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Welcome to the Poetry Center and American Poetry Archives
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Slideshow of 4 images. You are at image number 1 with caption : Now and always!! IN DEFENSE OF BLACK LIVES Pat Parker and Audre Lorde: February 7, 1986 — Audre Lorde: September 26, 1974 + 12 more historic videos of Black women poets
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Slideshow of 4 images. You are at image number 2 with caption : Now and always!! IN DEFENSE OF BLACK LIVES Ruth Wilson Gilmore — "capitalism requires inequality, and racism enshrines it..." — essential video
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Slideshow of 4 images. You are at image number 3 with caption : Now and always!! IN DEFENSE OF BLACK LIVES Bob Kaufman's Collected Poems: A celebration AFTER his 95th birthday—poetry and jazz—happening Fall 2020
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Slideshow of 4 images. You are at image number 4 with caption : Now and always!! IN DEFENSE OF BLACK LIVES a shelf of books — some opening lines — some resources for engaging “the capaciousness of the work of abolition” (Saidiya Hartman*) — some links outside
Now and always!! IN DEFENSE OF BLACK LIVES Pat Parker and Audre Lorde: February 7, 1986 — Audre Lorde: September 26, 1974 + 12 more historic videos of Black women poets
Now and always!! IN DEFENSE OF BLACK LIVES Ruth Wilson Gilmore — "capitalism requires inequality, and racism enshrines it..." — essential video
Now and always!! IN DEFENSE OF BLACK LIVES Bob Kaufman's Collected Poems: A celebration AFTER his 95th birthday—poetry and jazz—happening Fall 2020
Now and always!! IN DEFENSE OF BLACK LIVES a shelf of books — some opening lines — some resources for engaging “the capaciousness of the work of abolition” (Saidiya Hartman*) — some links outside
Recent Events
CANCELED In Common Writers Series: John Yau and Claudia La Rocco, reading and in conversation
CANCELED In Common Writers Series: John Yau and Andrew Joron, reading and in conversation
CANCELED Zaina Alsous and Wendy Trevino, Mazza Writer in Residence, reading from their work
CANCELED Mazza Writer in Residence Wendy Trevino, with Zaina Alsous, reading and in conversation
CANCELED Collected Poems of Bob Kaufman: A celebration on his 95th birthday—poetry and jazz, at McRoskey Mattress Co.
CANCELED Poetry Center Book Award Reading: Ashley Toliver and Jason Bayani, reading and in conversation
CANCELED Legacy of Forugh Farrokhzad: with Sholeh Wolpé, Jasmin Darznik, and Shabnam Piryaei—poetry, fiction, film, and conversation
CANCELED “I am deliberate / and afraid / of nothing”—Poetry and Protest: A day in honor of Audre Lorde and Pat Parker (Part Two): with Arisa White, Leila Weefur, and Angela Hume
CANCELED “I am deliberate / and afraid / of nothing”—Poetry and Protest: A day in honor of Audre Lorde and Pat Parker (Part One): with Judy Grahn, Jewelle Gomez, and Avotcja
CANCELED In Common Writers Series: Dodie Bellamy and Prageeta Sharma, reading from their works
CANCELED In Common Writers Series: Prageeta Sharma and Dodie Bellamy, reading and in conversation
VIDEO + AUDIO Celebration of DVAN, the Diasporic Vietnamese Artists Network: Viet Thanh Nguyen, Thi Bui, Isabelle Thuy Pelaud, She Who Has No Master(s), and Danny Thanh Nguyen
VIDEO + AUDIO Suzanne Stein and Anne Lesley Selcer, reading and in conversation
VIDEO + AUDIO In Common Writers Series: Denise Leto and Jennifer Bartlett, at The Green Arcade
VIDEO + AUDIO In Common Writers Series: Jennifer Bartlett and Denise Leto, reading and in conversation
VIDEO + AUDIO Josiah Luis Alderete and James Cagney, reading and in conversation
VIDEO + AUDIO Kelsey St. Press 45th Anniversary Celebration: Mei-mei Berssenbrugge, Ching-In Chen, Andrea Abi-Karam, at McRoskey Mattress Co.
