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The Poetry Center presents Anthony Cody and Chaun Webster, in conjunction with the Howard Zinn Book Fair, held at City College San Francisco, Mission Center, on Valencia Street. The thematic for the 2023 Howard Zinn Book Fair is "Against Amnesia," which the poets take up in the delivery of their work, continuing into a conversation in response to questions and comments from the audience (poets Oscar Bermeo, Barbara Jane Reyes, and Raquel Roque Salas Rivera among them). Cody reads from his books Borderland Apocrypha (Omnidawn, 2020) and The Rendering (Omnidawn, 2023), and Webster from Wail Song (subtitled Wading in the Water at the End of the World, Black Ocean, 2023). As noted, the event takes places at 10:00 am, as one of multiple opening events for the day-long annual book fair. Steve Dickison introduces the poets.
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The Poetry Center presents Rusty Morrison reading from Beyond the Chainlink (Ahsahta Press) and new works, along with Claudia Keelan reading from Truth of My Songs: Poems of the Trobairitz (Omnidawn Publishing). Their readings are followed by a conversation with the audience.
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The Poetry Center presents poets John Yau and Andrew Joron, reading and in conversation. Joron reads from recent work, as does Yau, the latter from the manuscript of what would be his book Genghis Khan on Drums (Omnidawn Publishing, 2021). Following their readings, the poets respond to questions between themselves and from the audience. The writers are introduced by Carlos Quinteros III, emcee for the event. This reading was the first of two programs featuring Yau, appearing remotely from his home in New York City, and the final program sequence in The Poetry Center's In Common Writers Series.
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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 presents Andrew Joron and Julie Carr, reading and in conversation. Joron reads from Trance Archive: New and Selected Poems (City Lights Books, Spotlight Series, 2010) and The Sound Mirror (Flood Editions, 2008), as well as some unpublished poems. Carr reads from her then forthcoming book Think Thank (Solid Objects, 2015), Rag (Omnidawn, 2014), and new poems. Their readings are followed by a conversation with the audience, in which bodies, dancing, indexing and found-text poems, among other things, are discussed.
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The Poetry Center presents Kenyatta A.C. Hinkle and Maryam Ivette Parhizkar, reading and in conversation. Maryam Ivette Parhizkar opens, reading an assortment of her poems as published at The Brooklyn Rail, OmniVerse, Gramma, and Gesture, as well as unpublished work. Kenyatta A.C. Hinkle reads extended excerpts from her forthcoming debut book SIR (Litmus Press, 2019). Their readings are followed by a conversation with the audience. This event continues is the second evening of a two-night program in The Poetry Center's In Common Writers Series, supported by a grant from the Walter & Elise Haas Fund.
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The Poetry Center presents Martha Ronk and Paul Vangelisti, reading and in conversation. Martha Ronk reads poems on the subject of photography from her book Ocular Proof (Omnidawn Publishing, 2016) and newer works in manuscript. Paul Vangelisti reads poems from his book Border Music (Talisman House, 2016) and a longer work from the chapbook "Toodaloo" (Magra Books). The readings are followed by a conversation with the audience.
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The Poetry Center presents Samantha Giles and Angela Hume reading and in conversation. Hume reads new work as well as two pieces from her book Middle Time (Omnidawn, 2016). Giles reads from her forthcoming book Origin (Ixnay Press, 2016). Their readings are followed by a conversation with 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.