simon j. ortiz

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  Frank B. Wilderson III: February 14, 2019

  The Poetry Center presents Frank B. Wilderson III reading from the manuscript to his forthcoming book, provisionally titled Afro-Pessimism (due early 2020 from Liveright Publishing/W.W. Norton). His reading is followed by a conversation with the audience. This event, the first of two, inaugurates The Poetry Center's Black Study Series, a new annual program supported by an anonymous donor and, in this instance, the National Endowment for the Arts.

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  Simon J. Ortiz: November 19, 1975

  The Poetry Center presents Simon J. Ortiz, in this early reading of his work at San Francisco State University. Ortiz reads from A Good Journey (Turtle Island Foundation, 1977), a book he describes as composed of poems and narratives — stories from the tradition of his Acoma Pueblo Nation homeplace, and from his first book of poetry, Going for the Rain (Harper & Row, 1976). The event took place in the erstwhile Barbary Coast Room in the César Chavez Student Center, and was organized by Poetry Center director Lewis MacAdams, who provides the introduction.