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The Poetry Center presents Brontez Purnell and Bay Area friends Cisco Guzman, Mason J., and Melissa Merin, in a queer writers of color poetry reading and round table conversation. As Mazza Writer in Residence for Spring 2021, Purnell visited as a guest — with students of writing, cinema, and dance — in classes across the SF State campus, and offered two public performances: a solo reading and conversation, and this second, group event. For both these remote-access events, the emcee is TreVaughn Malik Roach-Carter. The Mazza Writer in Residency Program is supported by the Sam Mazza Foundation.
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The Poetry Center presents Brontez Purnell and Tommy Pico, reading and in conversation. Brontez Purnell reads from Johnny Would You Love Me If My Dick Were Bigger (The Feminist Press at CUNY, 2017) and his forthcoming collection 100 Boyfriends. Tommy Pico reads from Junk (Tin House Books, 2018) and from the manuscript to his forthcoming book, Feed. After the reading is a conversation with the audience.
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The Poetry Center presents Catherine Wagner, Dana Ward, and Tyrone Williams reading at Ruth's Table, in the Mission District of San Francisco. Catherine Wagner reads from My New Job (Fence Books, 2009), as well as from various unpublished works. Dana Ward reads from This Can't Be Life (Edge Books, 2012) and The Crisis of Infinite Worlds (Futurepoem, 2013). Tyrone Williams reads excerpts from Washpark, an as-yet-unpublished collaboration with Pat Clifford, and from an unpublished novella from 1984. This special event was organized around the presence of three poets from Cincinatti, Ohio, invited to San Francisco to read their work together for The Poetry Center.
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The Poetry Center presents poets Chris Nealon, visiting the Bay Area from Washington, D.C., on a program shared with Stephanie Young, appearing from Oakland. Nealon, in addition to this reading from his poetry, delivers The Poetry Center's annual George Oppen Memorial Lecture the following evening. Both events take place at the East Bay Media Center, in downtown Berkeley. The George Oppen Memorial Lecture, with these adjacent readings, is supported by the Dorothy A. Fowler Trust.
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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 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 Dennis Cooper and Eileen Myles reading at McRoskey Mattress Co., San Francisco. Dennis Cooper reads his early story "My Mark," included in the New Narrative anthology Writers Who Love Too Much: New Narrative Writing 1977-1997, edited by Dodie Bellamy and Kevin Killian (Nightboat Books, 2017). Eileen Myles reads an older poem along with new poems in manuscript form before reading from her book Afterglow (a dog memoir) (Grove Press, 2017). This event is co-sponsored by The Poetry Center and The Green Arcade, in conjunction with Communal Presence: New Narrative Writing Today, a conference held at UC Berkeley and related venues, October 13-15, 2017, organized and convened by Daniel Benjamin, Chris Chen, Lyn Hejinian, and Eric Sneathen.
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The Poetry Center co-presents a celebration of the Diasporic Vietnamese Artists Network (DVAN), held at Jack Adams Hall in the César Chavez Student Center, San Francisco State University. DVAN co-founder and Pulitzer Prize novelist (for The Sympathiser) Viet Thanh Nguyen, and Thi Bui, author of the celebrated graphic novel The Best We Could Do: An Illustrated Memoir, are joined by DVAN co-founder, scholar and SF State professor of Asian American Studies Isabelle Pelaud; She Who Has No Master(s), including writers Lan Duong, Aimee Phan, and Julie Thi Underhill; and by writer and comedian Danny Nguyen. Program emcee is Philip Nguyen.
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The Poetry Center presents Edward Dorn, reading from new poetry. Dorn's reading is in two parts. He begins with a passage from Book IV of Gunslinger, titled "Idling With Observation and Song," which he notes is not exactly as it will appear in Book IV, as the parts of Gunslinger are collected for publication shortly after the date of this reading (Wingbow Press, 1975). He then reads the whole of the book Recollections of Gran Apacheria (Turtle Island Foundation, 1974). This work had just been published, in comic book format with cover and interior art my Michael Myers, with publisher Bob Callahan introducing Dorn, for The Poetry Center at San Francisco State University.
