Archive Catalog 1954-2004

Marilyn Hacker: May 4, 1977
50 minutes, VHS, $25.00
Marilyn Hacker reads "Learning Distances," "Before the War," "Attack on the Iron Coast," "The Sea Coming Indoors," "Forage Sestina," "Untoward Occurrence at Embassy Poetry Reading," "Sisterhood, for Dora Fitzgerald," "Elegy, for Janis Joplin," "Poem for Edwin Dickinson," "The Life of a Female Artist is Full of Vicissitudes," "Catherine Pregnant," "Catherine Married," "Geography," "Conte," and "Why We Are Going Back to Paradise Island." Kathleen Fraser introduces Hacker and Charlotte Painter, at SFSU.

Marilyn Hacker: October 7, 1999
24 minutes, VHS, $25.00
In one of several events marking the centennial year of San Francisco State University, poet Marilyn Hacker reads "Sisterhood" for Dora FitzGerald, "Iva's Pantoum," and "The Robber Woman." She proceeds with selections from a series of short poems-an homage to poet Hayden Carruth-under the title "Paragraphs from a Day Book" and concludes with the poem "Alto Solo." Steve Dickison introduces Hacker and Maxine Chernoff, Melba Pattilo Beals, and Greg Sarris, at SF Main Public Library, Koret Auditorium.

Jessica Hagedorn & The West Coast Gangster Choir: October 30, 1975
55 minutes, Audiocassette, $15.00
Original Poetry Center Archives recording.

Jessica Hagedorn & The West Coast Gangster Choir: October 30, 1975
55 minutes, VHS, $25.00
Jessica Hagedorn was born in the Philippines and emigrated to the United States when she was fourteen. She was one of the Four Young Women published by Herder & Herder in an anthology edited by Kenneth Rexroth in 1973. Her musical, Chiquita Banana, was telecast by KQED in 1973 as well. Hagedorn appears in performance with her band, The West Coast Gangster Choir. She performs "Dancing," "Solea," "Souvenirs," "For Smokey Robinson," "Song for My Father," "Natural Death," "Canto de Nada," and "Trying to Pull a Fast One." Lewis MacAdams introduces Hagedorn and Michael Brownstein, at SFSU.

Kimiko Hahn: November 18, 1993
29 minutes, VHS, $25.00
Kimiko Hahn's books include Earshot and Air Pocket. She's received NEA and New York Foundation for the Arts fellowships, and teaches at Queens College in New York. Here she reads from The Unbearable Heart. Aaron Shurin introduces Hahn and Alfred Arteaga, at J. Paul Leonard Library, SFSU.

Donald Hall: October 27, 1976
43 minutes, VHS, $25.00
Poet, fiction writer, playwright, editor, and essayist Donald Hall reads "Old Home Day," "My Son, My Executioner," "Reclining Figure," "Gold," "The Man in the Dead Machine," "To a Waterfowl," "Eating the Pig," "Ox Cart Man," "Names of Horses," "Wolf Knife," "O Cheese," and "Kicking the Leaves." Lewis MacAdams introduces Hall and Tom Clark, in the Barbary Coast Room, SFSU.

Donald Hall: April 20, 1986
54 minutes, VHS, $25.00
Donald Hall is a poet, a playwright, and editor, an essayist, and a writer of children's fiction. Here he reads from his 1986 collection of poems, The Happy Man. Frances Phillips introduces Hall, at SFSU.

Donald Hall: March 28, 1996
50 minutes, VHS, $25.00
Donald Hall's recent collection of poems, The One Day, received the National Book Critics Circle Award. Among his critical collections are the influential Goatfoot Milktongue Twinbird and Poetry and Ambition. Here he reads from Otherwise: New and Selected Poems by Jane Kenyon, The Old Life, and Old and New Poems. Rosemary Catacalos introduces Hall, at the First Unitarian Church.

Alan Halsey: March 21, 2002
30 minutes, VHS, $25.00
The Poetry Center presents an evening with English poets Alan Halsey, Geraldine Monk, and Martin Corless-Smith. Alan Halsey reads "Song Cycle 1991," "After Spicer," and "Coherent Light" from Wittgenstein's Devil: Selected Writing 1978-1998. Steve Dickison introduces the poets, at The Unitarian Center. Note: image is missing (sound recording only) last several minutes of tape.

Forrest Hamer: November 11, 1999
24 minutes, VHS, $25.00
Forrest Hamer, poet and lecturer in psychology and social welfare at UC Berkeley, reads "Twelve," "Arrival," "Middle Ear," "Allegiance," "The Calling," "Getting Happy," and "Goldsboro Narrative #24: Second Benediction" from his first book of poetry, Call and Response, winner of the Beatrice Hawley Award. Steve Dickison introduces Hamer and Debra Kang Dean, at The Poetry Center.

Sam Hamill: April 23, 1992
37 minutes, VHS, $25.00
Sam Hamill is the editor of Copper Canyon Press. He has published over forty books of poetry, translations, and essays. Here he reads from Only Companion, The Infinite Moment, Anacreon, Amatory Poems, Paulus Silentiarius, Epigrams, Fatal Pleasure, Mandala, and The Nootka Rose. Rosemary Catacalos introduces Hamill and Jane Hirshfield, at J. Paul Leonard Library, SFSU.

Patricia Hampl: February 6, 1980
30 minutes, VHS, $25.00
Patricia Hampl reads "Coldness," "Mother Daughter Dance," "Charlotte's Web," "The Car in the Picture," "Fortune Teller," "An Artist Draws a Peach," "Elegy for the Burned," and a short story, "Look at a Teacup." Frances Mayes introduces Hampl and Coleman Barks, at SFSU.

