Welcome to the Poetry Center and American Poetry Archives

Upcoming Events

Jennifer and Orlando

Jennifer Foerster and Orlando White, Reading Their Poetry at "When I Remember I See Red"

Thursday, September 29 - 7:00 pm to 8:30 pm
Fine Arts Gallery, Fine Arts 238, San Francisco State University
Julia and Erica

Julia Bloch and erica lewis, Reading and in Conversation

Thursday, October 6 - 7:00 pm to 8:30 pm
The Poetry Center, HUM 512, San Francisco State University
Authors of Senal series chapbooks

Señal chapbook series poets Florencia Castellano, Luis Felipe Fabre, Pablo Katchadjian

Sunday, October 9 - 5:00 pm to 7:00 pm
ATA (Artists' Television Access) 992 Valencia Street, San Francisco

Rod Smith and Lee Ann Brown, Reading and in Conversation

Thursday, October 20 - 7:00 pm to 8:30 pm
The Poetry Center, HUM 512, San Francisco State University
Geneva and Mg

Geneva Chao and Mg Roberts, Reading and in Conversation

Thursday, October 27 - 7:00 pm to 8:30 pm
The Poetry Center, HUM 512

Recent Events

Bill Berkson Memorial Tribute

Samantha Giles and Angela Hume, Reading and in Conversation

Tongo Eisen-Martin and Jasmine Gibson, Reading and in Conversation

Hollie Hardy and Mukta Sambrani, Poetry Center Book Award Reading

For Franco Beltrametti: with Joanne Kyger, Duncan McNaughton, Donald Guravich, Maggie Brown, Jim Nisbet, Stefan Hyner

Stefan Hyner: “This Other World Not Civilized,” a reading and talk with Lao Tzu, T’ao Yüan Ming, Li T’ai Po

Kuwentuhan (Talkstory) Collective Performance at McRoskey Mattress Co.

Kuwentuhan (Talkstory): a project of The Poetry Center and Barbara Jane Reyes

Sarah Schulman and Terry Castle: a reading from The Cosmopolitans and a conversation

Elaine Kahn and Trisha Low, Reading and in Conversation

Ed Pavlić and David Lau, Reading and in Conversation

Fred Moten and Nathaniel Mackey, with Hafez Modirzadeh (music)

Clarence Major and Patricia Spears Jones, Reading and in Conversation

Annie Finch, A Solo Reading and Conversation

Tom Clark and Vincent Katz, Reading New Work

Vincent Katz and Jane Gregory, Reading and in Conversation

Roberto Tejada, The George Oppen Memorial Lecture: "Assault on the Quiet Continent: Oppen in Mexico"

Gregory Pardlo reading, 2015 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry

Stephen Rodefer, a Memorial Tribute

Leticia Hernández-Linares and Lee Herrick, Reading and in Conversation

Adjunct Action | Poets in Action: Jessica Beard, Hugh Behm-Steinberg, David Buuck, Stephanie Young

Poet | Artist | Activist: Let’s Make A Plan: Christopher Higgenbotham, Christian Nagler, Cassie Thornton

John Keene, Counternarratives: Reading and in Conversation with Tân Khánh Cao

Prose at The Poetry Center: John Keene, Counternarratives

Tonya M. Foster and David Buuck, Reading and in Conversation

Lucia Berlin's A Manual for Cleaning Women: Selected Stories, a reading with Stephen Emerson, Gloria Frym, August Kleinzahler, and Mimi Pond

Michael Gizzi's Collected Poems, a Celebration

Katy Bohinc and Paul Ebenkamp, Reading and in Conversation

David Meltzer: Two-Way Mirror

Robert Dewhurst and Michael Seth Stewart on the Life and Work of John Wieners