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For the concluding event in erica lewis's weeklong Mazza Writer in Residence program for Spring 2022, she is joined by Oakland-based poet Christine No, each reading from their work published by Barrelhouse Books. No reads from Whatever Love Means (Barrelhouse, 2021) and lewis follows by reading from daryl hall is my boyfriend (Barrelhouse, 2015), the first book in her "box-set trilogy." Note: lewis's reading is represented by audio-only recording. Program supported by the Sam Mazza Foundation. Still photos by Jesus Rodriguez.
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The Poetry Center presents erica lewis, Poetry Center Mazza Writer in Residence for Spring 2022, joined by Divya Victor. Victor reads from her book CURB (Nightboat Books, 2021), at the time of the reading just awarded the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award and Pen American Open Book Award, and lewis reads from mary wants to be a superwoman (Third Man Books, 2017). Following their readings, the poets join in conversation, along with emcee, Tatiana Luboviski-Acosta. The Mazza Writer in Residence program is supported by the Sam Mazza Foundation.
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The Poetry Center, together with Dogpark Collective, presents a celebration of two new works from this Oakland-based publisher, with readings from new books by Gabrielle Daniels and Hung Q. Tu. The event opens with Tu, reading poems from The New Boma (Dogbark Collective, 2021), and follows with Daniels reading a selection of poems from Something Else Again: Poetry and Prose, 1975-2019 (Dogpark Collective, 2022), a volume collecting works in various genres from across five decades. The poets are introduced by Steve Dickison, with introductory comments on Tu by Caleb Beckwith, who, together with Kate Robinson Beckwith and Eric Sneathen, is co-editor/publisher of the collective press. The program takes place at Medicine for Nightmares, in the Mission District, San Francisco. Still photographs of the poets are by Jesus Rodriguez.
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The Poetry Center presents Garrett Caples and Julian Talamantez Brolaski reading and in conversation. Garrett Caples reads new poems in manuscript as well as poems from Power Ballads (Wave Books, 2016). Julian Talamantez Brolaski reads from Advice for Lovers (City Lights, 2012) a new chapbook, Come Correct (fivehundred places, 2018), and new work from manuscript. The reading is followed by a conversation in response to questions from the audience.
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The Poetry Center presents Jasmine Gibson, reading and in conversation with Juliana Spahr. Jasmine Gibson read from her book, Don’t Let Them See Me Like This (Nightboat Books, 2018), as well as new unpublished work, followed by Juliana Spahr interviewing Gibson, before she converses with the audience. This event is the first of two in a double program, part of The Poetry Center's In Common Writers Series, supported by the Walter & Elise Haas Fund. PLEASE NOTE: The recording exists only for the conversation, which is joined in progress with Jasmine Gibson responding to a question from C.S. Giscombe, in the audience, regarding the effects of her work as a therapist and social worker on her work as a poet.
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The Poetry Center presents jayy dodd, whose book The Black Condition ft. Narcissus (Nightboat Books, 2019) — "an irreverently tender profile of Black trans life surviving and thriving during contemporary political turmoil" — was selected to receive the Poetry Center Book Award. She reads from that book and from other poems, and is joined by award judge Lourdes Figueroa, who reads from her own poems. Following their readings, the poets engage in conversation, together with emcee, Tatiana Luboviski-Acosta.
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The Poetry Center presents Jessica Hagedorn and the West Coast Gangster Choir, in this historic mid-1970s video recording. Introduced by Nashira Ntosha Priester ("Good God, America's a gangster country!"), with music for the band composed by luminary musician Julian Priester working in close collaboration with the poet, Hagedorn and company are presented in the group's premier public performance, at San Francisco State University, in Studio One, Creative Arts Building. Hagedorn's poems performed here are drawn mostly from her first book, Dangerous Music (Momo's Press, 1975), published in San Francisco the same year. Of the musicians, electric bassist Heshima Mark Williams and drummer Augusta Lee Collins would join Julian Priester's Marine Intrusion band. Guitarist Makoto Horiuchi was the first arranger/producer signed to work for Quincy Jones's Qwest label, and recorded two albums for the label under his own name. Hagedorn is accompanied on vocals by a three-voice chorus led by prolific Bay Area gospel, R&B, and women's music singer, songwriter, and recording artist Linda Tillery.
