Archive Catalog 1954-2004

Wall Eamonn: November 8, 1997
(see Group Readings, Irish Poets at Bay Area Book Festival)

Elsa Rediva E'der: March 6, 1997
(see Group Readings, "Returning a Borrowed Tongue: Filipino and Filipino American Poetry" reading)

Erik Ehn: March 24, 1994
29 minutes, VHS, $25.00
Erik Ehn taught playwriting at SFSU. He is the author of numerous plays, including Wolf at the Door, and the musical AOK. Here he reads from Nacre, Redeemer Soup, Incide, Gravity's Drain, and Pain. Rosemary Catacalos introduces Ehn and Thaisa Frank, at J. Paul Leonard Library, SFSU.

Terry Ehret: November 4, 1993
31 minutes, VHS, $25.00
Carolyn Kizer selected Terry Ehret's debut collection of poems, Lost Body, for the National Poetry Series. Ehret has an MA in Creative Writing from SFSU. Here she reads "In Dying a Woman Becomes Her Hair," "World in Need of Braiding," "Woman Flapping in the Wind," "Lost Body," "Papyrus: A Temporary Journey," and "Narrations Leading to the Number Nine." Rosemary Catacalos introduces Ehret and Elmaz Abinader, at J. Paul Leonard Library, SFSU.

Lars Eighner: May 18, 1995
22 minutes, VHS, $25.00
In a Writing and Community Series event entitled "Marginal Living," fiction writer Lars Eighner reads from his autobiography, Travels with Lizbeth. Rosemary Catacalos introduces Eighner and Sigrid Nunez, and Wendy Lesser moderates a discussion between the authors, at Delancy Street Foundation.

Larry Eigner: November 29, 1984
30 minutes, VHS, $25.00
Poet Larry Eigner reads from Water/Places/A Time, selected by Beverly Dahlen to receive The Poetry Center Book Award for 1983. Jim Hartz introduces Eigner and Tina Darragh, at SFSU.

Barbara Einzig: October 15, 1987
50 minutes, VHS, $25.00
Poet and translator Barbara Einzig reads poems from Life Moves Outside and Robinson Crusoe: A New Fiction. She also reads from her translation of Zangezi, by Velemir Khlebnikov, a work composed in the Siberian shamanic oral tradition. Frances Phillips introduces Einzig and Stephen Ratcliffe, at SFSU.

Elaine Equi: May 4, 2000
35 minutes, VHS, $25.00
Elaine Equi reads "Armani Weather," "Pink Shutters," "Letter of Recommendation," "Wang Wei's Moon," "Monologue: Frank O'Hara," "Voice-Over," and "From Lorine" from her book of poetry Voice-Over, selected by poet Thom Gunn for The 1998 Poetry Center Book Award. From manuscript, Equi also reads "National Poetry Month," "Wittgenstein's Colors," "My Taste," "New Age Diary," "The Burden of Bad Objects," "Takeout Fantasy," "Lean To," and "A Bend in the Light." Steve Dickison introduces Thom Gunn, who introduces Elaine Equi, at The Poetry Center.

Kenward Elmslie: March 6, 1975
50 minutes, VHS, $25.00
Kenward Elmslie is a poet, a lyricist for the theater, an opera librettist, and a novelist. His theater works include The Grass Harp, a musical play based on Truman Capote's novel, and his opera librettos include Lizzie Borden and Washington Square. Here he performs the songs "Alaska Blues" and "The Woolworth Song," and reads the poems "Stolen Dreams," "Time Lags," "Two Topiary Poems: 'Flashback' & 'Bob and Wheel'," "At the Controls," "Easter for Anne," "Long Haul," "Jan 24," and "Motor Disturbance." Kathleen Fraser introduces Elmslie, Ted Berrigan, and Keith Abbott, at SFSU.

Kenward Elmslie: November 10, 1983
45 minutes, VHS, $25.00
Kenward Elmslie performs the songs "Alaska," "El Zebra Club," "King Ludwig's Song," "Eggs," "Fujiyama." "Squatter in the Foreground," "Brazil," "Who'll Prop Me Up In the Rain?" and "Love Letter." He also reads the poems "Experts at Veneers" and "Stage Duo." Ann Lauterbach is the co-reader.

Kenward Elmslie: March 1, 1990
60 minutes, VHS, $25.00
Kenward Elmslie performs selected pieces of musical theater from several of his compilations, including Sung Sex, Night Emerald, Palais Bimbo, and 26 Bars. Robert Glück introduces Elmslie and poet David Trinidad, at the San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery.

Kenward Elmslie: March 4, 2001
(see Group Readings, Homage to Joe Brainard)

Stephen Emerson: November 22, 1983
40 minutes, VHS, $25.00
Stephen Dawson reads the stories "Race Records," "Anchorage," "Bruxism," "After Fellini," and "Terpsichore." Jim Hartz introduces Emerson and Fielding Dawson, at SFSU.

Theodore Enslin: February 12, 1987
40 minutes, VHS, $25.00
Theodore Enslin visits The Peotry Center from his home in rural Maine. He reads "Music for Several Occasions," "Rondo," "Slow Theme with Nine Variations," "Who Killed Cock Robin," "What Is Within Us that We Do Not Know?", "A Morning Still a Little Dark," and "Field of Flowers." Frances Phillips introduces Enslin and William Oandasan, at SFSU.

