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The Poetry Center and The Green Arcade co-present a tribute to Bill Berkson (1939–2016), hosted by McRoskey Mattress Co. Thirty poets, artists, and friends of Bill Berkson come together to reminisce and read poems and prose, from, among others of Berkson’s books, Lush Life (Z Press, 1984), Blue is the Hero (L Publications, 1976), Repeat After Me (with John Zurier, paintings, Gallery Paule Anglim, 2011), Portrait and Dream: New and Selected Poems (Coffee House Press, 2009), Our Friends Will Pass Among You Silently (The Owl Press, 2007), What’s Your Idea of a Good Time? Interviews and Letters 1977–1985 (with Bernadette Mayer, Tuumba Press, 2006), The Sweet Singer of Modernism & Other Art Writings 1985–2003 (Qua Books, 2004), Sudden Address: Selected Lectures 1981–2006 (Cuneiform Press, 2007), and For the Ordinary Artist: Short Reviews, Occasional Pieces and More (BlazeVox, 2010), as well as from the festshrift volume For Bill, Anything (Pressed Wafer, 2015). The program incorporates "School of Poets," a short video featuring Bill Berkson interviewed at his home, commissioned by Kenward Elmslie and appearing here courtesy of Citizen Film.
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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 Norton reads from Wite Out: Love and Work (Hanging Loose Press, 2020) and from unpublished work.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, 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, with support by the Sam Mazza Foundation, presents Mazza Writer in Residence Tatiana Luboviski-Acosta along with Daisy Zamora, reading and in conversation. Tatiana Luboviski-Acosta reads a new unpublished poem and their essay "A Film About Bleeding, Composed of Previously Discarded Fragments" (Open Space, 2018). Daisy Zamora reads from The Violent Foam (Curbstone Press, 2002) and La violenta espuma (Visor, 2017) as well as newer, unpublished poems, reading both in Spanish and in translations by George Evans. The readings are followed by a conversation with the audience.
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The Poetry Center presents Mazza Writer in Residence Tatiana Luboviski-Acosta, in performance with Kyle Parker. This event concludes their weeklong residency with The Poetry Center at San Francisco State University, supported by a grant from the Sam Mazza Foundation. The performance features four poems by Luboviski-Acosta, from an unpublished work in progress.