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The Poetry Center presents Allen Ginsberg, reading his poetry and talking on contemporary politics and poetics with Neal Cassady and in response to filmmaker/poet Richard O. Moore. Ginsberg reads "Kraj Majales" (King of May) and an anti-war poem written on a protest sign. The footage was filmed July 18, 1965, just prior to the Berkeley Poetry Conference at UC Berkeley, in the basement at City Lights Books in North Beach, San Francisco. Among others in the audience, John Wieners, Robert Creeley, and Bobbie Louise Hawkins appear briefly on camera.
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The Poetry Center presents Allen Ginsberg, going about daily life at his apartment in the Mission district of San Francisco, at at painter friend Robert LaVigne's studio, and reading his poetry. Present with him are Peter Orlovsky and Julian Orlovsky, Neal Cassady, and LaVigne. With Peter Orlovsky on guitar and Ginsberg on finger cymbals, Ginsberg chants sutras before reading from his poems. The footage was filmed December 14, 1965, at the shared San Francisco apartment and in LaVigne's painting studio. Incidentally, Ginsberg's first reading of his poem "Wichita Vortex Sutra," composed on the west-to-east-coast trip alluded to in this video, took place "on February 21, 1966 in the ballroom of the Student Union of Wichita State University, Wichita, Kansas."
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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Verses," Candor is The Brightest Shield (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2014), Conversion Table (Mindmade Books, 2016), and unpublished work.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 a memorial tribute to Benjamin Hollander (1952–2016). Twenty-two poets, writers, artists, and friends come together to reminisce and to read from Hollander's books, including How To Read, Too (Leech Books, 1992), The Book of Who Are Was (Sun & Moon Press, 1997), Rituals of Truce and the Other Israeli (Parrhesia Press, 2004), Vigilance (Beyond Baroque Books, 2005), In the House Un-American (Clockroot Books/Interlink Publishing, 2013), Memoir American (Punctum Books, 2013), and his posthumously published work, The Letters of Carla, the letter b: A Mystery in Poetry (Chax Press, 2017).
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The Poetry Center presents Carolyn Kizer reading other poets' works as well as her own poems and Classical Chinese translations.
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The Poetry Center presents Charles Olson, speaking of his life and work and reading from poems included in The Distances (Grove Press, 1960) and in his late extended work, The Maximus Poems: at the time he was at work on Book III. The footage was filmed March 12 & 13, 1966, at Olson's home in Gloucester, Massachusetts, with Olson responding to questions from poet and filmmaker Richard O. Moore.
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The Poetry Center presents Charles Olson with Edward Dorn, speaking outdoors during the July 1965 Berkeley Poetry Conference, on the University of California Berkeley campus.As Olson speaks he alludes several times to what happened "last night," referring to his 3-plus hour reading of July 23, thus dating this film recording as July 24. That event was subsequently transcribed by Zoe Brown and published as Charles Olson Reading at Berkeley by James Koller's Coyote Press, 1966. The segment of this program filmed in Berkeley is followed by extensive silent B-roll footage shot in Gloucester, Massachusetts during Richard O. Moore and his KQED film crew's March 1966 visit to Olson's home (see Charles Olson, Part 1).
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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 Dale M. Smith speaking on Robert Duncan and Charles Olson, reading briefly from his own poetry, and in conversation. Smith presents two pieces drawing on his research into the relationship between poets Duncan and Olson, as involved in his work on two books: An Open Map: The Correspondence Between Robert Duncan and Charles Olson and Imagining Persons: Robert Duncan's Lectures on Charles Olson, both volumes co-edited by Smith and the late Robert J. Bertholf (University of Mexico Press, 2017). Smith also reads briefly from his recent book Sons (Knife Fork Book, 2017). The reading is followed by a conversation with the audience.
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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 presents Denise Levertov, speaking of the nature of her work and reading from her poems, with her husband Mitchell Goodman commenting, and son Nickolai and a family friend, Robert Goldman, also present. Richard O. Moore engages Levertov and the others with questions and comments throughout. The footage was filmed March 20, 1966, at Levertov's apartment in New York City.