VIDEO + AUDIO The George Oppen Memorial Lecture: Tyrone Williams, at Unitarian Center
VIDEO + AUDIO In Common Writers Series: Raquel Salas Rivera and Vanessa Angélica Villarreal, reading at Moe's Books
VIDEO + AUDIO In Common Writers Series: Vanessa Angélica Villarreal and Raquel Salas Rivera, reading and in conversation
VIDEO + AUDIO The Poetry Center Book Award: Bao Phi with Sarah Menefee, reading and in conversation
VIDEO + AUDIO Tripwire Cross-Cultural Poetics Series: Cardboard House Press/Cartonera Collective: Giancarlo Huapaya, Omar Pimienta, José Antonio Villarán and Friends, at The Green Arcade
NO VIDEO Tripwire Cross-Cultural Poetics Series: Cartonera Collective in San Francisco, a bookmaking workshop
VIDEO + AUDIO Tripwire Cross-Cultural Poetics Series: Cardboard House Press: Giancarlo Huapaya, Omar Pimienta, José Antonio Villarán, reading and in conversation
VIDEO + AUDIO Mazza Writer in Residence Peter Nachtrieb, a playwriting workshop and conversation
VIDEO + AUDIO Mazza Writer in Residence Peter Nachtrieb + Guests, reading of a new play-in-progress at Z Space
VIDEO + AUDIO In Common Writers Series: Amy Berkowitz and Caren Beilin, at E.M. Wolfman Books
VIDEO + AUDIO In Common Writers Series: Caren Beilin and Amy Berkowitz, reading and in conversation
VIDEO + AUDIO In Common Writers Series: Fay Victor and Myra Melford, in performance at Center for New Music
VIDEO + AUDIO In Common Writers Series: Fay Victor and Myra Melford, workshop performance and conversation
VIDEO + AUDIO Trisha Low and Syd Staiti, reading and in conversation
VIDEO + AUDIO Neeli Cherkovski and Jim Dunn, reading and in conversation
VIDEO + AUDIO In Common Writers Series: Tim Z. Hernandez, Marguerite Muñoz, and René Juarez-Vazquez, reading at Voz Sin Tinta
VIDEO + AUDIO In Common Writers Series: Tim Z. Hernandez, reading and in conversation with Marguerite Muñoz and René Juarez-Vazquez
VIDEO + AUDIO Mazza Writer in Residence Juliana Delgado Lopera with Joseph Cassara, reading and in conversation
VIDEO + AUDIO Mazza Writer in Residence Juliana Delgado Lopera with Monique Jenkinson, aka Fauxnique, an afternoon of literary drag, at The Bindery
AUDIO In Common Writers Series: Darius James, solo reading from Negrophobia at City Lights Books
VIDEO + AUDIO West Coast Premier: Darius James and Val Jeanty, in performance at The Lab
VIDEO + AUDIO In Common Writers Series: Darius James and Val Jeanty, workshop performance and conversation
VIDEO + AUDIO In Common Writers Series: Feliz Lucia Molina and Alli Warren, reading at The Green Arcade
VIDEO + AUDIO In Common Writers Series: Feliz Lucia Molina, reading and in conversation with Alli Warren
VIDEO + AUDIO Prose at The Poetry Center: R.O. Kwon and Nona Caspers, reading and in conversation
VIDEO + AUDIO In Common Writers Series: Kenyatta A.C. Hinkle and Maryam Ivette Parhizkar, reading at University Press Books
VIDEO + AUDIO In Common Writers Series: Maryam Ivette Parhizkar, reading and in conversation with Kenyatta A.C. Hinkle
VIDEO + AUDIO Brandon Shimoda with Aisuke Kondo, reading, art presentation, and conversation
VIDEO + AUDIO Morgan Parker and Charif Shanahan, reading and in conversation
VIDEO + AUDIO 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 at The Green Arcade
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 at Moe's Books
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 at Alley Cat Books
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, at McRoskey Mattress Co.