Q.R. Hand: February 25, 1983
15 minutes, VHS, $25.00
Q.R. Hand was born in Brooklyn in 1937. His poems have been published in many magazines, including Clay Drum, Black Scholar, and The Bay View. He has lived, worked, and given many poetry readings in San Francisco neighborhoods and at political gatherings since 1969. Here he reads such poems as "waitin' for the bus on third street, hunters point," "when I was in school," "see the slow drag before the dawn," "devolution," "prayer for when they pushed the button," " "how sweet it is," and "each time." Genny Lim and Juan Felipe Herrera are the co-readers, at Gallery Space, San Francisco.

Susan Hansell: November 17, 1988
24 minutes, VHS, $25.00
Writer and performance artist Susan Hansell performs "Drop It" and "A Day In." Robert Glück intoduces Hansell and Xam Cartiér, at The San Francisco Art Commission Gallery.

Ron Hansen: September 15, 1994
22 minutes, VHS, $25.00
Ron Hansen's novels include Desperadoes, The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, and Mariette in Ecstasy. Here he reads from an untitled novel-in-progress. Michelle Carter introduces Hansen and Maxine Chernoff.

Victor Davis Hanson: April 2, 1998
47 min.
Victor Davis Hanson is a professor of Greek at CSU Fresno and a fifth generation grape farmer. In a California Writer Series event featuring the photographs of Matthew Black, Hanson reads from his award-winning work of nonfiction, Fields Without Dreams: Defending the Agrarian Idea. Mark Arax is the co-reader, at The San Francisco Art Commission Gallery.

Joy Harjo: September 26, 1985
32 minutes, VHS, $25.00
Poet, musician, and activist Joy Harjo reads, "White Bear," "New Orleans," "The Woman Hanging From the Thirteenth Floor Window," "Summer Night," "Transformations," "We Must Call a Meeting," "She Had Some Horses," "I Give You Back," and "Eagle Poem." Frances Phillips introduces Harjo and Paul Portuges.

Joy Harjo: February 6, 1996
Lannan Literary Video Series
60 minutes, VHS, $19.95
Joy Harjo, born in Tulsa, Oklahoma, in 1951, is an enrolled member of the Muscogee Tribe. She read from The Woman Who Fell from the Sky, Secrets from the Center of the World, In Mad Love and War, and She Had Some Horses. Joy Harjo, who is a founder of the band Poetic Justice, played her tenor saxophone during her reading. A talk with Greg Sarris follows.

Jana Harris: April 9, 1981
30 minutes, VHS, $25.00
Novelist and poet Jana Harris reads "When Momma Came Here as a Gold Panner," "Song of the Sitka Wind," "The Last Voyage of the Viola Bell," "Si-la, a Chant," "Hanna to Antony Blowing Out the Wick of a Kerosene Lamp," "The Poet Who Wrote Novels," "Tight Denim Jeans," "Lady in a Hundred Dollar Car One Night on the Side of the Road," "Elena, Elena I Almost Got Killed," "Going Home Alone," and "Beneath the Pole of Proud Raven." Frances Mayes introduces Harris and C. K. Williams.

Robert Harris: February 16, 1977
54 minutes, VHS, $25.00
Robert Harris reads "Sonia Gets Off Work, "Sonia Entertains," "The Definition of Things in Terms of Their Modes of Definition," "Solange," and other pieces from She Who is Alive, at SFSU.

Bob Harrison: May 9, 2002
(see Group Readings, Crayon magazine reading)

Lou Harrison: April 22, 1992
20 minutes, VHS, $25.00
Lou Harrison celebrates his 75th birthday with a reading of his poetry. His musical compositions have been performed around the world, and include commissions by the Cabrillo Music Festival, Brooklyn Academy of Music, and San Francisco Chamber Music Society. Rosemary Catacalos introduces Harrison and Jack Foley.

Carla Harryman: July 28, 1980
60 minutes, VHS, $25.00
Nick Robinson directs a performance of Carla Harryman's play, Third Man, with SF Poets Theater members Eileen Corder, Lyn Hejinian, Steven Paul La Voie, Kit Robinson, Alan Bernheimer, Johanna Drucker, Steve Benson, and Greg Goodman. Andrea Hassiba is the set designer, with lighting by Diane Hall.

Carla Harryman: November 4, 1982
30 minutes, VHS, $25.00
Carla Harryman reads "Property," "Possession." "Beginning to End," "Two Oceans," "Animal Instincts," and "Epilogue" from her second collection of poems, Property. Tom Mandel introduces Harryman and Alan Davies, at SFSU.

Carla Harryman: September 28, 1989
40 minutes, VHS, $25.00
Prose writer and playwright Carla Harryman reads from her book "There Is Nothing Better Than A Theory." Margaret Crane and Scott McLeod also perform. Robert Glück makes the introductions, at The San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery.

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

Grace Harwood: October 2, 1974
47 minutes, VHS, $25.00
Grace Harwood reads the poems "My Name Is Ralph Edwards, And This Is Your Life," "The Great Fat Universal Mother Is Alive And Writing In San Anselmo," "A Poet's Prayer," "To My Lover That I Love," "With Love And Tent Pole Shavings," "When you were leaving Friday night...," "Southern Pacific, San Francisco to Palo Alto, January 24, 1974," "Evening, Ocean, Sky, and History" by William Wantling, "The Vacant Room," and "For An Especially Bro Dave And All My Other Trials, With Love." Kathleen Fraser introduces Harwood, Judy Grahn and Diane Wakoski, at S.F. Museum of Art.