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The Poetry Center presents Diane di Prima and Lenore Kandel, together on stage reading their work and engaging in conversation in response to their audience at San Francisco State University. Kandel, whose early work The Love Book (1966, first self-published then quickly brought out from Stolen Paper Review; Kandel's Word Alchemy followed soon from Grove Press, 1967) set off police actions with charges of obscenity due to its open expression of women's desire and sexuality, reads a span of mostly newer poems. di Prima reads from Part V of her long poem-in-progress, Loba (with Loba, Part II, published that year by Eidolon Editions/Dreamweapon, Point Reyes & Katmandu, 1976), work drawn from her Selected Poems, 1956–75 (North Atlantic Books, 1975), and other poems. Lewis MacAdams, as Poetry Center director, introduces the poets, in the erstwhile Barbary Coast Room in the César Chavez Student Center.
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The Poetry Center presents Forrest Gander, reading and in conversation. After opening with a reading from unpublished work by C.D. Wright, and a selection of poems by Latin American and Spanish poets (read in Spanish and in translation), Gander reads his own new work from Be With (New Directions, 2018) and from his earlier book, Science and Steepleflower, (New Directions, 1998). His reading is followed by a conversation in response to questions from the audience.
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The Poetry Center presents Geoffrey Young, Stephen Rodefer, and Larry Goodell, in that sequence, reading and, in Goodell's instance, performing their poetry at San Francisco State University. Young reads from In XX Arrondisements (The Figures, 1975). Rodefer reads from One or Two Love Poems from the White World (Duende, 1976) and other work. Goodell reads from The Staff of Ometeotl and the Bowl of Ometeotl (Truck Press, 1975), A Garden of Ourselves, The Face of Velma, and Dried Apricots (all from his own Duende Press). Kathleen Fraser makes the introductions for this early video-documented event by these three poet friends, visiting as she notes from New Mexico, in an augmented classroom (décor by Goodell) at SF State.
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The Poetry Center presents Joanne Kyger and Australian poet Robert Adamson, reading primarily from new works: Kyger's On Time (City Lights Books, 2015) and Adamson's Net Needle (Flood Editions, 2015.)
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The Poetry Center presents Lee Ann Brown and Rod Smith reading and in conversation. Lee Ann Brown reads new work as well as poems from her book In the Laurels, Caught (Fence Books, 2013). Rod Smith reads from his book Touché (Wave Books, 2015) as well as from unpublished work. The readings are followed by a conversation with the audience.
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Mark Linenthal, co-director of The Poetry Center, presents a lecture on trends and directions in contemporary American poetry, with recorded excerpts of Robert Lowell, Allen Ginsberg, and Robert Creeley reading from their work.
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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 and talking in regards to his poetics, and considering among other subjects the division between what is regarded as "eastern" and "western" writing and thought. Whalen responds to questions by filmmaker Richard O. Moore. The footage was recorded at Whalen's apartment in San Francisco, on November 10, 1965, late autumn following the summer of the Berkeley Poetry Conference at UC Berkeley, and that confluence on the West Coast of several of the poets profiled in the USA: Poetry series.
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The Poetry Center presents poet and translator Pierre Joris reading, primarily, from his collection Barzakh: Poems 2000-2012 (Black Widow Press, 2014), and a reading and performance by multi-media artist Nicole Peyrafitte, with works from Bi-Valve: Vulvic Space, Vulvic Knowledge, before the two take questions from the audience.
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The Poetry Center presents Robert Adamson reading from The Goldfinches of Baghdad (Flood Editions, 2006) and Net Needle (Flood Editions, 2015). Adamson responds to questions from the audience and talks extensively about his adolescent incarceration and discovery of poetry while in prison.
