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Welcome to the Poetry Center and American Poetry Archives
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Slideshow of 5 images. You are at image number 1 with caption : UNRELEASED VIDEO "Getting Love Right," Elise Ficarra on The Poetry Center Archives, at SFMOMA Open Space
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Slideshow of 5 images. You are at image number 2 with caption : UNRELEASED VIDEO "For Mnemonysne," Steve Dickison on The Poetry Center Archives, at SFMOMA Open Space
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Slideshow of 5 images. You are at image number 3 with caption : Poetry and The Body — Poetry Coalition featured programs for March 2018
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Slideshow of 5 images. You are at image number 4 with caption : VIDEO + AUDIO Poetry and Migration — view all March 2017 Poetry Coalition featured programs
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Slideshow of 5 images. You are at image number 5 with caption : VIDEO + AUDIO Tongo Eisen-Martin, premier Poetry Center Mazza Writer in Residence
UNRELEASED VIDEO "Getting Love Right," Elise Ficarra on The Poetry Center Archives, at SFMOMA Open Space
UNRELEASED VIDEO "For Mnemonysne," Steve Dickison on The Poetry Center Archives, at SFMOMA Open Space
Poetry and The Body — Poetry Coalition featured programs for March 2018
VIDEO + AUDIO Poetry and Migration — view all March 2017 Poetry Coalition featured programs
VIDEO + AUDIO Tongo Eisen-Martin, premier Poetry Center Mazza Writer in Residence
Recent Events
VIDEO + AUDIO James Kass and Paul S. Flores: a reading & performance celebrating 21 years by two founders of Youth Speaks
VIDEO + AUDIO The Black Aesthetic, in performance and in conversation
VIDEO + AUDIO Cosmic Diaspora (Jake Marmer, John Schott, Joshua Horowitz) and Steve Dalachinsky
NO VIDEO NoViolet Bulawayo, Gina Berriault Award for Fiction, reading
VIDEO + AUDIO Tom Raworth (1938–2017): A Celebration of His Life and Work
VIDEO + AUDIO David Henderson, reading and in conversation
VIDEO + AUDIO Solmaz Sharif, a reading and reception
VIDEO + AUDIO Jackie Wang, Carceral Capitalism, with Lily Hoang, A Bestiary, a reading and book party
VIDEO + AUDIO Lily Hoang and Jackie Wang, reading and in conversation
VIDEO + AUDIO Julian Talamantez Brolaski and Garrett Caples, reading and in conversation
VIDEO + AUDIO Dale Smith, on Robert Duncan and Charles Olson, and reading his own poetry
Lewis Jordan Trio, for Langston Hughes on his Birthday
VIDEO + AUDIO David Hobbs, The George Oppen Memorial Lecture, "Oppen and His Early Others"
CANCELLED Steven Seidenberg and Jared Stanley
VIDEO + AUDIO Jerome Rothenberg, Reading and in Conversation
AUDIO: David Meltzer Memorial Tribute
VIDEO + AUDIO alex cruse and Kevin CK Lo, in Performance and in Conversation
VIDEO + AUDIO Trace Peterson and Max Wolf Valerio, Reading and in Conversation
VIDEO + AUDIO William Rowe and Helen Dimos, Reading and in Conversation
VIDEO + AUDIO Dennis Cooper and Eileen Myles, reading at McRoskey Mattress Co.
CANCELLED May-lee Chai and Junse Kim
VIDEO + AUDIO Tongo Eisen-Martin with Marshall Trammell, in Performance
VIDEO + AUDIO Mazza Writer in Residence Tongo Eisen-Martin, in Performance and Conversation
VIDEO + AUDIO Camille T. Dungy and Javier Zamora, Reading and in Conversation
The New Talkies: Live Film Narrations at ATA
VIDEO + AUDIO Douglas Kearney and Tatiana Luboviski-Acosta, in Performance and Conversation
VIDEO + AUDIO Martha Ronk and Paul Vangelisti, Reading and in Conversation
VIDEO + AUDIO Nellie Wong and Genny Lim, Reading and in Conversation
VIDEO + AUDIO David Brazil, Sara Larsen, Rebecca Eland, Andrew Schelling, Reading and in Conversation
VIDEO + AUDIO Orlando White and Patrick James Dunagan, Poetry Center Book Award Reading
VIDEO + AUDIO Janice Lowe plays Leaving Cle, Poetry and Groove, with Yohann Potico and Kevin Carnes
VIDEO + AUDIO Ariel Goldberg and Simone White, Giant Night: The Poetry Project at 50, a Reading and Conversation