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The Poetry Center, together with the Paul K. Longmore Institute on Disability, presents Krip-Hop Nation, a worldwide association of artists with disabilities. In addition to founder Leroy F. Moore Jr. and co-founder Keith Jones, this event presents three outstanding artists affiliated with Krip-Hop Nation — Toni Hickman, DJ Quad, and Wheelchair Sports Camp — joining in performance and conversation. Dr. Dawn-Elissa Fischer, who writes and consults about popular culture, policy and political activism with a focus on antiracism, social media and education in a global context, kindly joins the program as moderator. Founded in 2007 by Leroy F. Moore Jr. in Berkeley, California, the Krip-Hop Nation movement campaigns for equality for people with disabilities worldwide, with concerts, tours, workshops and much more. In 2020, four Krip-Hop Nation artists received Emmy Award accolades for Outstanding Music Direction on the Paralympic documentary film Rising Phoenix.
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The Poetry Center presents Michael McClure in a featured solo reading at the San Francisco Museum of Art (subsequently, SFMOMA) at its Van Ness Avenue location. McClure devotes his reading to his yet unpublished manuscript Fleas, "a book of childhood memories spontaneously composed on the typewriter in rhyme. They were written in the first three weeks of 1969." McClure reads, for what he says is the first time before an audience, "the last quarter of the book." The poems, he suggests, can be read as "a biological investigation of the realms of memory and the patterns in which memories are holographically stored, lighting up adjacent memories and leaping as fleas leap across the linoleum floor." McClure is introduced by Stan Rice, of the Creative Writing faculty at San Francisco State University.
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The Poetry Center presents the New Voice Series, in its second annual iteration. The series features a poet alumnus of SF State, in combination with a current SF State Creative Writing graduate student poet, and, for this year, two undergraduate student poets at SF State, all reading their work and engaging in conversation. Participants in the New Voice Series are selected by Poetry Center student staff. For this second-year event in the series, Raul Ruiz appears as featured poet, along with Zêdan Xelef, Alexiz Angel Romero, and Bianca White. The poets are introduced, alternately, by Brent Jensen and Tatiana Luboviski-Acosta. The poets' readings are followed by a conversation in response to questions from their audience.
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The Poetry Center presents Oscar Bermeo and Barbara Jane Reyes reading and in conversation. Bermeo reads unpublished work. Reyes reads new unpublished work, and from her books For the City That Nearly Broke Me (Aztlan Libre Press, 2012), Diwata (BOA Editions, 2010), and To Love as Aswan (PAWA, Inc. Publications, 2015). Following her reading, Kuwentuhan (Talkstory), a short film produced by San Francisco State University’s Documentary Film Institute and edited by Daewon Kim is screened, with the film incorporating a reading by Reyes of Joy Harjo's poem "Perhaps The World Ends Here." Kuwentuhan (Talkstory) is a project of the Poetry Center and Barbara Jane Reyes, supported by the Creative Work Fund. The film is followed by a conversation between the poets and the audience.
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The Poetry Center presents poets Q. R. Hand Jr., Genny Lim, and Juan Felipe Herrera, presenting their poetry at the South of Market Cultural Center (subsequently SOMArts), San Francisco. Hand and Lim each read solo from their work, and Herrera is joined in his performance by Troca, a Bay Area grupo featuring a mix of percussion, bass, and guitar. The poets, who each offer extended sets, are introduced by Poetry Center director Jim Hartz, who thanks poet Wilfredo Castaño of the South of Market Cultural Center, along with the San Francisco Arts Commission, for the community-centered collaboration with The Poetry Center.
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The Poetry Center presents Tom Clark and Lewis MacAdams, reading their poems written solo and in collaboration. Clark reads many poems, drawing from two collections, Suite (read from manuscript) and Blue (Black Sparrow Press, 1974). MacAdams reads from a wide swathe of poems in manuscript, followed by the two poets reading from their collaboratively written Expeditions by Lewis & Clark. Both poets were living in Bolinas, California, at the time of this event. Kathleen Fraser, Poetry Center director, makes the introductions, at San Francisco State University.
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Tyrone Williams presents the 34th annual George Oppen Memorial Lecture, at the Unitarian Center, San Francisco. The George Oppen Memorial Lecture is supported by the Dorothy A. Fowler Trust.