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The Poetry Center, in one of several special programs marking its 20th anniversary with celebratory readings at the San Francisco Museum of Art, presents Robert Creeley and John Wieners. Creeley reads primarily newer poems, with a few earlier poems as collected in his book For Love: Poems 1950–1960 (Scribners, 1962). Wieners reads from manuscript, writings contemporary with that published in Behind the State Capitol, or Cincinatti Pike (Good Gay Poets Press, 1975) and from his recent Selected Poems (Grossman, 1972). The poets are introduced by Poetry Center director Kathleen Fraser, who in introducing Wieners reads a statement he'd written that day for the purpose. For the early part of Wieners' performance he is accompanied by piano, a volunteer piano player having been requested from the audience by Creeley to entertain with some music during the break.
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The Poetry Center presents Robert Creeley reading from his poetry.
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The Poetry Center presents Robert Creeley reading from his early books of poetry.
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The Poetry Center presents Robert Creeley, reading from his poems and commenting on his poetry and poetics, in response to questions from filmmaker/poet Richard O. Moore. Creeley is accompanied by Bobbie Louise Hawkins (at the time, Bobbie Creeley), and speaks extensively of his poetics and his contemporaries and the sense of a common and complementary undertaking between them.
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The Poetry Center presents Simon J. Ortiz and Jennifer Elise Foerster, reading from their poetry, at Medicine for Nightmares in San Francisco. Foerster reads from her most recent book The Maybe Bird (The Song Cave, 2022) and other work. Ortiz reads from a span of his work, including the manuscript from his forthcoming book, Light as Light, poems from the omnibus volume Woven Stone (1992), and one story from Men on the Moon: Collected Short Stories (1999; all, in new editions, from the University of Arizona Press). Two days prior, he read from his poetry and stories and talked with the audience at The Poetry Center, San Francisco State University. Steve Dickison introduces the poets. On the walls of the gallery space is new work by San Francisco-based Salvadoran muralist Josue Rojas.
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The Poetry Center presents a memorial tribute to Stephen Rodefer (1940–2015), with reminiscences and poems, mostly by Rodefer, read by twenty Bay Area poets and friends. The event incorporates a portion from a Poetry Center video of Stephen Rodefer reading, May 8, 1975, at San Francisco State University.
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The Poetry Center presents Keith Abbott, Ted Berrigan, and Kenward Elmslie, reading from their respective work, at San Francisco State University. The poets are introduced by Kathleen Fraser, in what would be her last season as Poetry Center director. Abbott and Berrigan each read a span of mostly recent poems, while to his set of poems Elmslie adds two of his songs, singing along with recorded music. After announcing forthcoming events, Fraser introduces all three poets at the start of the event. Abbott reads first, Berrigan second, and Elmslie closes the event with a near hour-long performance. Berrigan at the start of his reading notes that he's enjoyed Abbott's work a long time, although "last night" was the first they'd met, whereas he and Elmslie "have read together thousand of times...We always say each other is good."
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The Poetry Center presents Tomas Tranströmer, reading his poetry in translations by May Swenson, Robert Bly, and Samuel Charters, and in the original Swedish. Nearly four decades before he received the Nobel Prize for Literature, the celebrated Swedish poet reads and introduces a range of his poetry that was becoming available from American presses. He follows his reading with an extended conversation on translation, on his background and influences as a poet, on the relative cultural place of poetry in Sweden and other countries, and closes by reading briefly, again, from Swedish and in translation. Tranströmer is introduced by Kathleen Fraser, Poetry Center director, and his interlocutors from the audience include Michael Palmer, Robert Duncan (both briefly on-screen), with George Oppen also noted as present. The reading, as Fraser remarks, happened on an impromptu basis, and she's gathered an audience on short notice.
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The Poetry Center presents Jane Gregory and Vincent Katz reading and in conversation. Gregory reads new poems from an unpublished manuscript titled Profices. Katz reads works from Swimming Home (Nightboat Books, 2015), The Complete Elegies of Sextus Propertius (Princeton University Press, 2004), and his forthcoming book, Southness. Their readings are followed by a conversation with the audience.