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The Poetry Center and City Lights Books co-present Darius James, reading and in conversation. James reads excerpts from his newly reissued novel Negrophobia: An Urban Parable (New York Review of Books, 2019), interspersed with questions from the audience. The afternoon event concludes with James reading a new work, and final comments from the audience. This event is the third in a three event program in The Poetry Center's In Common Writers Series, supported in part by a grant from the Walter & Elise Haas Fund. Photo of Darius James at City Lights Books by Sean Christian Smith. NOTE: this program is audio only; no video was recorded.
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The Poetry Center presents David Swallow Jr., Lakota spiritual teacher and veteran AIM (American Indian Movement) activist. He joins us from near his home in the Porcupine District of the Pine Ridge Reservation, South Dakota, for this remote-access event. Swallow is introduced and engaged in conversation by Hafez Modirzadeh, musician, composer, and teacher of music and musical cultures in the School of Music, San Francisco State University. David Swallow Jr. is a Teton Lakota wicasa wakan ("holy man" or, as some would say, "medicine man") who was born and raised on the Pine Ridge Reservation. The Teton Lakota Nation is the band of Crazy Horse. Swallow was taught the ancient Lakota ways by his grandparents and is recognized by his own people, both on and off the reservation, as a spiritual leader and sun dance intercessor. Modirzadeh voices multiple questions, from himself and from the audience, as Swallow responds at length, drawing on the breadth of his personal, collective, and historic knowledge.
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The Poetry Center, as the inaugural event in the Leslie Scalapino 21st Century Innovative Writers Series, presents M. NourbeSe Philip, at McRoskey Mattress Co., San Francisco, in performance and in conversation. Philip reads and performs work from Zong! (Wesleyan University Press, 2008). The reading is followed by a conversation with the audience. The evening was co-sponsored by The Green Arcade. The annual series is supported by the Leslie Scalapino-O Books Fund.
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The Poetry Center presents David Buuck reading from Site Cite City (Futurepoem, 2015) and showing images related to his work "Buried Treasure Island," and Tonya Foster, reading from her book A Swarm of Bees in High Court (Belladonna, 2015) among other writings, followed by the two poets conversing with one another and responding to questions from the audience.