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The Poetry Center presents alex cruse and Kevin CK Lo (who collectively perform as Drought Spa) in performance and in conversation. alex cruse reads from a new manuscript, "Era of Zero," alongside an original multimedia work, live electronic sound projections by Lo, and electronic visuals by cruse and Lo. Their performance is followed by a conversation on their work, in response to questions from the audience.
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The Poetry Center presents Alli Warren reading from her Poetry Center Book Award winning book, Here Come the Warm Jets (City Lights Books/Spotlight Series, 2013) together with award judge Laura Moriarty, reading from Ladybug Laws (La Perruque Editions) and Who That Divines (Nightboat Books). Their readings are followed by the poets conversing and responding to questions from the audience.
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The Poetry Center presents Arisa White reading from Post Pardon (Mouthfeel Press) and A Penny Saved (Aquarius Press, 2012) and Raina J. Léon reading from Boogeyman Dawn (Salmon Poetry, 2014) followed by questions from the audience.
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The Poetry Center and the Museum of the African Diaspora co-present artist Asya Abdrahman and writers Faith Adiele and Tonya M. Foster, each presenting their work then responding to questions from the audience. The program, titled "Navigating Space for Women," took place at MoAD, San Francisco, within the context of the exhibition "Where Is Here" (curated by Jacqueline Francis and Kathy Zarur) and in celebration of International Women's Day, and was co-sponsored by MoAD and the Poetry Center. During March 2017, all Poetry Center programs were dedicated to the theme "Because We Come from Everything: Poetry and Migration," shared with 30+ organizations across the US engaged in the Poetry Coalition.
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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 Brazil, Rebecca Eland, Sara Larsen, and Andrew Schelling reading and in conversation. David Brazil reads "Tombstone Blues," Rebecca Eland reads from Arrives, then Steady Pace with the Hour (Plein Air Editions, 2016), Sara Larsen reads from Merry Hell (Atelos, 2016), and Andrew Schelling reads a mixture of published and unpublished works. The readings are followed by a conversation with the audience.
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The Poetry Center presents Hollie Hardy reading from her Poetry Center Book Award winning volume How to Take a Bullet and Other Survival Poems (Punk Hostage Press, 2014), together with award judge Mukta Sambrani, reading from The Woman in This Room Isn’t Lonely (Writer’s Workshop, Calcutta, 1997) and Broomrider’s Book of the Dead (Paperwall Media, Mumbai, 2015).
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The Poetry Center presents James Kass and Paul Flores, reading and in conversation, to celebrate the 21st anniversary of Youth Speaks. They read from manuscript, and performed from memory, poems that reflect on their time as founders and directors at Youth Speaks, which they launched in 1996 while still graduate students in the MFA Writing program at SF State. They discuss topics in between the poems, with their readings followed by a conversation with the audience.
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The Poetry Center presents Jasmine Gibson, reading and in conversation with Juliana Spahr. Jasmine Gibson read from her book, Don’t Let Them See Me Like This (Nightboat Books, 2018), as well as new unpublished work, followed by Juliana Spahr interviewing Gibson, before she converses with the audience. This event is the first of two in a double program, part of The Poetry Center's In Common Writers Series, supported by the Walter & Elise Haas Fund. PLEASE NOTE: The recording exists only for the conversation, which is joined in progress with Jasmine Gibson responding to a question from C.S. Giscombe, in the audience, regarding the effects of her work as a therapist and social worker on her work as a poet.
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The Poetry Center presents Lauren Levin and Melissa Mack, reading and in conversation. Melissa Mack, judge for the Poetry Center Book Award, reads from her book, The Next Crystal Text (Timeless, Infinite Light, 2018), and from newer work, before introducing Levin. Lauren Levin, winner of the Poetry Center Book Award, reads excerpts from their prize-winning book The Braid (Krupskaya Books, 2016), along with additional excerpts from their new book Justice Piece // Transmission (Timeless, Infinite Light, 2018). The poets' readings are followed by an extended conversation with one another and in response to questions from the audience.
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The Poetry Center presents Nellie Wong and Genny Lim reading and in conversation. Wong reads works from Breakfast Lunch Dinner (Meridian Press Works, 2012), The Death of Long Steam Lady (West End Press, 1986), Stolen Moments (Chicory Blue Press, 1997), and Speaking for Myself (Chicory Blue Press, 2014). Lim reads new work along with poems from Kra! (Omerta Publications, 2016) and Paper Gods and Rebels (Ishmael Reed Publishing Co., 2013). The readings are followed by an extensive conversation in response to questions from the audience.
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The Poetry Center presents Oscar Bermeo and Barbara Jane Reyes reading and in conversation. Bermeo reads unpublished work. Reyes reads new unpublished work, and from her books For the City That Nearly Broke Me (Aztlan Libre Press, 2012), Diwata (BOA Editions, 2010), and To Love as Aswan (PAWA, Inc. Publications, 2015). Following her reading, Kuwentuhan (Talkstory), a short film produced by San Francisco State University’s Documentary Film Institute and edited by Daewon Kim is screened, with the film incorporating a reading by Reyes of Joy Harjo's poem "Perhaps The World Ends Here." Kuwentuhan (Talkstory) is a project of the Poetry Center and Barbara Jane Reyes, supported by the Creative Work Fund. The film is followed by a conversation between the poets and the audience.
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The Poetry Center presents The Black Aesthetic, including curatorial members Jamal Batts, Ryanaustin Dennis, and Leila Weefur, together with contributors Shah Noor Hussein, Christian Johnson, and Ismail Muhammad, each reading and in conversation. After an introduction to the project, the writers each read their contributions to The Black Aesthetic Season II (Wolfman Books, 2018). The readings are followed by a conversation with the audience.
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The Poetry Center presents Wendy Trevino and Oki Sogumi, reading and in conversation. Wendy Trevino reads from her chapbook, Brazilian Is Not a Race (Commune Editions, 2016) and from unpublished work. Oki Sogumi reads the introduction to Smear Jelly Dreaming A goo daughter & Time Travel and Friendship (Museum of Expensive Things, 2016), and from unpublished work. The poets' readings are followed by a conversation with the audience.