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 at The Green Arcade
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 Tripwire Cross-Cultural Poetics Series: 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 at E. M. Wolfman Bookstore
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, solo 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, at The Maude Fife Room, UC Berkeley
VIDEO + AUDIO David Henderson, solo reading and in conversation
VIDEO + AUDIO Solmaz Sharif, solo reading and reception
VIDEO + AUDIO Jackie Wang, Carceral Capitalism, with Lily Hoang, A Bestiary, a reading and book party at The Green Arcade
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," at Unitarian Center
VIDEO + AUDIO Jerome Rothenberg, solo 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, duo performance at The Green Arcade
VIDEO + AUDIO Mazza Writer in Residence Tongo Eisen-Martin, solo performance and conversation
VIDEO + AUDIO Camille T. Dungy and Javier Zamora, reading and in conversation
The New Talkies: Live Film Narrations at Artists' Television Access
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 CLIPS David Brazil, Sara Larsen, Andrew Schelling
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 group 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 and Friends at Bird & Beckett
VIDEO + AUDIO Asya Abdrahman, Faith Adiele, Tonya M. Foster: Navigating Space for Women, at Museum of the African American Diaspora
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, at Unitarian Center
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," at Unitarian Center
VIDEO + AUDIO Working With Others: Convivial Research (Revisited), Manolo Callahan, Stefano Harney, and Tonika Sealey Thompson, at the Howard Zinn Book Fair
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, the Señal chapbook series, at Artists' Television Access
VIDEO + AUDIO Julia Bloch and erica lewis, reading and in conversation
VIDEO + AUDIO Jennifer Foerster, solo reading at the exhibition "When I Remember I See Red," at Fine Arts Gallery
VIDEO + AUDIO Bill Berkson Memorial Tribute, at McRoskey Mattress Co.
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, at The Green Arcade
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, at McRoskey Mattress Co.
VIDEO + AUDIO Clarence Major and Patricia Spears Jones, reading and in conversation
VIDEO + AUDIO Annie Finch, solo reading and conversation
VIDEO + AUDIO Tom Clark and Vincent Katz, reading new work at The Green Arcade
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," at Unitarian Center
VIDEO + AUDIO Gregory Pardlo, solo reading, 2015 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry
VIDEO + AUDIO Stephen Rodefer, a Memorial Tribute, at Berkeley Arts Festival
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, at Howard Zinn Book Fair
VIDEO + AUDIO Poet | Artist | Activist: Let’s Make A Plan: Christopher Higgenbotham, Christian Nagler, Cassie Thornton, at the Labor Archives and Research Center
VIDEO + AUDIO John Keene, Counternarratives: reading and in conversation with Tân Khánh Cao, at Green Apple Books on the Park
VIDEO + AUDIO John Keene, Counternarratives: Prose at The Poetry Center
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, at the Maude Fife Room, UC Berkeley
VIDEO + AUDIO Michael Gizzi's Collected Poems, a Celebration, at The Green Arcade
VIDEO + AUDIO Katy Bohinc and Paul Ebenkamp, reading and in conversation
VIDEO + AUDIO David Meltzer: Two-Way Mirror, solo reading and in conversation
VIDEO + AUDIO Robert Dewhurst and Michael Seth Stewart on the Life and Work of John Wieners
VIDEO + AUDIO Ernesto Cardenal, reading at Brava Theater
VIDEO + AUDIO Prageeta Sharma and Thomas Devaney, reading and in conversation
VIDEO + AUDIO Claudia Keelan and Rusty Morrison, reading and in conversation
VIDEO + AUDIO Maged Zaher and Rodney Koeneke, reading at Ruth's Table
VIDEO + AUDIO The Tahrir of Poems: Maged Zaher reads Egyptian Poets
VIDEO + AUDIO Arisa White and Raina J. Léon, reading and in conversation
VIDEO + AUDIO Peter Culley and Stacy Szymaszek, reading at Ruth's Table
VIDEO + AUDIO Stacy Szymaszek and Peter Culley, reading and in conversation
VIDEO + AUDIO Tribute to Kathleen Fraser, at Writers' Studio, California College of the Arts
VIDEO + AUDIO Pierre Joris and Nicole Peyrafitte, reading and in conversation
VIDEO + AUDIO Pierre Joris on Paul Celan, at City Lights Books
VIDEO + AUDIO Joanne Kyger and Robert Adamson, at Unitarian Center
VIDEO + AUDIO Robert Adamson, reading and in conversation
VIDEO + AUDIO Duncan McNaughton and Bill Berkson, reading and in conversation
AUDIO Bill Berkson and Duncan McNaughton, reading at The Lab
VIDEO + AUDIO Poetry Center Book Award Reading, Alli Warren and Laura Moriarty, reading and in conversation
VIDEO + AUDIO Okey Ndibe, reading and in conversation
VIDEO + AUDIO Frank O'Hara's Lunch Poems 50th Anniversary Reading, at McRoskey Mattress Co.
