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“Stop Sweeping Us. We Are Not Trash,” a performative workshop and reading on poverty, homelessness, gentrification, and disability, featuring Leroy F. Moore Jr. and Lisa “Tiny” Gray-Garcia, accompanied by Paige Kirstein, is presented in collaboration with the Paul K. Longmore Disability Studies Institute, the departments of Africana Studies, History, Women and Gender Studies, the College of Liberal and Creative Arts, and The Poetry Center. Leroy F. Moore Jr. reads pieces from his books Black Kripple (Poetic Matrix Press, 2015), Black Disabled Art History 101 (Xóchitl Justice Press, 2017), and his forthcoming comic book, Krip-Hop Komic. Lisa "Tiny" Gray-Garcia reads from her books The Hard Worker/Trabajador Fuerte (POOR Press), Criminal of Poverty: Growing Up Homeless in America (City Lights Foundation, 2006), and her forthcoming work Poverty Scholarship. Each of the writers also participates in unpublished performance pieces, and responds to questions from the audience.
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The Poetry Center, together with Women and Gender Studies, Latina/Latino Studies, and Africana Studies at San Francisco State University, presents celebrated Afro-Cuban poet Nancy Morejón, reading her poetry and engaging with questions from the full-house audience. After opening remarks by Steve Dickison of The Poetry Center, Jillian Sandell, chair of Women and Gender Studies, introduces bookseller and activist Tony Ryan, who invites the audience to other local appearances by Morejón and alerts the audience to the newly arrived book Homing Instincts / Querencias (Cubana Books, 2014), a bilingual collection of Morejón's work with translations by Pamela Carmel. Sandell then returns and introduces Nancy Morejón together with translator Barbara Paschke, who reads Morejón's poems in English. This program was one of several local appearances by Morejón, on a rare visit to the Bay Area, and took place as the first in a series of lectures sponsored by Women and Gender Studies for Fall 2014.
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The Poetry Center, in collaboration with Radar Productions and the SFSU Department of Women and Gender Studies, presents novelist and essayist Sarah Schulman, along with literary critic Terry Castle, in conversation around Schulman’s latest novel, The Cosmopolitans (The Feminist Press at CUNY, 2016).