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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 : Brandon Shimoda and Aisuke Kondo featured in Poetry Coalition program on 'Poetry and Democracy'
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Slideshow of 5 images. You are at image number 2 with caption : Black Study Series debuts with poets Frank B. Wilderson III and D.S. Marriott
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Slideshow of 5 images. You are at image number 3 with caption : In memory of Kathleen Fraser, March 22, 1935–February 5, 2019
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Slideshow of 5 images. You are at image number 4 with caption : Mazza Writers in Residence: Tatiana Luboviski-Acosta and Juliana Delgado Lopera
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Slideshow of 5 images. You are at image number 5 with caption : In Common Writers Series features Janice Lee, Jasmine Gibson, Maryam Ivette Parhizkar, Feliz Lucia Molina, Darius James + Val Jeanty, and Tim Z Hernandez
Brandon Shimoda and Aisuke Kondo featured in Poetry Coalition program on 'Poetry and Democracy'
Black Study Series debuts with poets Frank B. Wilderson III and D.S. Marriott
In memory of Kathleen Fraser, March 22, 1935–February 5, 2019
Mazza Writers in Residence: Tatiana Luboviski-Acosta and Juliana Delgado Lopera
In Common Writers Series features Janice Lee, Jasmine Gibson, Maryam Ivette Parhizkar, Feliz Lucia Molina, Darius James + Val Jeanty, and Tim Z Hernandez
Recent Events
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
AUDIO In Common Writers Series: Darius James, solo reading from Negrophobia
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 their work
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 and in conversation
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
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, reading and in conversation
VIDEO + AUDIO Robert Dewhurst and Michael Seth Stewart on the Life and Work of John Wieners
