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The Poetry Center presents alex cruse and Kevin CK Lo (who collectively perform as Drought Spa) in performance and in conversation. alex cruse reads from a new manuscript, "Era of Zero," alongside an original multimedia work, live electronic sound projections by Lo, and electronic visuals by cruse and Lo. Their performance is followed by a conversation on their work, in response to questions from the audience.
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The Poetry Center presents Darius James and Val Jeanty in a first-ever collaboratiive "workshop performance" at The Poetry Center, in advance of their full performance the following night at The Lab in San Francisco. James reads from a newly issued edition of his novel Negrophobia: An Urban Parable (NYRB, 2019). Jeanty plays an electronic Korg Wavedrum as well as electronic turntables, improvising in real time with James's reading. This event, the first of a three-evening program in The Poetry Center's In Common Writers Series, was supported by a grant from the Walter & Elise Haas Fund.
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The Poetry Center presents Douglas Kearney and Tatiana Luboviski-Acosta, reading and in conversation. Douglas Kearney performs works from his books Buck Studies (Fence Books, 2016) and Someone Took They Tongues (Subito Press, 2016), as well as new work, plus an improvised piece incorporating lines out of books from Poetry Center shelves (Lawrence Raab, Mark Jarman, Maude Meehan, Artie Gold, Rochelle Owens, and the North Coast Review) with Kearney's own Buck Studies and Mess and Mess and (Noemi Press, 2015). Tatiana Luboviski-Acosta reads new works and poetry from her book The Easy Body (Timeless, Infinite Light, 2017). The readings are followed by an extended conversation with the audience.
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The Poetry Center in 2015 commissioned Evelyn Ficarra, California-born, UK-based composer and sound-artist, to create a sound-work, an 'audio chapbook' as she notes below, using original recordings from The Poetry Center's American Poetry Archives collection. The intent at the time was for this to be the first of a series of sound-works by commissioned artists for a project to be titled "Artists in the Archive." The project didn't, however, go beyond this initial work, after failed attempts to secure funding for the series of commissions. The base materials for Ficarra's work, Light Conference, are the audio documents from two readings: by Jackson Mac Low: November 5, 1975 (recorded in Knuth Hall, the music performance theater in San Francisco State University's Creative Arts Building), and by Stacy Doris: September 26, 2002 (recorded in The Poetry Center Reading Room, Humanities 512, on a program shared with Chet Wiener, to mark Doris's first semester teaching at SF State).
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The Poetry Center and Litmus Press join forces to celebrate the publication of Hearing — the long-awaited second book in a series of collaborations by Lyn Hejinian and Leslie Scalapino organized around each of the five senses — with a collective reading of sections as selected by Lyn Hejinian from the book. The poets' first collaboration in the series, Sight, was published by Edge Books in 1999. Hejinian and Scalapino were nearing the completion of Hearing when Scalapino died in 2010. An all-star cast of participants read from Hearing: E. Tracy Grinnell, Michael Cross, Lindsay Choi, Simone White, Eric Falci, Eileen Myles, Renee Gladman, Myung Mi Kim, Judith Goldman, Tom White, and Lyn Hejinian. Their reading is preceded by Judith Goldman providing an interpretive introduction to the poem, and is followed by a conversation between the readers and in response to questions from the online audience. E. Tracy Grinnell, publisher of Litmus Press, opens the event, Rachael Wilson, also with the press, accompanies her, and subsequently guides the conversation following the collective reading.
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The Poetry Center presents Maryam Ivette Parhizkar, reading and in conversation with Kenyatta A.C. Hinkle. Parhizkar reads published work from Social Text Online, Poem-A-Day (Academy of American Poets, 2018), Precipice: Writing on the Edge (Counterpath Press, 2018), and Omniverse (2018), as well as unpublished work from manuscript. Her reading is followed by an extended conversation between Parhizkar, Hinkle, and the audience. This event is the first of a two-evening program in The Poetry Center's In Common Writers Series, supported by a grant from the Walter & Elise Haas Fund.
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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 a solo reading by Stephen Ratcliffe, who received the Poetry Center Book Award for his book Selected Days (Counterpath Press, 2012), selected by an anonymous judge for the annual award. Ratcliffe speaks about and reads his selection from that work, then engages in questions from his audience. He is introduced by Steve Dickison, at The Poetry Center, San Francisco State University.
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The Poetry Center, together with The Green Arcade and Kelsey Street Press, co-presents Susan Gevirtz and Mei-mei Berssenbrugge, reading from their work for the second of two events in celebration of the 40th anniversary of Kelsey Street Press. Gevirtz, who reads from Black Box Cutaway (Kelsey Street Press, 1998), Coming Events (Nightboat, 2013) and work in manuscript, is introduced by artist Lynn Marie Kirby. Berssenbrugge, who reads from Four Year Old Girl (Kelsey Street, 1998), Nest (Kelsey Street, 2002), and Hello, The Roses (New Directions, 2013), is introduced by writer and filmmaker Trinh T. Minh-ha. Patrick Marks of The Green Arcade welcomes the audience and Steve Dickison of The Poetry Center provides further opening remarks. The event takes place at McRoskey Mattress Co., on Market Street in San Francisco.