The Poetry Center
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Poetry Center Digital Archive makes available new and historic streaming video and downloadable audio files documenting performances in the Poetry Center Reading Series, based at San Francisco State University. These works are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. For other uses please email poetry@sfsu.edu.
The Poetry Center was founded in 1954 on the basis of a small donation by W. H. Auden (he surrendered half the honorarium paid him when he read his poetry to celebrate the opening of the present San Francisco State University campus). Today, the Poetry Center is one of the most long-lived and renowned literary arts institutions in the United States.
Since its inception, the Poetry Center at San Francisco State University has presented over 135 continuous seasons of outstanding contemporary poets and writers reading from their works. With its companion project The American Poetry Archives, the Center has amassed some 5,000 original recordings, an irreplaceable collective record of the past half-century of poetry and related arts.
Recordings, new and historic, are being added incrementally to the Poetry Center Digital Archive collection. Enjoy and make use of what's offered here!
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