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The Poetry Center presents Alice Notley and Bill Bathurst, reading their poetry at San Francisco State University. Notley reads new work, from For Frank O'Hara's Birthday (Reality Street, 1976) and poems which would appear in Alice Ordered to Be Made (The Yellow Press, 1976), and otherwise would be collected decades later in her Early Works (edited by Nick Sturm, Fonograf Editions, 2023). Bathurst follows, reading a span of poems and prose reaching back to 1959, and as appearing in his publications including For Juletta (Cranium Press, 1967), Greystone Poems (1970, No. 11 of the limited edition Maya Quartos printed by Clifford Burke at Cranium Press), and How to Continue (Glide Publications, from Glide Memorial Church, 1973), among other work. Lewis MacAdams, director of The Poetry Center, introduces the poets, in the erstwhile Barbary Coast Room of the César Chavez Student Center at SF State.
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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 Bill Berkson, Jim Carroll, and Anne Waldman, reading their work at San Francisco State University. Introductions are by Poetry Center director Lewis MacAdams, who notes that Waldman is being added to the program as originally announced. Berkson, as editor of Big Sky magazine and books, one of several small poetry presses out of Bolinas, CA, was a publisher for both Carroll and Waldman. Both from New York City and the scene around The Poetry Project at St. Marks Church, they were living briefly in Bolinas, the small coastal town north of San Francisco that from the mid-1960s on attracted a good number of poets and other artists. Berkson and MacAdams were each more long-term transplants, also via New York, to Bolinas.
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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 Reznikoff and George Oppen in an early reading from their respective books, By the Waters of Manhattan and The Materials, among other work. Both books, co-published by New Directions/The San Francisco Review, for each of the poets was their first book publication by a prominent publisher, and for Oppen his first published work since his 1934 debut Discrete Series, almost three decades prior.
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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 Frances Richard delivering the 32nd annual George Oppen Memorial Lecture, entitled "The Mind's own Place and Feminine Technologies: George Oppen and Possibilities of the Political." The Oppen Memorial Lecture series benefits from the support of the Dorothy A. Fowler Trust.
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The Poetry Center presents George Oppen reading two major sequences from his 1968 book Of Being Numerous, for which he would receive the Pulitzer Prize for poetry in 1969. The recording has no introduction. It picks up with Oppen reading from the middle of the poem "Route." Note: Occasionally throughout the recording, the audio becomes inaudible for a word or two, but most words can be heard through close listening and adjusting the volume.
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The Poetry Center presents a return reading (following his early 1968 Poetry Center reading) by George Oppen, in honor of his receiving the 1969 Pulitzer Prize for his book Of Being Numerous. Oppen begins with "the last two poems from a new group of poems," the first a poem resembling "The Translucent Mechanics" only in its title, and the second, "But So As By Fire," the final poem in his sequence "Some San Francisco Poems," to appear in his successive book, Seascape: Needle's Eye3m>. He then reads the two long poems in sections, "Route" in its entirety and nearly all sections from "Of Being Numerous."
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The Poetry Center presents George Stanley, visiting from Vancouver. Born and raised in San Francisco, where he lived most the first 30 years of his life, he is an alum of San Francisco State. Stanley presents an "open workshop," reading at large from his poetry and talking about his life and work, responding to questions from his audience (which includes Joanne Kyger, Donald Guravich, Tinker Greene, Ed Mycue, Lew Ellingham, among others). He reads poems from After Desire (2013), Vancouver: A Poem (2008), At Andy's (2000), and Gentle Northern Summer (1995, all from New Star Books, Vancouver). This is the first of two October 2013 programs featuring Stanley; two nights later he read with Ellingham at the Meridian Gallery in San Francisco.
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The Poetry Center presents John Ashbery, reading and speaking of his poetry and poetics, and together with painter Jane Freilicher talking about her work and the poet's relations with art and artists. He reads from his book published the same year, Rivers and Mountains (Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1966) and from his early book Some Trees (Yale University Press, 1956; reprinted 1970 by Corinth Books, and by Ecco Press, 1978). The footage was shot on March 4 and 6, 1966, at Freilicher's studio and at Ashbery's apartment, in New York City.
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The Poetry Center presents Kay Boyle, at the time on the San Francisco State University faculty in English, reading from her 1962 Collected Poems (Knopf).
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The Poetry Center presents a rare reading by Black Arts Movement poets K. Curtis Lyle, founding member of the Watts Writers Workshop of Los Angeles, and Calvin C. Hernton, sociologist and poet and founding member of the New York City-based Umbra Workshop. The poets are introduced, at New College of California in San Francisco's Mission district, by their friend (and fellow Umbra poet) Ishmael Reed. He is welcomed to the stage by Poetry Center director Lewis MacAdams, organizer of the event, in collaboration with the New College Poetics Program.
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The Poetry Center presents Kenneth Rexroth reading from his poetry and translations.
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The Poetry Center presents Louis Zukofsky, March 16, 1966, speaking of his work and its background, of literary precedents and some contemporaries, his long poem "A" and his transliteration (made with his wife Celia) of Catullus's Latin poetry, in response to questions posed by Richard O. Moore, and reading from "A"-9 (his canzone after Guido Cavalcanti's) and from an essay. Zukofsky appears in his New York City apartment (with Celia Zukofsky making a cameo appearance) and with audio of him reading accompanying the TV footage of the poet walking on the streets of his Brooklyn neighborhood.
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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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Michael Hamburger reads original poems and his translations of German poets.
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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 Robert Creeley reading from his 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 poet-scholars Robert Dewhurst and Michael Seth Stewart reading from and discussing the works of poet John Wieners (1934–2002). The program includes a screening of the outtakes from Richard O. Moore's 1965 "USA: Poetry" public television documentary featuring John Wieners in San Francisco along with Robert Duncan.
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The Poetry Center presents Robert Duncan, writing and working with recent poems, from his "Passages" series, and discussing his poetics in response to questions by filmmaker and poet Richard O. Moore. The footage was filmed on November 2, 1965, in the home of Duncan and his partner, artist Jess (Collins), on 20th Street in San Francisco's Mission District.
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The Poetry Center presents Roberto Tejada delivering the 31st annual George Oppen Memorial Lecture. Tejada focuses on the Oppens’ time living in Mexico during the years 1950 to 1958. Images are reproduced courtesy of the Mandeville Special Collections and Archives, University of California, San Diego, with particular thanks to Rob Melton at the Archive of New Poetry. The Oppen Memorial Lecture series benefits from the support of the Dorothy A. Fowler Trust.
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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 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.
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The Poetry Center presents William Carlos Williams reading and talking about his poetry.