Lee Harwood: March 15, 1984
42 minutes, VHS, $25.00
British poet Lee Harwood reads "U.S.A. You O.K.," "Claret," "Monster Masks," "Alpine Mastiffs Reanimating A Distressed Traveler," "A Child's View Of Railways," "'Evasive Action Like An Enclosed Courtyard' By Crivelli," and "Assorted Stories." Summer Brenner is the co-reader, in the Student Union, SFSU.

Gerald Haslam: February 9, 1995
29 minutes, VHS, $25.00
Gerald Haslam is a native Californian whose work as both a writer and editor has focused primarily on the experiences of people living in California's Central Valley. As part of the California Writers Series, he reads the stories "The Horned Toad" and "It's Over." Rosemary Catacalos introduces Haslam and Mary Helen Ponce.

Robert Hass: October 11, 1979
60 minutes, VHS, $25.00
Born in Marin County, Robert Hass studied at Stanford University and won the Yale Younger Poets award in 1973 for his debut collection, Field Guide. Here he reads poems collected in his book Praise. Frances Mayes introduces Hass and Carolyn Kizer, in the Barbary Coast Room, SFSU.

Robert Hass: April 24, 1983
(see Group Readings, George Oppen 75th Birthday Tribute)

Robert Hass: February 9, 1984
39 minutes, VHS, $25.00
Poet Robert Hass reads "Spring Drawings," "Rusia en 1931," "Museum," "Quartet," "Paschal Lamb," "Tall Windows," and "A Century of Clouds," later retitled "Berkeley Ecologue." Maxine Kumin is the co-reader.

Robert Hass: September 9, 1993
35 minutes, VHS, $25.00
Poet Robert Hass is the recipient of both MacArthur and Guggenheim fellowships and currently teaches at UC Berkeley. Here he reads "Privilege of Being" from Human Wishes and "Dragonflies Mating," "Our Lady of the Snows," "Interrupted Meditation," "Shame," and "Faint Music" from manuscript. Aaron Shurin introduces Hass and Brenda Hillman, at the Eye Gallery.

Robert Hass: October 22, 1998
Lannan Literary Video Series
90 minutes, VHS, $19.95
Robert Hass has published four collections of poetry, Sun Under Wood, Human Wishes, Praise, and Field Guide, as well as a book of essays, Twentieth Century Pleasures. His honors include a MacArthur Fellowship and a National Book Critics Circle Award. A talk with Jorie Graham follows.

Burton Hatlen: April 24, 1983
(see Group Readings, George Oppen 75th Birthday Tribute)

Stratis Haviaras: May 9, 1979
38 minutes, VHS, $25.00
Poet and novelist Stratis Haviaris is the author of four collections of poetry published in his native Greece. Since moving to the United States, he has published a collection of poetry, Crossing the River Twice, and a novel, When the Tree Sings, in English. Here he reads "I Will Take This Chair," "Under the Apple Tree," "Brief Exchange," "The House Is On Fire," "This Land," "The Dawn and the City," "The Funeral Service," "She Didn't Feel Like Talking," "The Mansion Beneath the Sea," "Growing," "Words," and "All Stories Are Good." Michael Palmer introduces Haviaris, in the Barbary Coast Room, SFSU.

John Hawkes: March 24, 1988
60 minutes, VHS, $25.00
John Hawkes, who passed away in 1998, was the author of seventeen novels, including Second Skin, Adventures in the Alaskan Skin Trade, Whistlejacket, and An Irish Eye. In the first of two events, Hawkes is interviewed by SFSU professor, Geoffrey Green, At SFSU.

John Hawkes: March 25, 1988
60 minutes, VHS, $25.00
In the second of two events, novelist John Hawkes reads from Adventures in the Alaskan Skin Trade and his novella, Innocence in Extremis. Geoffrey Green introduces Hawkes.

Bobbie Louise Hawkins: February 14, 1974
25 minutes, VHS, $25.00
Bobbie Louise Hawkins grew up in Texas, studied art in London, taught at missionary schools in British Honduras, attended a Jesuit university in Tokyo while acting on radio and stage, and had her first one-woman show of paintings and collages at Gotham Book Mart in New York in 1974, the year of this reading. Here she is joined by poet Barbara Guest for an afternoon poetry reading on the campus of SFSU. Kathleen Fraser makes the introductions.

Bobbie Louise Hawkins: November 12, 1975
60 minutes, VHS, $25.00
Poet, writer, painter, actress, and disc jockey Bobbie Louise Hawkins reads eight poems from the collection, Back to Texas: "When I was little the cousin I dearly loved was Donald Gene...," "Preston stuck his foot up in the air...," "Thirty-thirty's what they usually use...," "We was settin' there...," "Cousin Preston," "There's a running set of lies...," "How to Prepare Liver," and "I telephoned my mother...." Lewis MacAdams introduces Hawkins and storyteller Dale Herd, at SFSU.

Bobbie Louise Hawkins: October 29, 1983
60 minutes, VHS, $25.00
Bobbie Louise Hawkins reads "Doing Psychology" and "The Child" from Almost Everything. From The Marketplace, she reads "A Bus Ride in Guatemala," "Don Alessandro and His Gun," "A Moral Tale," and "Winston County," at SFSU.

Seamus Heaney: October 15, 1991
Lannan Literary Video Series
60 minutes, VHS, $19.95
Seamus Heaney's poetry bears witness to Ireland's complex, violent past and present, articulating the conflicts and tender mercies inherent in human experience. Mr. Heaney, who received the Nobel Prize, read from Selected Poems 1966-1987 and talked with Michael Silverblatt.

Vicki Hearne: September 11, 1980
30 minutes, VHS, $25.00
Vicki Hearne read "Riding a Nervous Horse," "Purity of Diction," "Rebreaking Outlaw Horses in the Desert," "Montana Mules," "St. George and the Dragon: Piecing It All Together," "Out to Pasture," "The Metaphysical Horse," "Letter from Thumber to Hippocampus," and "The Heart of the Rapist." Margaret Cesa and Buff Bradley are the co-readers, at SFSU.

