Welcome to the Poetry Center and American Poetry Archives

Upcoming Events

Camille + Javier

Camille T. Dungy and Javier Zamora, Reading and in Conversation

Thursday, September 28 - 7:00 pm
The Poetry Center, HUM 512, San Francisco State University
Mazza Writer in Residence Tongo Eisen-Martin

Mazza Writer in Residence Tongo Eisen-Martin, in Performance and Conversation

Thursday, October 5 - 7:00 pm
The Poetry Center, HUM 512, San Francisco State University
Tongo Eisen-Martin + Marshall Trammell

Words and Music, Tongo Eisen-Martin with Marshall Trammell, in Performance

Saturday, October 7 - 7:00 pm
The Green Arcade, 1680 Market Street (at Gough), San Francisco
May-Lee + Junse

Prose at The Poetry Center, May-lee Chai and Junse Kim, Reading and in Conversation

Thursday, October 12 - 7:00 pm
The Poetry Center, HUM 512, San Francisco State University
Dennis + Eileen

Dennis Cooper and Eileen Myles, Rare San Francisco Appearance

Sunday, October 15 - 7:00 pm
McRoskey Mattress Co., 1687 Market Street (at Gough), San Francisco
Helen + Will

Helen Dimos and William Rowe, Reading and in Conversation

Thursday, October 26 - 7:00 pm
The Poetry Center, HUM 512, San Francisco State University

Recent Events

The New Talkies: Live Film Narrations at ATA

Douglas Kearney and Tatiana Luboviski-Acosta, in Performance and Conversation

Martha Ronk and Paul Vangelisti, Reading and in Conversation

Genny Lim and Nellie Wong, 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, and Marshall R. Trammell: Arcana Boil at Bird & Beckett

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

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