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"The Poetry Center is insanely pleased to present the brilliant word theoretician and poet, CLARK COOLIDGE, in concert with the honorable PHILIP WHALEN, novice monk, and major American poet.... Clark Coolidge, like a doctor, but with a hurricane for a pen knife, has hewed the common cloudy phrase into a new kind of poetry language which rocks. The poet James Schuyler says, 'Clark Coolidge is the avant-garde.' Philip Whalen, a major literary figure in the San Francisco Renaissance of the '50s, has been shaping the post-American public since he came down from his sourdough mountain lookout to read at the Six Gallery in 1955." —(Lewis MacAdams, from the original press release)
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The Poetry Center and City Lights Books co-present a memorial tribute to David Meltzer, at San Francisco State University. Steve Dickison opens, with Garrett Caples as emcee, introducing Lawrence Ferlinghetti (via recording), Julie Rogers, George Herms, Jack Hirschman, Jerome Rothenberg, Marina Lazzara, Sunnylyn Thibodeaux, Michael McClure, and Clark Coolidge, all of whom come together to pay tribute, read from their own work, and from Meltzer's books of poetry, including David's Copy: The Selected Poems of David Meltzer (Penguin, 2005), Luna (Black Sparrow, 1970), Beat Thing (La Alameda Press, 2004), and a poem written by Meltzer for the 2011 Theo Saunders Sextet album Intergeneration. The event also features several recordings of David Meltzer reading his work at City Lights Bookstore. Photo, left-right: Sheppard Powell, Jack Hirschman, George Herms, and Clark Coolidge, courtesy Richard Friedman. Note: audio recording only, with apologies for distortion and irregular audio levels.
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The Poetry Center and The Green Arcade present a tribute to Franco Beltrametti (1937-1995), incorporating a screening of Claudio Tettamanti's short film "Ultime cose (d’après CHOSES qui voyagent)” (1995). Stefan Hyner, Duncan McNaughton, Joanne Kyger, Donald Guravich, Judy Goldhaft, Maggie Brown, and Jim Nesbit read from Beltrametti's Almost Everywhere: Selected Poems 1965-1995 (Fondazione Franco Beltrametti/Blackberry Books, 2016), and from Beltrametti's 1971 novel Nadamas, and comment on the late poet-artist and his work.
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The Poetry Center presents Lawrence Ferlinghetti reading from his book A Coney Island of the Mind. This event also featured poet Philip Whalen.
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The Poetry Center presents Lew Welch reading from and discussing his poetry.
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The Poetry Center presents Jim Dunn and Neeli Cherkovski, reading and in conversation. Dunn reads his poems from Convenient Hole (Pressed Wafer, 2005), Soft Launch (Bootstrap/Pressed Wafer, 2008), and from his unpublished manuscript Dreaming in Tongues. Cherkovski reads poems including selections from his book Elegy For my Beat Generation (Lithic Press, 2018) and from the manuscript of his forthcoming book Hyper (due 2019 from Lithic Press). Their readings are followed by a conversation with the audience.
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The Poetry Center presents Orlando White, recipient of the Poetry Center Book Award for LETTERRS (Nightboat Books, 2015). White reads with award judge Patrick James Dunagan, who reads from Drops of Rain / Drops of Wine (Spuyten Duyvil, 2016) and Book of Kings (Bird & Beckett Books, 2015). The poets' readings are followed by an extensive conversation with the audience focused on questions of poetics.
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The Poetry Center presents Philip Whalen reading from his poetry. This event also featured poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti.
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The Poetry Center presents Philip Whalen reading from selected works.
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Philip Whalen reading from his poetry.
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The Poetry Center presents the March 1956 Berkeley re-creation of the famed October 1955 Six Gallery reading, introduced by Kenneth Rexroth, and featuring Gary Snyder, Philip Whalen, and Michael McClure.
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The Poetry Center presents Robert Creeley reading from his poetry.