
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The Poetry Center presents Benjamin Hollander reading his poem "Levinas and the Police," later to be published in his book Vigilance (Beyond Baroque Books, 2005). The close of the poem incorporates a recording of William Alwyn's soundtrack music for Carol Reed's 1947 film noir, Odd Man Out. Sarah Menefee also read her work on the same program.
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The Poetry Center presents Linda Norton and Fanny Howe, along with emcee Norma Cole. Norton reads from Wite Out: Love and Work (Hanging Loose Press, 2020) and from unpublished work. Howe reads from Love and I: Poems (Graywolf Press, 2019) and from Second Childhood (Graywolf Press, 2014). Norton and Howe then, with Cole, engage in questions and discussion, talking about their various writing processes and their affinities, among other subjects. This program was supported by the National Endowment for the Arts.
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The Poetry Center presents Garrett Caples and Julian Talamantez Brolaski reading and in conversation. Garrett Caples reads new poems in manuscript as well as poems from Power Ballads (Wave Books, 2016). Julian Talamantez Brolaski reads from Advice for Lovers (City Lights, 2012) a new chapbook, Come Correct (fivehundred places, 2018), and new work from manuscript. The reading is followed by a conversation in response to questions from the audience.
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The Poetry Center presents, as the final program in its two-year In Common Writers Series, John Yau and Claudia La Rocco, each reading from new work and followed by a discussion, facilitated by emcee, Brandon Brown, among themselves and in response to their remote-access audience. La Rocco, from her home in Oakland, reads from her book Quartet (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2020), and Yau follows, reading from his home in New York City from the manuscript of what would be published as Genghis Kahn on Drums (Omnidawn Publishing, 2021).
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The Poetry Center and the Departments of Modern Languages and Literatures, and Jewish Studies, present José Kozer reading poems in Spanish from Ánima (Tierra Firme, Fondo de Cultura Económica, Mexico City, 2002; Shearsman Books, 2011) followed by Norma Cole, Chris Daniels, and Steve Dickison reading different selections from Anima in English. Kozer also reads from Carece de causa (Ediciones Ultimo Reino, 1988). The reading is followed by extended remarks by Kozer in response to questions from the audience.
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The Poetry Center presents Mg Roberts and Geneva Chao reading and in conversation. Mg Roberts reads from not so, sea (Durga Press, 2014) as well as from her forthcoming book Anemal Uter Meck (forthcoming from Black Radish Books, 2017). Geneva Chao reads from One of Us is Wave One of Us is Shore (Otis Books, 2016) and Hilary is Dreaming (Make Now Books, 2016). The readings are followed by a conversation with the audience.
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The Poetry Center, along with The Green Arcade, presents some two dozen poets from the Bay Area and beyond reading from the works of Michael Gizzi (1949–2010), on the occasion of the publication of his Collected Poems (The Figures, 2015), edited by Clark Coolidge and Craig Watson. The volume includes all of the poet’s books, plus more than 100 pages of unpublished poetry covering the years 1975-2010. Reading organized by Alan Bernheimer and Kit Robinson.
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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 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.
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The Poetry Center presents Tom Clark reading and commenting on his poetry, from various works and from manuscript, and Vincent Katz reading from Swimming Home (Nightboat Books, 2015) and his translations of The Complete Elegies of Sextus Propertius (Princeton University Press, 2004), among other work, at The Green Arcade bookshop in San Francisco.
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The Poetry Center and the Department of English at UC Berkeley co-present Tom Raworth (1938–2017): A Celebration of His Life and Work: 23 poets, musicians, publishers, and friends, in tribute to Tom Raworth. Taking place in the Maude Fife Room in Wheeler Hall at UC Berkeley, the event includes in-person tributes, along with several recorded or written and read by proxy, by: Lyn Hejinian, Stephen Emerson, Norma Cole, Alastair Johnston, Kit Robinson, Claude Royet-Journoud, David Southern, Jean Day, Alan Bernheimer, Merrill Gilfillan, Armando Pajalich, Stephen Vincent, Rod Smith, Larry Ochs, Fanny Howe, Jennifer Dunbar Dorn, Jim Nisbet, Gian Antonio Pozzi, Rita degli Esposti, Duncan McNaughton, Dale Heard, Lyn Hejinian, Andy Berlin, Steve Dickison, and Miles Champion. Selections from a 2012 recording of Tom Raworth, reading his poems (from Tottering State: Selected Early Poems, 1963–1983, The Figures, 1984/O Books, 2000) conclude the evening.
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The Poetry Center, in collaboration with California College of the Arts MFA-Writing Program, and Small Press Traffic, presents a tribute to Kathleen Fraser, in celebration of her 80th birthday. The program was organized and introduced by Susan Gevirtz and Stephen Motika. Fraser's publications include il cuore -- the heart: Selected Poems 1970-1995 (Wesleyan University, 1997,) Translating the Unspeakable: Poetry and the Innovative Necessity (University Alabama Press, 1999), Discrete Categories Forced into Coupling (Apogee Press, 2004), and movable TYYPE (Nightboat Books, 2011). Contributions to this tribute would subsequently be included in the festschrift anthology Dear Kathleen: On the Occasion of Kathleen Fraser's 80th Birthday, edited by Stephen Motika and Susan Gevirtz (Nightboat Books, 2017).
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The Poetry Center presents Jane Gregory and Vincent Katz reading and in conversation. Gregory reads new poems from an unpublished manuscript titled Profices. Katz reads works from Swimming Home (Nightboat Books, 2015), The Complete Elegies of Sextus Propertius (Princeton University Press, 2004), and his forthcoming book, Southness. Their readings are followed by a conversation with the audience.
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The Poetry Center presents William Rowe and Helen Dimos reading and in conversation. William Rowe reads newer poems in manuscript form, his translations from Raúl Zurita and César Vallejo, and poems from his own Collected Poems (Crater Press, 2016). Helen Dimos reads from No Realtor was Compensated for this Sale (The Elephants, 2017) and poetry in manuscript. Their readings are followed by a conversation with the audience.