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The Poetry Center presents Andrew Maxwell and Hank Lazer reading and in conversation. Andrew Maxwell reads from "Utility Verses," Candor is The Brightest Shield (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2014), Conversion Table (Mindmade Books, 2016), and unpublished work. Hank Lazer reads from Book of 10 Line Poems, The New Spirit (Singing Horse Press, 2005), Poems Hidden in Plain View (Presses universitaires de Rouen, 2016), N18 (Singing Horse Press, 2012), and Brush Mind: At Hand (GreencupBooks, 2016). The readings are followed by a conversation with the audience.
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The Poetry Center presents Benjamin Hollander reading his poem "Levinas and the Police," later to be published in his book Vigilance (Beyond Baroque Books, 2005). The close of the poem incorporates a recording of William Alwyn's soundtrack music for Carol Reed's 1947 film noir, Odd Man Out. Sarah Menefee also read her work on the same program.
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The Poetry Center presents Brenda Iijima and Janice Lee, reading from new works. Brenda Iijima reads from unpublished work, including the play Daily Life in China and a new long poem, while Janice Lee reads from the manuscript of her unpublished novel, Imagine a Death. These readings are the second event in the first program inaugurating the In Common Writers Series, supported by a grant from the Walter & Elise Haas Fund.
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The Poetry Center presents Cosmic Diaspora and Steve Dalachinsky, reading and in performance. Cosmic Diaspora (Jake Marmer, poetry; John Schott, guitar; and Joshua Horowitz, keyboard, accordion) opens with a set of songs shaped around poems by Marmer, paralleling immigration and science fiction. Steve Dalachinsky follows with an extended reading, much of it dedicated to musicians, from The Superintendent's Eye (Autonomedia/Unbearable Books, 2000), The Mantis (Iniquita Press, 2009), and works in manuscript.
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The Poetry Center presents the 33rd annual George Oppen Memorial Lecture featuring David B. Hobbs at the Unitarian Center. Hobbs's talk is titled "Oppen and His Early Others," and builds on his research on a formerly lost manuscript of Oppen’s early poetry which he discovered in Ezra Pound's papers, and subsequently edited for publication as 21 Poems by George Oppen (New Directions, 2017). The lecture is followed by his response to a question from Frances Richard, in the audience, then his reading of two of Oppen's early poems.
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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 is honored to welcome Denise Riley, in a rare online appearance, and Jennifer Soong. Joining us, respectively, from London, U.K., and the Eastern U.S., the poets each read from their work. Riley reads new poems from a manuscript titled Lurex (forthcoming in 2022, Picador, UK) and from her first collection of poems from a U.S.-based publisher, Say Something Back / Time Lived, Without Its Flow (New York Review of Books, Poets Series, 2020), and Soong reads new unpublished poems from the manuscript of a forthcoming book, Suede Mantis, Soft Rage (due in 2022 from Black Sun), from her debut book, Near, At (Futurepoem, 2019), and from new work. The poets then join one another in conversation, together with emcee Brandon Brown, responding to questions from him, from one another, and from their remote-access audience. This program is supported in part by the National Endowment for the Arts, and co-sponsored with NYRB Poets and Futurepoem.
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The Poetry Center presents Robin Blaser and Ebbe Borregaard, reading their work at the San Francisco State University Student Center, in the erstwhile Barbary Coast Room. Blaser, on a rare visit from Vancouver, BC, returns to what he regards as his home, San Francisco, to read from his poetry, with a declaration that he's leaving that mode of writing poetry behind him. Borregaard, saying he had intended to present only songs, opens by reading his poems, then, returning to the microphone after Blaser's reading and a break, he reads from a prose piece he calls "Notes of Arrogance and Possibility" — punctuated then overtaken by Blaser's extended interventions. Lewis MacAdams as Poetry Center director provides the introductions, dedicating the program to the goddess Isis.
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The Poetry Center, in conjunction with the Tripwire Cross-Cultural Poetics Series, presents a Memorial Tribute to Etel Adnan, at Medicine for Nightmares, their gallery space, in San Francisco. Participants in the program include, in order of presentation: David Buuck, Zaina Alsous, Naz Cuguoğlu, Fady Joudah, Stefania Pandolfo, and Camille Roy, with Steve Dickison providing introductions.
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The Poetry Center presents Gregory Pardlo reading from his books Totem (Copper Canyon Press, 2007) and Digest (Four Way Books, 2014), the latter for which he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in poetry for 2015. The event was co-sponsored by The Poetry Center, and the Departments of Creative Writing, English, and Creative Writing at San Francisco State University.
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The Poetry Center presents Jared Stanley and Steven Seidenberg, reading and in conversation. Jared Stanley reads unpublished poems, "Civilian" (previously published by the Academy of American Poets Poem-a-Day series, 2017, and forthcoming in Harvard Review), and work from Ears (Nightboat Books, 2017). Steven Seidenberg reads an extended excerpt from Situ (Black Sun Lit, 2018). The reading is followed by a conversation with the audience.
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The Poetry Center presents poets Katy Bohinc, reading from Dear Alain (Tender Buttons Press, 2014) and Paul Ebenkamp reading from The Louder the Room the Darker the Screen (Timeless, Infinite Light, 2015) and poems in manuscript, followed by a conversation between the poets and questions from the audience.