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Upcoming Events

Juliana Delgado Lopera and Fauxnique

Mazza Writer in Residence Juliana Delgado Lopera with Monique Jenkinson, aka Fauxnique, an afternoon of literary drag

Saturday, April 27 - 3:00 pm to 4:30 pm
The Bindery, 1727 Haight Street (at Cole), San Francisco
Juliana Delgado Lopera and Joseph Cassara

Mazza Writer in Residence Juliana Delgado Lopera with Joseph Cassara, reading and in conversation

Thursday, May 2 - 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm
The Poetry Center, HUM 512, San Francisco State University
Tim Z. Hernandez

In Common Writers Series: Tim Z. Hernandez, reading and in conversation with Marguerite Muñoz and René Juarez-Vazquez

Thursday, May 9 - 1:00 pm to 3:00 pm
The Poetry Center, HUM 512, San Francisco State University
Tim Z. Hernandez, Marguerite Muñoz, and René Juarez-Vazquez

In Common Writers Series: Tim Z. Hernandez, Marguerite Muñoz, and René Juarez-Vazquez, reading at Voz Sin Tinta

Thursday, May 9 - 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm
Alley Cat Books, 3036 24th Street (at Treat), San Francisco

Recent Events

In Common Writers Series: Darius James, solo reading from Negrophobia

West Coast Premier: Darius James and Val Jeanty, in performance at The Lab

In Common Writers Series: Darius James and Val Jeanty, workshop performance and conversation

In Common Writers Series: Feliz Lucia Molina and Alli Warren, reading their work

In Common Writers Series: Feliz Lucia Molina, reading and in conversation with Alli Warren

Prose at The Poetry Center: R.O. Kwon and Nona Caspers, reading and in conversation

In Common Writers Series: Maryam Ivette Parhizkar and Kenyatta A.C. Hinkle, reading from their work

In Common Writers Series: Maryam Ivette Parhizkar, reading and in conversation with Kenyatta A.C. Hinkle

Brandon Shimoda with Aisuke Kondo, reading, art presentation, and conversation

Morgan Parker and Charif Shanahan, reading and in conversation

Poetry Center Book Award Reading: Lauren Levin and Melissa Mack, reading and in conversation

VIDEO + AUDIO Black Study Series: Frank B. Wilderson III and D.S. Marriott, reading from their poetry

VIDEO + AUDIO Black Study Series: Frank B. Wilderson III, reading and in conversation

VIDEO + AUDIO In Common Writers Series: Jasmine Gibson and Juliana Spahr, reading from their work

VIDEO + AUDIO In Common Writers Series: Jasmine Gibson, reading and in conversation with Juliana Spahr

CANCELLED In Common Writers Series: Kiese Laymon and Tongo Eisen-Martin, reading their work

CANCELLED In Common Writers Series: Kiese Laymon, reading and in conversation with Tongo Eisen-Martin

VIDEO + AUDIO In Common Writers Series: Janice Lee and Brenda Iijima, reading from their works

VIDEO + AUDIO In Common Writers Series: Janice Lee, reading and in conversation with Brenda Iijima

VIDEO + AUDIO Prose at The Poetry Center: May-lee Chai and Junse Kim

VIDEO + AUDIO “Stop Sweeping Us, We Are Not Trash”: Leroy F. Moore Jr. and Lisa “Tiny” Gray-Garcia

VIDEO + AUDIO M. NourbeSe Philip, reading and in conversation: the Leslie Scalapino 21st Century Innovative Writers Series

VIDEO + AUDIO Steven Seidenberg and Jared Stanley, reading and in conversation

VIDEO + AUDIO Mazza Writer in Residence Tatiana Luboviski-Acosta, in collaboration with Kyle Parker

VIDEO + AUDIO Mazza Writer in Residence Tatiana Luboviski-Acosta with special guest Daisy Zamora, reading and in conversation

VIDEO + AUDIO “I have decided to wholeheartedly consecrate myself to my art” —Mazza Writer in Residence, Tatiana Luboviski-Acosta

VIDEO + AUDIO Antena: a language justice and language experimentation collaborative, Jen Hofer and John Pluecker

VIDEO + AUDIO Tripwire Cross-Cultural Poetics Series: John Pluecker and Jen Hofer, reading from their poetry

VIDEO + AUDIO MK Heather June Gibbons and Chavez, reading and in conversation

VIDEO + AUDIO Tommy Pico and Brontez Purnell, reading and in conversation

VIDEO + AUDIO Forrest Gander, reading and in conversation

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, in performance

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

VIDEO + AUDIO Lewis Jordan Trio, for Langston Hughes on his Birthday

VIDEO + AUDIO David Hobbs, The George Oppen Memorial Lecture, "Oppen and His Early Others"

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.

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

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), Manolo Callahan, Stefano Harney, and Tonika Sealey Thompson

VIDEO + AUDIO Barbara Jane Reyes and Oscar Bermeo + Video Debut Screening

VIDEO + AUDIO Alice Notley reads The Descent of Alette, two nights at The Lab

VIDEO + AUDIO José Kozer, a bilingual reading and conversation

VIDEO + AUDIO Prose at The Poetry Center: Carolina De Robertis and Micah Perks

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, reading at the exhibition "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 Poetry Center Book Award Reading: Hollie Hardy and Mukta Sambrani

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