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To all the poets, writers & musicians
and all the great audiences who were present
for the events of our SPRING 2013 season.
Check back later this summer
for what's coming for FALL 2013.
• POETRY CENTER DIGITAL ARCHIVE will be launching circa 100 rare archival recordings from the 1960s during SUMMER 2013.
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PAST EVENTS
Fukushima/Tanka/San Francisco:
The Voice of NOW in an Ancient Poetic Form
Tuesday FEB 5
4:30 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 Street, $10/$5
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 Street, $10/$5
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, free
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 Street, $10/$5
an evening of poetry and performance
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Wanda Coleman and Brenda Coultas
Poetry Center Book Award reading
for Wanda Coleman's The World Falls Away
Thursday APRIL 4
4:30 pm @ the Poetry Center, HUM 512, SFSU
both poets will read their own work
free and open to the public
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Anselm Hollo, a Memorial Tribute
Saturday APRIL 6
4:00 pm @ CCA Graduate Writing Studio
195 DeHaro (at 15th Street)
California College of the Arts, San Francisco
free and open to the public
Co-sponsored by The Poetry Center
and the MFA Writing Program at CCA
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Vital Forms: Healing and the Arts of Crisis
Friday APRIL 19
Saturday APRIL 20
a two-day symposium featuring Eleni Stecopoulos
and special guests: Melissa Buzzeo, Thom Donovan,
Margit Gallanter, Bhanu Kapil, Beth Murray,
Pavlos Stavropoulos, david wolach
@ Subterranean Arthouse
2179 Bancroft Way, downtown Berkeley
• Friday 7-9:30 pm: talks & performances, $10/$5
• Saturday 2-4:30 pm: workshops integrating writing
with movement/somatic work, $10/$5
• Saturday 7-9:30: talks & performances, $10/$5
All-events ticket at door first evening, $25/$15
no one turned away for lack of funds
Poetics of Healing project, a collaboration between
Eleni Stecopoulos and the Poetry Center
is supported by the Creative Work Fund
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Clark Coolidge and Steve Dickison
Thursday APRIL 25
3:30 pm @ the Poetry Center, HUM 512, SFSU
an interview with Clark Coolidge
free and open to the public
Thursday APRIL 25
7:00 pm @ Meridian Gallery
535 Powell Street (above Sutter), San Francisco, $10/$5
a reading
free for SFSU students, Poetry Center members
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Postmodern American Poetry
a group reading for the new 2nd edition of
the Norton Anthology, with editor Paul Hoover
and 17 West Coast poets
Friday MAY 3
6:30 pm @ Koret Auditorium, M.H. DeYoung Memorial Museum
50 Hagiwara Tea Garden Drive, Golden Gate Park
free admission
co-sponsored by the DeYoung Museum and The Poetry Center
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Cloud Shepherd, with special guests
India Cooke and Will Alexander
an evening of improvised music
Saturday MAY 4
7:00 pm @ Meridian Gallery
535 Powell Street (above Sutter), San Francisco, $10/$5
free for SFSU students, Poetry Center members
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How to Live on the Planet Earth
a celebration of Nanao Sakaki
on the publication of his Collected Poems
featuring Gary Snyder, Joanne Kyger, Michael McClure,
Malcolm Margolin, Jane Hirshfield, Gary Lawless
with guest emcee Patricia Wakida
Friday MAY 10
7:00 pm @ McRoskey Mattress Company
1687 Market (at Gough)
co-sponsored by The Poetry Center and The Green Arcade
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Nikky Finney
a rare San Francisco reading by acclaimed
2011 National Book Award poet
"...one of the most anticipated
events of the year..."
SF Weekly
Saturday MAY 18
7:00 pm @ Unitarian Center
1187 Franklin (at Geary), San Francisco
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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.
YOUR DONATION
supports our programs.
Alternately, checks can be mailed to:
The Poetry Center
San Francisco State University
1600 Holloway Avenue
San Francisco CA 94132
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