Clayton Eshleman, Robert Kelly, Paul Blackburn: April 11, 1969
90 minutes, Audiocassette, $15.00
Original Poetry Center Archives recording.

Clayton Eshleman: December 5, 1979
60 minutes, VHS, $25.00
In a program entitled "Three Translators of Latin American Poetry," Clayton Eshleman reads translations of Cesar Vallejo's posthumously published poems written in Paris between 1923 and 1937. Frances Mayes introduces Eshleman and the other participants, James Leigh and Virginia de Araujo, at SFSU.

Clayton Eshleman: February 13, 1986
76 minutes, VHS, $25.00
Poet, translator, and editor Clayton Eshleman reads "A Kind of Moisture on the Wall" and Visions of the Fathers at Lascaux, at SFSU.

Martín Espada: October 22, 1998
70 minutes, VHS, $25.00
In collaboration with Intersection for the Arts, The Poetry Center presents poet Martín Espada. He reads "When Songs Become Water," "Coca Cola and Coca Frio," "Who Burns for the Perfection of the Paper," "Mi Vida: Wings of Fright," "Another Nameless Prostitute Says the Man is Innocent." "Mariano Explains Yankee Colonialism to Judge Collings," "For the Jim Crow Mexican Restaurant in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Where My Cousin Estéban was Forbidden to Wait Tables Because He Wears Dreadlocks," "Thanksgiving," "DSS Dream," and from his fifth book, Imagine the Angels of Bread, "My Cockroach Lover," "The Meaning of the Shovel," "My Native Costume," "The Prisoners of Saint Lawrence," "Her Toolbox," "Because Clemente Means Merciful," "Hands Without Irons Become Butterflies," and "Imagine the Angels of Bread." The reading is followed by a Q & A. Jewelle Gomez introduces Espada, at Intersection for the Arts.

Marta Estrella: March 10, 1972
(see Group Readings, La Raza Reading)

Jerry Estrin: October 6, 1983
25 minutes, VHS, $25.00
Poet Jerry Estrin reads from "The Snow Conversations," a sequence in prose and verse collected in his book, in motion speaking. Jim Hartz introduces Estrin, at SFSU.

Jerry Estrin: A Memorial Reading: June 27, 1993
(see Group Readings)

George Evans: November 20, 1986
35 minutes, VHS, $25.00
Poet George Evans reads from Nightvision, Wrecking, and Sudden Dreams. Frances Phillips introduces Evans and Jack Marshall, at the Blakeslee Room, SFSU.

George Evans: March 19, 1992
30 minutes, VHS, $25.00
Poet George Evans, editor of Charles Olson & Cid Corman: Complete Correspondence, 1950-1964 and the founder of Streetfare Journal, which displays art and poetry on buses throughout the U.S., reads "Lost in the Dark," "Nuclear Sonnet," "Uji," "Nara, The Ancient Capitol," "The Missing Sunflower," "Is War," "Is War At Home," "Neo Earth Mama," "Thelonius of Market Street," "Miss America," and "Concrete Chicken." Rosemary Catacalos introduces Evans and Carol Snow, in the Blakeslee Room, SFSU.

Brother Antoninus [William Everson]: July, 1955
31 minutes, Audiocassette, $15.00
Original Poetry Center Archives recording.

William Everson: July, 1955
(see Brother Antoninus, under "A" above)

William Everson: January 25, 1965
The NET Outtake Series
55 minutes, VHS, $50.00
As part of the NET Outtake Series from USA: Poetry, produced by KQED betweem 1965 and 1966, William Everson-also known as Brother Antoninus-reads "Canticle to the Waterbirds," "What Birds Were There," "The Way of Life and the Way of Death (Part I)," and "In All These Acts." He discusses these poems throughout the program.

William Everson: May 15, 1974
(see Group Readings, "Poets of the Forties")

William Everson: December 15, 1976
45 minutes, VHS, $25.00
For 18 years William Everson had been Brother Antoninus, of the Dominican Order. After leaving the Order, he lived in Stinson Beach and Davenport, California, where he was the poet-in-residence for Kresge College at UC Santa Cruz. Here he reads River-Root, including a long preface. Sotere Torregian is the co-reader, at SFSU.

Peter Everwine: May 10, 1973
25 minutes, VHS, $25.00
Poet and translator Peter Everwine won the Lamont Poetry Selection for 1972 for his debut collection, Collecting the Animals. Here he reads "At the Playground: Singing for Psychiatric Outpatients," "Looking into Things Clearly," "The Brother," "Drinking Cold Water," "Back from the Fields," "The Short Novel," "Someone Knocks," "Learning to Speak," "You Live the Song," "Thus He Left," "Gray Morn," "The Burden of Decision," and "Evening Distance." At SFSU.

Exercises for Ear: May 17, 1991
XX minutes, VHS, $25.00
An evening of original word and music performance works, curated by musician Dave Barrett, at Small Press Distribution, in Berkeley.


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