Jennifer Heath: November 5, 2001
(see Group Readings, "What is Afghanistan?")

Larry Heinemann: March 12, 1990
Lannan Literary Video Series
60 minutes, VHS, $19.95
Larry Heinemann was inducted into the Army in 1966, served as a combat infantry-man in Vietnam, and returned home "radicalized." Paco's Story is his novel about the homecoming of a Vietnam veteran for which Mr. Heinemann received a National Book Award. Larry Heinemann read from Paco's Story. An interview by Ken Lincoln follows.

Lyn Hejinian: October 17, 1974
27 minutes, VHS, $25.00
Poet Lyn Hejinian reads "Ancient Traveler," "Walking and Writing," "Like the Early Naturalist in a Field of Things," "Wherever You Go Don't Look Back," "A Momentary Thing," "The Makeshift," "The Responsibility," "One Context," "Second of the Process Pieces," "The Integrity," "How We Like Our Homes," "The Conclusion," "An Opening Gesture," and "For Larry." Kathleen Fraser introduces Hejinian and Ruth Lechlitner, at SFSU.

Lyn Hejinian: May 16, 1979
60 minutes, VHS, $25.00
One Side Around-now published under the title My Life-poet and writer Lyn Hejinian reads "poem 28," "miles will continue local...," "windows is screens...," "rupting blasphemy...," "Lower Roth the Colors," "Seven," "Do You Know Sutter's Gold," "Not That Car," and "Redo." Tom Mandel introduces Hejinian and Barbara Guest, at Hansen-Fuller Gallery, SF.

Lyn Hejinian: February 7, 1985
37 minutes, VHS, $25.00
Lyn Hejinian reads from "Redo" and "The Person." Jim Hartz introduces Hejinian and Ron Padgett, at SFSU.

Lyn Hejinian: February 9, 1989
40 minutes, VHS, $25.00
The Poetry Center presents Lyn Hejinian, chosen by Michael Palmer to receive the Poetry Center Book Award for her book My Life (revised edition from Sun & Moon), reading and in conversation with Tom Raworth. Hejinian reads from The Cell. Barrett Watten introduces Hejinian and Raworth, at The San Francisco Art Commission Gallery.

Lyn Hejinian: December 8, 1994
74 minutes, VHS, $25.00
Poet Lyn Hejinian delivers the 10th annual George Oppen Memorial Lecture on Twentieth Century Poetics. Her talk is entitled "The Numerous: Oppen's Affirmation." Aaron Shurin introduces Hejinian, at The Eye Gallery.

Michael Heller: November 14, 1985
40 minutes, VHS, $25.00
Poet and scholar Michael Heller reads "Born in Water," "In a Dark Time, On His Grandfather," "Partitions," "With a Telescope in the Sangre De Cristo," "After Class," "Moon Study," "Asthma," "Choral Stanzas," "Marginalia in Desperate Hand," "Post Insertion Omni Triste," "Statue, Jardin du Luxembourg," "On A Line From Baudelaire," "For Uncle Nat," "Mamaloshon," "Accidental Meeting with an Israeli Poet," "Palestine," and "A Night for Chinese Poets" from In The Builded Place. Frances Phillips introduces Heller and Carl Rakosi, at SFSU.

Michael Heller: November 17, 1985
44 minutes, VHS, $25.00
Michael Heller delivers the inaugural George Oppen Memorial Lecture, an event made possible by a donation from Frances Jaffer and Mark Linenthal and sustained in part by the George Oppen Memorial Lecture Endowment, established by Robert Glück. Heller's lecture, "'Knowledge is Loneliness Turning': George Oppen's Going Down Middle Voice," is followed by a question-and-answer session, First Unitarian Church.

Michael Heller: June 24, 1986
34 minutes, VHS, $25.00
Poet Michael Heller reads "Statue, Jardin du Luxembourg," "Climb to an Ancient Chateau in France," "On a Line From Baudelaire," "After Class," "Heteroglossia on 53rd," "Moon Study," "Photograph of a Man Holding His Penis," "Asthma," "Choral Stanzas," "At Beaches Again," "The American Jewish Clock," "Mamaloshon," "Palestine," and "Water Heads Hamptons" from In the Builded Place. Roberto Bedoya introduces Heller and Edith Jenkins.

Essex Hemphill: October 19, 1989
(see Group Reading, "(This Is Not) An AIDS Reading")

David Henderson: March 10, 1976
40 minutes, VHS, $25.00
Accompanied by the Ghetto Violence Jazz Band, David Henderson sings "De Mayor of Harlem," "Hail to the Chief," "Makes No Difference," "Crossroads," "Roaches in My Cadillac," "Egyptian Book of the Dead," and "Ruckus Poem." Lorenzo Thomas is the co-reader, at SFSU.

David Henderson: March 26, 1981
30 minutes, VHS, $25.00
David Henderson reads "Caravan," "What Burt Says," "Burgundy Street," "In Williams," "The Mural of the Station," "Big Red," "Song of Devotion to the Forest," "Alchemical Notebook #3," "Sally," "Virgo," "I Got to Keep on Dancin'," "Manifest Destiny," "Sal Maglie," and "California Thirteen." Frances Mayes introduces Henderson and Dara Wier, at SFSU.

