Welcome to The Poetry Center

Poet, performer, and scholar Phoebe Giannisi, visiting from her home in Athens, Greece, together with poet and translator Brandon Brown each read from their poetry. Giannisi is The Poetry Center's Mazza Writer in Residence for Spring 2023. This second public event, with Bay Area poet Brandon Brown joining in, is the final Poetry Center program at The Green Arcade. Susan Gevirtz will provide introductions for the poets. Please join us for what should be a memorable evening! 

For this year's Tripwire Cross-Cultural Poetics Series, our honored guests are Alana Marie Levinson-LaBrosse and Shook, prolific poet-translators whose work is devoted to persecuted languages and endangered literatures, with an emphasis on a relational, not extractive, approach to translation. They are joined by their friend and co-worker Zêdan Xelef, poet-translator and presently graduate student in the MFA writing program at SF State, as interlocutor and representative of The Poetry Center. 

The New Voice Series, in its third annual iteration, features a poet alum of SF State, in combination with a current SF State Creative Writing graduate student poet, and an undergraduate student poet (drawn from any major) at SF State, each reading their work and engaging in conversation. For this year's event, Meliza Bañales will appear as featured poet, along with Carlos Quinteros III and Hilary Cruz Mejia. Participants in the series are selected by Poetry Center student staff. Please join us!