Archive Events
VIDEO + AUDIO Frank O'Hara's Lunch Poems 50th Anniversary Reading, at McRoskey Mattress Co.
McRoskey Mattress Co., 1687 Market Street, San Francisco
VIDEO + AUDIO Okey Ndibe, reading and in conversation
The Poetry Center, Humanities 512, San Francisco State University
VIDEO + AUDIO Poetry Center Book Award Reading, Alli Warren and Laura Moriarty, reading and in conversation
The Poetry Center, Humanities 512, San Francisco State University
AUDIO Bill Berkson and Duncan McNaughton, reading at The Lab
The Lab, 2948 16th Street, San Francisco
VIDEO + AUDIO Duncan McNaughton and Bill Berkson, reading and in conversation
The Poetry Center, Humanities 512, San Francisco State University
VIDEO + AUDIO Robert Adamson, reading and in conversation
The Poetry Center, Humanities 512, San Francisco State University
VIDEO + AUDIO Joanne Kyger and Robert Adamson, at Unitarian Center
Unitarian Center, 1187 Franklin Street, San Francisco
VIDEO + AUDIO Pierre Joris on Paul Celan, at City Lights Books
City Lights Books, 261 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco
VIDEO + AUDIO Pierre Joris and Nicole Peyrafitte, reading and in conversation
The Poetry Center, Humanities 512, San Francisco State University
VIDEO + AUDIO Tribute to Kathleen Fraser, at Writers' Studio, California College of the Arts
Writers' Studio, CCA, 195 De Haro Street, San Francisco
VIDEO + AUDIO Stacy Szymaszek and Peter Culley, reading and in conversation
Thursday April 2, 2015
The Poetry Center, Humanities 512, San Francisco State University
VIDEO + AUDIO Peter Culley and Stacy Szymaszek, reading at Ruth's Table
Ruth's Table, 3160 21st Street, San Francisco
VIDEO + AUDIO Arisa White and Raina J. Léon, reading and in conversation
The Poetry Center, Humanities 512, San Francisco State University
VIDEO + AUDIO The Tahrir of Poems: Maged Zaher reads Egyptian Poets
Saturday, May 23, 2015 at 4:30am
The Poetry Center, Humanities 512, San Francisco State University
VIDEO + AUDIO Maged Zaher and Rodney Koeneke, reading at Ruth's Table
Ruth's Table, 3160 21st Street, San Francisco
VIDEO + AUDIO Claudia Keelan and Rusty Morrison, reading and in conversation
The Poetry Center, Humanities 512, San Francisco State University
VIDEO + AUDIO Prageeta Sharma and Thomas Devaney, reading and in conversation
The Poetry Center, Humanities 512, San Francisco State University
VIDEO + AUDIO Ernesto Cardenal, reading at Brava Theater
Saturday, May 16, 2015 at 4:00pm
Brava Theater, 2781 24th Street, San Francisco
VIDEO + AUDIO Robert Dewhurst and Michael Seth Stewart on the Life and Work of John Wieners
Thursday, September 10, 2015 at 4:30pm
Humanities Building, The Poetry Center
VIDEO + AUDIO David Meltzer: Two-Way Mirror, solo reading and in conversation
Thursday, September 24, 2015 at 4:30pm
Humanities Building, The Poetry Center
VIDEO + AUDIO Katy Bohinc and Paul Ebenkamp, reading and in conversation
Thursday, October 1, 2015 at 4:30pm
Humanities Building, The Poetry Center
VIDEO + AUDIO Michael Gizzi's Collected Poems, a Celebration, at The Green Arcade
Friday, October 2, 2015 at 7:00pm
The Green Arcade, 1680 Market Street, San Francisco
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
Wednesday, October 7, 2015 at 7:00pm
The Maude Fife Room, 315 Wheeler Hall, University of California, Berkeley, 2222 Bancroft Way, Berkeley
VIDEO + AUDIO Tonya M. Foster and David Buuck, reading and in conversation
Thursday, October 22, 2015 at 4:30pm
Humanities Building, The Poetry Center
VIDEO + AUDIO John Keene, Counternarratives: Prose at The Poetry Center
Thursday, October 29, 2015 at 4:30pm
Humanities Building, The Poetry Center