David Henderson: March 2, 1985
40 minutes, VHS, $25.00
David Henderson performs "Slugs in the Far East" and many pieces from The Low East, including "Prose," "Third Eye World," "African Engineers," "Portals of the Road," "Robert Johnson," "Reuben Belacourt Speaks to the Future of Los Indios of Wounded Knee," "The New York Times," "American Dates," "Diagonal," "Megatomic Life," and "You Are Doing Business with South Africa." Jim Hartz introduces Henderson and Sister Goodwin.

Frank Herbert: July 25, 1977
90 minutes, VHS, $25.00
Frank Herbert participates in a science fiction workshop and discussion. Frances Mayes introduces Herbert and the co-participants, novelists Ben Bova and Jack Vance, at SFSU.

Dale Herd: November 12, 1975
60 minutes, VHS, $25.00
Dale Herd, a young poet-storyteller from Redondo Beach, California, writes bizzarre stories in which the ordinary is transformed into the alarming. He reads a number of these stories from his collections Early Morning Wind and Diamonds: "Army," "Gunner," "Toda M. Vida," "Toda M. Vida Loco," "White Folks," "Luck," "I Tried My Best," "Closed Doors in the Soul," "The Mary Magdalene Suite," "Demolitions Expert," "Bellflower Boulevard," and "Blood." Lewis MacAdams introduces Herd and Bobbie Louise Hawkins, at SFSU.

Dale Herd: November 16, 1982
80 minutes, VHS, $25.00
Fiction writer Dale Herd is the author of such collections of short stories as Early Morning Wind and Diamonds. Here he rehearses and performs a dramatization of his short novel-in-progress, Dreamland Court, in two parts, at Valencia Rose Café.

Calvin C. Hernton: November 16, 1977
55 minutes, VHS, $25.00
Calvin Hernton reads "Hands," "Low Down and Sweet," "Jitterbugging in the Streets," "Elements of Grammar," "The Point," and "Brighton." Ishmael Reed introduces Hernton and Curtis Lyle, at The New College of California.

Juan Felipe Herrera: February 25, 1983
23 minutes, VHS, $25.00
Juan Felipe Herrera is the author of many poetry collections, including Love After the Riots, Loteria Cards and Fortune Poems: A Book of Lives, Border-Crosser with a Lamborghini Dream, Thunderweavers, and Giraffe on Fire. Here he reads "A Report from the Metropolis," "Papaya," "Children of Space," "My Name is X," "Senorita Black Velvet Latina," "Are You Doing That New Amerikan Thing?" and "Mission Street Manifesto." Q.R. Hand and Genny Lim are the co-readers, at Gallery Space.

Juan Felipe Herrera: October 5, 1995
20 minutes, VHS, $25.00
In a Writing and Community Series event entitled "Into the Mix: Writing Race and Culture," poet Truong Tran moderates a discussion between Michelle Cliff and Juan Felipe Herrera on the topic of writing the Other. Juan Felipe Herrera reads from Alphabet. Rosemary Catacalos introduces the panel, at SF Public Library, Excelsior Branch.

Pablo D. Herrera Veitia: April 25, 1996
30 minutes, VHS, $25.00
Translations of work by Pablo D. Herrera Veitia, Reina Maria Rodríguez, and Ismael González Castañer, read by translator Lauren Kerr, introduced by Rosemary Catacalos, at The Poetry Center.

Robert Hershon: November 12, 1987
40 minutes, VHS, $25.00
Poet and editor (Hanging Loose magazine and Hanging Loose Press) Robert Hershon reads poems from How to Ride on the Woodlawn Express. Frances Phillips introduces Hershon and Jane Miller, at The Blakeslee Room, SFSU.

Robert Hershon: November 6, 1997
36 minutes, VHS, $25.00
In a Writing and Community Series event, Robert Hershon reads his poems from Into a Punchline and, from manuscript, The German Lunatic. Jewelle Gomez introduces Hershon and Sherman Alexie, at the First Unitarian Church.

Michael Heyward: October 8, 1987
20 minutes, VHS, $25.00
Michael Heyward is co- founder of the Australian literary magazine Scripsi. In a reading by Australian poets and writers, he talks about being an editor. Lyn Tranter introduces Heyward and the co-readers, poet Laurie Duggan and novelist Helen Garner, at SFSU.

John High: October 28, 1999
35 minutes, VHS, $25.00
As part of The Poetry Center's Writing and Community series, poet and translator John High reads selections from his expansive opus The Desire Notebooks. Steve Dickison introduces High and the evening's co-reader, Zack Rogow, at Modern Times Bookstore.

Brenda Hillman: February 19, 1986
30 minutes, VHS, $25.00
Bay Area poet and teacher Brenda Hillman reads "Common Ground," "The Wooden Carousel," "Coffee, 3 AM," "Rare Animals Display," "Saguaro," "Chess," "No Greener Pastures," "Shulamite Girl," "Scott On Flight 559," and "Cleave and Cleave." Frances Phillips introduces Hillman and Michael Dennis Browne, at SFSU.

Brenda Hillman: September 9, 1993
31 minutes, VHS, $25.00
Poet Brenda Hillman teaches at St. Mary's College and has received many awards, including the Delmore Schwartz Memorial Award for Poetry. Here she reads poems from The White Dress and Bright Existence. Aaron Shurin introduces Hillman and Robert Hass, at the Eye Gallery.

Edward Hirsch: March 29, 1984
57 minutes, VHS, $25.00
Edward Hirsch's first book, For the Sleepwalkers, was nominated for a National Book Critics Circle Award in 1982. Here he reads "Still Life: An Argument," "How to Get Back to Chester," "At Kresge's Diner in Stonefalls, Arkansas," "Transfigured Night, Come Down to Me, Slowly," "Wild Gratitude," "Fever," "Recovery," "Portrait of the Artist with John Egner," and "Dawn Walk," in the Student Union, SFSU.