VIDEO + AUDIO Poetry Center Chapbook Exchange, a Reading and Conversation
VIDEO + AUDIO Margaret Randall, Only the Road ⁄ Solo el Camino: Eight Decades of Cuban Poetry
VIDEO + AUDIO David Boyce, Hafez Modirzadeh, Marshall R. Trammell & Friends
VIDEO + AUDIO Asya Abdrahman, Faith Adiele, Tonya M. Foster: Navigating Space for Women
VIDEO + AUDIO Layli Long Soldier and Truong Tran, Reading and in Conversation
VIDEO + AUDIO Hank Lazer and Andrew Maxwell, Reading and in Conversation
VIDEO + AUDIO Oki Sogumi and Wendy Trevino, Reading and in Conversation
VIDEO + AUDIO Benjamin Hollander, a Memorial Tribute
VIDEO + AUDIO Charles Alexander and Susan Thackrey, Reading and in Conversation
VIDEO + AUDIO Frances Richard, The George Oppen Memorial Lecture: "The Mind's Own Place and Feminine Technologies: George Oppen and Possibilities of the Political"
VIDEO + AUDIO Working With Others: Convivial Research (Revisited)
VIDEO + AUDIO Barbara Jane Reyes and Oscar Bermeo + Video Debut Screening
VIDEO + AUDIO Alice Notley reads The Descent of Alette, 2 nights at The Lab
VIDEO + AUDIO José Kozer, a bilingual reading and conversation
VIDEO + AUDIO Carolina De Robertis and Micah Perks: Prose at The Poetry Center
VIDEO + AUDIO Geneva Chao and Mg Roberts, Reading and in Conversation
VIDEO + AUDIO Rod Smith and Lee Ann Brown, Reading and in Conversation
VIDEO + AUDIO Florencia Castellano, Luis Felipe Fabre, Pablo Katchadjian, Stalina Emmanuelle Villarreal
VIDEO + AUDIO Julia Bloch and erica lewis, Reading and in Conversation
VIDEO + AUDIO Jennifer Foerster, Poetry Reading at "When I Remember I See Red"
VIDEO + AUDIO Bill Berkson Memorial Tribute
VIDEO + AUDIO Samantha Giles and Angela Hume, Reading and in Conversation
VIDEO + AUDIO Tongo Eisen-Martin and Jasmine Gibson, Reading and in Conversation
VIDEO + AUDIO Hollie Hardy and Mukta Sambrani, Poetry Center Book Award Reading
VIDEO + AUDIO For Franco Beltrametti: with Joanne Kyger, Duncan McNaughton, Donald Guravich, Maggie Brown, Jim Nisbet, Judy Goldhaft, Stefan Hyner
VIDEO + AUDIO Stefan Hyner: “This Other World Not Civilized,” a reading and talk with Lao Tzu, T’ao Yüan Ming, Li T’ai Po
VIDEO Kuwentuhan (Talkstory) Collective Performance at McRoskey Mattress Co.
VIDEO + AUDIO Kuwentuhan (Talkstory): a project of The Poetry Center and Barbara Jane Reyes
VIDEO + AUDIO Sarah Schulman and Terry Castle: a reading from The Cosmopolitans and a conversation
VIDEO + AUDIO Elaine Kahn and Trisha Low, Reading and in Conversation
AUDIO Ed Pavlić and David Lau, Reading and in Conversation
VIDEO + AUDIO Fred Moten and Nathaniel Mackey, with Hafez Modirzadeh
VIDEO + AUDIO Clarence Major and Patricia Spears Jones, Reading and in Conversation
VIDEO + AUDIO Annie Finch, A Solo Reading and Conversation
VIDEO + AUDIO Tom Clark and Vincent Katz, Reading New Work
VIDEO + AUDIO Vincent Katz and Jane Gregory, Reading and in Conversation
VIDEO + AUDIO Roberto Tejada, The George Oppen Memorial Lecture: "Assault on the Quiet Continent: Oppen in Mexico"
VIDEO + AUDIO Gregory Pardlo reading, 2015 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry
VIDEO + AUDIO Stephen Rodefer, a Memorial Tribute
VIDEO + AUDIO Leticia Hernández-Linares and Lee Herrick, Reading and in Conversation
VIDEO + AUDIO Adjunct Action | Poets in Action: Jessica Beard, Hugh Behm-Steinberg, David Buuck, Stephanie Young
VIDEO + AUDIO Poet | Artist | Activist: Let’s Make A Plan: Christopher Higgenbotham, Christian Nagler, Cassie Thornton
VIDEO + AUDIO John Keene, Counternarratives: Reading and in Conversation with Tân Khánh Cao
VIDEO + AUDIO Prose at The Poetry Center: John Keene, Counternarratives
VIDEO + AUDIO Tonya M. Foster and David Buuck, Reading and in Conversation
VIDEO + AUDIO Lucia Berlin's A Manual for Cleaning Women: Selected Stories, a reading with Stephen Emerson, Gloria Frym, August Kleinzahler, and Mimi Pond
VIDEO + AUDIO Michael Gizzi's Collected Poems, a Celebration
VIDEO + AUDIO Katy Bohinc and Paul Ebenkamp, Reading and in Conversation
VIDEO + AUDIO David Meltzer: Two-Way Mirror
VIDEO + AUDIO Robert Dewhurst and Michael Seth Stewart on the Life and Work of John Wieners
