Fukushima/Tanka/San Francisco:
The Voice of NOW in an Ancient Poetic Form
Tuesday FEB 5: 4:30–6:00 pm
@ César Chavez Student Gallery, SFSU
a reading with SFSU graduate students
in Japanese and Creative Writing
co-sponsored by the Dilena Takeyama Center for the Study of Japan
& Japanese culture, Foreign Languages and Literature Department,
César Chavez Student Gallery, and the Poetry Center
in conjunction with the exhibition
Voices from Japan: TANKA—After the Tsunami
Allison Adelle Hedge Coke,
with John-Carlos Perea & Jimmy Biala
Thursday FEB 7: 4:30 pm
@ the Poetry Center, HUM 512, SFSU
a reading by renowned poet, editor & Native American activist
accompanied with live music by multi-instrumentalist/ ethnomusicologist John-Carlos Perea, from SFSU’s American Indian Studies faculty, and his frequent collaborator, drummer/percussionist Jimmy Biala
CAConrad and Kazim Ali
Thursday FEB 21: 4:30 pm
@ the Poetry Center, HUM 512, SFSU
a reading & conversation with two celebrated contemporary poets
Rosa Alcalá and Roberto Tejada
Thursday FEB 28: 4:30 pm
@ the Poetry Center, HUM 512, SFSU
Friday MAR 1: 7:00 pm
@ Meridian Gallery, 535 Powell St., San Francisco
two appearances by remarkable poet/translator/scholars
The Last VisPo Anthology: Visual Poetry 1998–2008
with editors Crag Hill & Nico Vassilakis, and guests
Thursday MAR 14: 4:30 pm
@ the Poetry Center, HUM 512, SFSU
Friday MAR 15: 7:00 pm
@ Meridian Gallery, 535 Powell St., San Francisco
two events celebrating 21st century international
visual poetry anthology
Andrew Levy and Julie Ezelle Patton
Thursday MAR 21: 4:30 pm @ The Poetry Center, HUM 512, SFSU
two poet-performers reading and in conversation
Mark Wallace, Andrew Levy,
and Julie Ezelle Patton with Paul Van Curen, guitar
Saturday MAR 23: 7:00 pm
@ Meridian Gallery, 535 Powell St., San Francisco
an evening of poetry and performance
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APRIL-MAY EVENTS TBA
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• POETRY CENTER DIGITAL ARCHIVE posted "50 from the '50s" at its April 2011 debut, with better than fifty original Poetry Center recordings from our American Poetry Archives. In preparation are 1960s recordings, plus feature selections, 1954 forward.
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The Poetry Center since 1954 has hosted what is likely the longest continuously running poetry reading series in the United States, presenting dozens of public programs throughout the year, both on the SFSU campus and at various public venues in San Francisco and vicinity.
Our American Poetry Archives houses over 4,000 hours of original audio and video recordings dating from 1954 to the present. POETRY CENTER DIGITAL ARCHIVE provides free public access to significant portions of the collection via the World Wide Web.
The Poetry Center is located on the San Francisco State University campus, in Humanities 511 (Offices) , HUM 512 (Reading Room),
and HUM 507 (Archives).
Programs supported by San Francisco State University College of Arts & Humanities, SFSU Instructionally Related Student Activities Fund, Grants for the Arts/Hotel Tax Fund (City of San Francisco), the Creative Work Fund, National Endowment for the Arts, the Fund for Poetry, and Friends of the Poetry Center.
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