Jane Hirshfield: April 10, 1986
28 minutes, VHS, $25.00
Jane Hirshfield teachers in the California Poets in the Schools program in Marin County and was the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship. Here she reads poems from her collection, Of Gravity & Angels. Frances Phillips introduces Hirshfield and David St. John, in The Blakeslee Room, SFSU.

Jane Hirshfield: April 23, 1992
37 minutes, VHS, $25.00
Jane Hirschfield is the author of several collections of poetry and co-translator of The Ink Dark Moon: Love Poems by Komachi & Shikibu. Here she reads some of those translations, as well as poems from Of Gravity and Angels and The October Palace. Rosemary Catacalos introduces Hirshfield and Sam Hamill, J. Paul Leonard Library, SFSU.

Jane Hirshfield: September 14, 1995
48 minutes, VHS, $25.00
Jane Hirshfield's books include the poetry collections Of Gravity and Angels and The October Palace, winner of The Poetry Center Book Award for 1994. Here she reads poems from both of these collections, as well as from The Lives of the Heart. Toni Mirosevich introduces Hirshfield, at SFSU.

Jane Hirshfield: November 3, 1996
18 minutes, VHS, $25.00
The Poetry Center presents poets Jane Hirshfield and Bei Dao reading from their poetry. Hirshfield reads tranlations of Bei Dao's poems, as well as selections from Women in Praise of the Sacred, Of Gravity and Angels, The October Palace, and The Lives of the Heart. Toni Mirosevich introduces Hirshfield and Bei Dao.

Jack Hirschman: February 15, 2001
45 minutes, VHS, $25.00
San Francisco poet, translator, and activist Jack Hirshman reads "Homenaje to Gregory Corso," "One Day," "Truth is, the lightbulb...," "Thumb Music for El Salvador," "The Last Bet," "Twenty Months Wed," "In Memory of Jim Berg," his translations of Martin Heidegger's poems "The Candlestick" and "Signs," and from Arcani, "The Stone's Throw Arcane." Steve Dickison introduces Hirschman and David Meltzer, at the Unitarian Center.

George Hitchcock: February 21, 1974
30 minutes, VHS, $25.00
George Hitchcock reads the poems, "Song on Leaving the Bandstand," "The Forest," "The Man With The Wicker Cigar," "The Republic of Mexico," "Fugue and Variations," "May All the Earth Be Clothed in Light," "A Poem For Jean Varda," "Masque," "The One Whose Approach I Cannot Evade," "Commemoration Poem," and "The Song of Expectancy." Kathleen Fraser introduces Hitchcock and Philip Levine, at SFSU.

David Hoag: May 1, 1975
18 minutes, VHS, $25.00
Poet David Hoag reads "Saul and Laura-Their Music," "Atonement," "The Magus," "The Last Aristocrat," "Laura's Music," "American Pastorale," "Travelling Light," "Night Rider," and "Waiting for Mail" from his second book, Astro Labs. The co-readers are Leslie Scalapino and Summer Brenner, at SFSU.

Emmanuel Hocquard: May 14, 1987
40 minutes, VHS, $25.00
French poet Emmanuel Hocquard reads "Les Espions Thraces Dormaient Pres Des Vaisseux," "Vingt-Quatre Novembre," "Vingt-Sept Novembre," "Deux Mars," "Elegie Deux," "La Soupiere," "Et Toi," "Violettes Collines de Bethlehem, Theatre d'Ombre," and "Virgil, Virgil," with translations of his poems read by Michael Palmer and Norma Cole. Barrett Watten introduces Hocquard and Claude Royet-Journoud.

Emmanuel Hocquard: May 15, 1987
110 minutes, VHS, $25.00
French poets Claude Royet-Journoud and Emmanuel Hocquard give a talk entitled "A Craft of Ignorance." Barrett Watten introduces Hocquard and Royet-Journoud, along with translators Norma Cole and Michael Palmer.

Linda Hogan: October 22, 1993
50 minutes, VHS, $25.00
Linda Hogan, a member of the Chickasaw tribe, draws on her Native American heritage in both fiction and verse. She is a teacher and activist dedicated to wildlife rehabilitation. Here she reads from The Book of Medicines. Aaron Shurin introduces Hogan, at the Eye Gallery.

Linda Hogan: February 7, 1995
Lannan Literary Video Series
60 minutes, VHS, $19.95
Linda Hogan, a poet, novelist, and playwright, is a member of the Chickasaw Nation. She said, "My writing comes from and goes back to the community, both the human and the global community." Ms. Hogan received a Lannan Literary Award for Poetry in 1994. She read from The Book of Medicines, which was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. A talk with Wendy Rose follows.

Benjamin Hollander: November 5, 1994
(see Group Readings, "The Whole Matter of the Human: Voicing Difference in Poetry")

Benjamin Hollander: September 20, 2001
35 minutes, VHS, $25.00
Poet Benjamin Hollander reads Levinas and the Police, a strikingly imaginative long poem inspired in part by the Jewish Lithuanian philosopher Emmanuel Levinas's writings on ethics and the Other. His reading here incorporates the concluding scenes, and soundtrack music, from Carol Reed's film Odd Man Out. Steve Dickison introduces Hollander and Sarah Menefee, at The Unitarian Center.

Gad Hollander: April 13, 2000
25 minutes, VHS, $25.00
Gad Hollander, a poet and filmmaker living in London, makes his first Bay Area appearance. He reads selections from Walserian Waltzes, a long poem-in-prose inspired by the "minimal" fictions of German-Swiss writer Robert Walser. The reading was followed by a screening [not included here] of Hollander's film Diary of a Sane Man, the mythical story of a girl named Sara who is led by her grandfather through the mis-en-scene of a film being shot in Italy. Hollander is introduced by Steve Dickison, at Yerba Buena Gardens Center for the Arts.

