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The Poetry Center presents Camille T. Dungy and Javier Zamora, reading and in conversation. Camille Dungy reads poems from Trophic Cascade (Wesleyan University Press, 2017) and excerpts from her prose work Guidebook to Relative Strangers (W.W. Norton, 2017). Javier Zamora reads poems from Unaccompanied (Copper Canyon Press, 2017). The readings are followed by a conversation with the audience.
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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 presents Fay Victor and Myra Melford, with a workshop performance and conversation. The two artists, working for the first time as a duo, Victor on vocals and Melford on electronic piano, combine composition and improvisation across a selection of original songs. Throughout, Victor and Melford engage in conversation with each other, and at intervals with the audience. The workshop performance was the first in a two-event program, with a performance following the same evening at the Center for New Music, downtown San Francisco, as part of The Poetry Center's In Common Writers Series, supported by the Walter & Elise Haas Fund.
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The Poetry Center presents June Jordan reading her poetry, from the collection Things That I Do in the Dark: 1954-1977 (Random House, 1977).
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The Poetry Center presents Norman Fischer and Tinker Greene, reading from their poetry at The Greene Arcade, San Francisco. Fischer reads from newly published books, including his Selected Poems 1980–2013 (Chax Press, 2022), There was a clattering as... (Lavender Ink, 2021), and On a Train at Night (Presses Universitaires de Rouen, 2018). Greene, back in San Francisco on a rare visit from Chicago, after being introduced by his publisher, Alastair Johnston, reads a sweep of work from his newly released Blue Flame Ring: Collected Poems (Poltroon Press, 2022). Still photos by Jesus Rodriguez.