Anselm Hollo: February 16, 1977
42 minutes, VHS, $25.00
Anselm Hollo reads his poems "the claim," "five and seven and five," "sensation 27," "between bouts," "on lake titicaca," "across the incredible static of time," "after Verlaine," "drinking some cheap but good champagne," "september nights," "black elk speaks," "double martini," "my first miss america," "when a poet feels like a sick owl," "strange encounter," "world, world, world," "no money," "classroom," "tremendous wind and rain," "motes," "landscape," "headline haiku," "bicentennial," and "waiting for you," at SFSU.

Anselm Hollo: October 18, 1982
35 minutes, VHS, $25.00
Poet Anselm Hollo, who has translated works by Brecht, Klee, Voznesensky, and many others, was born in Helsinki, Finland. Here he reads "It is a Well-Lit Afternoon," "In Love We Loaf, Munching Love's Loaf," "Across the Incredible Static, the Air of June Sings," "On the Occasion of Becoming an Echo," "Good Morning," "Once in Khairouan South of Tunis," "October 31," "What Wonders In That Circle Lie, Or, The Toad Story," "Gehenna," "Dirge," "Vik-Ja," and "In the Mission." Anne Waldman is the co-reader, at SFSU.

Anselm Hollo: November 27, 1988
22 minutes, VHS, $25.00
Poet Anselm Hollo reads many poems from his book Outlying Districts, including "L'enfance," "Heroic," "Headline," "Monumentally Self-deluded," "Slightly Defensive," "Idyll," "Too Much Money Or Wat It Honey," "Teacher," "Irritable Aliens," "Exciting Moments Of The Past #631," "End Of The Range," "Jeremiah Digest," "Space Baltic," "Local Color," "Great Moments Of The Past #863," and others. He also reads from "Minigolf, A Sequence." Robert Grenier is the co-reader, at SFSU.

Doug Holsclaw: November 12, 1992
8 minutes, VHS, $25.00
In a Writing and Community Series event entitled "Representing AIDS: Culture Struggle in the Gay Community," Michael Palmer moderates a presentation by writer Doug Holsclaw, performance artist Wayne Corbitt, and teacher and activist Jonathan Katz. Holsclaw was a contributing writer and co-director of the groundbreaking The AIDS Show: Artists Involved with Death and Survival, at Eureka Valley/Harvey Milk Memorial Branch Library.

Burghild Holzer: November 11, 1982
38 minutes, VHS, $25.00
Poet Burghild Holzer, a translator of the poetry of German Nobel Laureate Nelly Sachs, reads sections from her own manuscripts of poems, The Green Journal and The Permission to Paint. Franz Wright and Stefanie Marlis are the co-readers.

Garrett Hongo: May 16, 1977
(see Group Readings, Asian American Reading)

Garrett Hongo: February 21, 1991
100 minutes, VHS, $25.00
Poet Garrett Kaoru Hongo reads poems from Yellow Light, The River of Heaven and his Volcano Journal, at the time of the reading an unpublished prose collection. Carolyn Kizer interviews Hongo following the reading, at SFSU.

Garrett Hongo: March 12, 1993
(see Group Readings, "The Open Boat: Poems About Asian America" reading)

bell hooks in conversation with Amalia Mesa-Baines: October 17, 2000
90 minutes, VHS, $25.00
bell hooks-renowned writer, feminist, activist, and cultural critic-is the author of such influential books as Ain't I A Woman, Teaching to Transgress, and Killing Rage: Ending Racism. In the first of a two-day event co-sponsored by Intersection for the Arts, hooks discusses the writing of All About Love with Amalia Mesa-Baines. Amalia Mesa-Baines is the Director of Visual Arts at Cal State Monterey Bay. Kevin Chen introduces hooks and Mesa-Baines, at Intersection for the Arts.

bell hooks: October 18, 2000
75 minutes, VHS, $25.00
In the second of a two-day event co-sponsored by Intersection for the Arts, writer, feminist, and cultural critic bell hooks reads excerpts from Wounds of Passion and All About Love. In the Q & A that follows the reading, she discusses both her personal politics and the process of writing about love. Kevin Chan introduces hooks, Intersection for the Arts.

Paul Hoover: February 26, 1981
30 minutes, VHS, $25.00
Paul Hoover, a poet-in-residence at Columbia College and co-editor of New American Writing, reads "Piano for 88 Hands," "Rural Imagery," "Alive in 1950," "The Chinese Notebook," "Just Plain Beauty," "Some Definitions," "Thirty-Three," "The Eagerness," "Five Minutes, VHS, $25.00, VHS, $25.00Worth of Writing," and "Ode to the English Language." Frances Mayes introduces Hoover and Marilyn Krysl.

Paul Hoover: February 11, 1988
30 minutes, VHS, $25.00
Paul Hoover reads "Piano for 88 hands," "Poems We Can Understand," "Maudlin Confession," "Tribal Item," "Perils of the Form," "Long History of the Short Poem," "Heart of Darkness," "Subject Matter," "The Lover," "Sincerely, Mary Pickford," "The Baby," "The Dog," and excerpts from "The Novel." Frances Phillips introduces Hoover, at SFSU.

Paul Hoover: April 10, 1997
32 minutes, VHS, $25.00
Poet and writer Paul Hoover is Writer-in-Residence at Columbia College and editor of New American Writing. Tonight he reads from his sixth collection of poetry, Viridian. Toni Mirosevich introduces Hoover and Richard Tillinghast, at The Unitarian Center.

Robert Horan: May 15, 1974
(see Group Readings, "Poets of the Forties")

Joanna Hotchkiss: October 24, 1980
(see Group Readings, Rebound Project Benefit Reading)

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

Fanny Howe: May 2, 1979
20 minutes, VHS, $25.00
Poet and fiction writer Fanny Howe reads from her book of poetry, Poem From A Single Pallet, and from her novel, Holy Smoke. Tom Mandel introduces Howe and Bob Perelman, at the Barbary Coast Room, SFSU.

Fanny Howe: October 27, 1988
25 minutes, VHS, $25.00
Poet and writer Fanny Howe reads "All For Nothing," "The Vineyard," "In the Spirit There are No Accidents," "Gertrude's Garden," "Servitude," and "11/11." Robert Glück introduces Howe and Michael Amnasan, at The San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery.

Fanny Howe: November 30, 2000
30 minutes, VHS, $25.00
Poet Fanny Howe opens her reading with the uncollected poems "The Tulip" and "The Splinter." She then reads the title poem and "A Lovely Future," "Annunciation," "Twenty-eight Emblems," "Ink," "Let it Snow," "Winter Distances," "Never," "Once," "The Source," and "Twice No One" from her chapbook Angria, named for and inspired by the magical country the Brontë sisters invented. Steve Dickison introduces Howe and Jennifer Moxley, at The Unitarian Center.

Susan Howe: October 11, 1984
30 minutes, VHS, $25.00
Poet Susan Howe reads from Pythagorean Silence. Michael Palmer is the co-reader, at SFSU.

Susan Howe: April 14, 1985
93 minutes, VHS, $25.00
As part of a Women Working in Literature conference, Joanne Feit Diehl, Susan Howe, and Suzanne Juhasz discuss the influence of Emily Dickinson in "A Dickinson Colloquium," at SFSU.

Andrew Hoyem: October 24, 1974
31 minutes, VHS, $25.00
Printer and poet Andrew Hoyem, whose books include The Music Room, reads the poems, "The Red Cliff," "Transformation," "The Music Room," "The First Poet Travels to the Moon," "On the Salt of Personhood," "Prenatal Prayer," "Crossing Polk Street on a Bet," and "Politely, no thank you...." Kathleen Fraser introduces Hoyem and Richard Barnes.

Langston Hughes: December 5, 1958
65 minutes, Audiocassette, $15.00
Original Poetry Center Archives recording.

Ted Hughes: July 20, 1977
64 minutes, VHS, $25.00
In his first West Coast appearance, poet Ted Hughes reads "The Thoughtfox," "I Sit in the Top of the Wood," "Kreutzer Sonata," "Gnat-Psalm," "Black Village of Grave Stones," "A Great Bird Landed Here," "Where There Was Nothing, Somebody Put a Frightened Lake," "Wind Slams Across the Tops," "The Sheep has Stopped Crying," "A Lamb Could Not Get Born," "Examination at the Wombdoor," "That Star Will Blow Your Hand Off," "A Horrible Religious Error," "Apple Tragedy," "Lovesong," "Was It Like Life, or Was It Like Death?" "The Lovepet," "Who Gave Most?" and "How Water Began to Play." Thom Gunn introduces Hughes, at San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.

Richard Hugo: May 26, 1974
35 minutes, VHS, $25.00
Poet Richard Hugo passed away in 1982. Here, in one of his few San Francisco appearances, he reads "A Snapshot of the Auxiliary," "Bear Paw," "Degrees of Gray in Philipsburg," "Plans for Altering the River," "The Freaks at Spurgin Road Field," "What Thou Lovest Well Remains American," and "The Arts of Poetry." Kathleen Fraser introduces Hugo and Josephine Miles, at The San Francisco Art Institute.

Richard Hugo: February 20, 1975
28 minutes, VHS, $25.00
Note: original tape quality is poor
Montana poet Richard Hugo's work came out of an intimate and powerful connection with the Northwest-its land, animals, and waterscapes. Here he reads "Photo," "Bear Paw," "Degrees of Gray in Philipsburg," "Missoula Softball Tournament," "The Freaks at Spurgin Road Field," "Plans for Altering the River," and "What Thou Lovest Well Remains American." Kathleen Fraser introduces Hugo and Bert Meyers, at SFSU.

Akasha Hull: May 1, 1997
20 minutes, VHS, $25.00
After reading from a prose work-in-progress about spirituality, Akasha Hull reads "Poem On My Fortieth Birthday To My Mother Who Died Young" and "I'm Going Back to My True Identity" by Lucille Clifton. She concludes by reading her own poems, "These Poems, These Poems," "House Blessing," "Watch God Crumble," and "Ghost Says." Maude Meehan is the co-reader, at SFSU.

Erica Hunt: October 6, 1983
21 minutes, VHS, $25.00
Poet Erica Hunt reads "This is Life, I Think I'll Call it Earth," "Certainty," "One Thinks of You Mingling With Other Objects," "Get Stuck in a Clogged Arterial Next to a Liquor Store," "One Lives Inside the Replica of a City Materializing," and "Wilderness Is Projected and We Dine Upon It." Jim Hartz introduces Hunt and Marc Lecard, at SFSU.

Erica Hunt: October 11, 1990
35 minutes, VHS, $25.00
In a Poetry at the Gallery event, Erica Hunt reads "Preface," "The Ideal Reader," seven sections of "Surplus," and "Correspondence Theory." Lynne Tillman is the co-reader, at San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery.

Bo Huston: November 7, 1991
38 minutes, VHS, $25.00
Fiction writer Bo Huston, whose work depicts gritty urban realities in a fresh style associated with New Narrative authors, reads "Freud's Big Trouble." Rosemary Catacalos introduces Huston and Blance McCrary Boyd, at the Eye Gallery.

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