VIDEO + AUDIO John Keene, Counternarratives: reading and in conversation with Tân Khánh Cao, at Green Apple Books on the Park
Friday, October 30, 2015 at 7:30pm
Green Apple Books on the Park, 1231 Ninth Avenue, San Francisco
VIDEO + AUDIO Poet | Artist | Activist: Let’s Make A Plan: Christopher Higgenbotham, Christian Nagler, Cassie Thornton, at the Labor Archives and Research Center
Thursday, November 12, 2015 at 4:30pm
Labor Archives and Research Center, J. Paul Leonard Library, Room 460 - 4th floor, SFSU
VIDEO + AUDIO Adjunct Action | Poets in Action: Jessica Beard, Hugh Behm-Steinberg, David Buuck, Stephanie Young, at Howard Zinn Book Fair
Sunday, November 15, 2015 at 1:45pm
Howard Zinn Book Fair, City College of San Francisco, Mission Center, 1125 Valencia Street, in the Tillie Olsen Room
VIDEO + AUDIO Leticia Hernández-Linares and Lee Herrick, reading and in conversation
Thursday, November 19, 2015 at 4:30pm
Humanities Building 512, The Poetry Center
VIDEO + AUDIO Stephen Rodefer, a Memorial Tribute, at Berkeley Arts Festival
Saturday, November 21, 2015 at 6:00pm
Berkeley Arts Festival 2133 University Avenue (at Shattuck), Berkeley
VIDEO + AUDIO Gregory Pardlo, solo reading, 2015 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry
Tuesday, December 1, 2015 at 12:30pm
Humanities Symposium Room, HUM 587, SFSU
VIDEO + AUDIO Roberto Tejada, The George Oppen Memorial Lecture: "Assault on the Quiet Continent: Oppen in Mexico," at Unitarian Center
Saturday, December 12, 2015 at 7:00pm
Unitarian Center, 1187 Franklin Street (at Geary), San Francisco
VIDEO + AUDIO Vincent Katz and Jane Gregory, reading and in conversation
Thursday, February 4, 2016 at 4:30pm to at 6:00pm
The Poetry Center, Humanities 512, San Francisco State University
VIDEO + AUDIO Tom Clark and Vincent Katz, reading new work at The Green Arcade
Friday, February 5, 2016 at 7:00pm to at 9:00pm
The Green Arcade, 1680 Market Street (at Gough), San Francisco
VIDEO + AUDIO Annie Finch, solo reading and conversation
Thursday, February 18, 2016 at 4:30pm to at 6:00pm
The Poetry Center, Humanities 512, San Francisco State University
VIDEO + AUDIO Clarence Major and Patricia Spears Jones, reading and in conversation
Thursday, March 3, 2016 at 4:30pm to at 6:00pm
The Poetry Center, Humanities 512, San Francisco State University
VIDEO + AUDIO Fred Moten and Nathaniel Mackey, with Hafez Modirzadeh, at McRoskey Mattress Co.
Saturday, March 5, 2016 at 7:00pm to at 10:00pm
The 3rd Floor, McRoskey Mattress Co., 1687 Market Street (at Gough), San Francisco
AUDIO Ed Pavlić and David Lau, reading and in conversation
Thursday, March 10, 2016 at 3:30pm to at 5:00pm
The Poetry Center, Humanities 512, San Francisco State University
VIDEO + AUDIO Elaine Kahn and Trisha Low, reading and in conversation
Thursday, March 17, 2016 at 4:30pm to at 6:00pm
The Poetry Center, Humanities 512, San Francisco State University
VIDEO + AUDIO Sarah Schulman and Terry Castle: a reading from The Cosmopolitans and a conversation
The Poetry Center, HUM 512, San Francisco State University
VIDEO + AUDIO Kuwentuhan (Talkstory): a project of The Poetry Center and Barbara Jane Reyes
Various San Francisco venues
VIDEO Kuwentuhan (Talkstory) Collective Performance at McRoskey Mattress Co.
3rd Floor, McRoskey Mattress Co. 1687 Market Street (at Gough), San Francisco
VIDEO + AUDIO Stefan Hyner: “This Other World Not Civilized,” a reading and talk with Lao Tzu, T’ao Yüan Ming, Li T’ai Po
The Poetry Center, HUM 512, San Francisco State University
VIDEO + AUDIO For Franco Beltrametti: with Joanne Kyger, Duncan McNaughton, Donald Guravich, Maggie Brown, Jim Nisbet, Judy Goldhaft, Stefan Hyner, at The Green Arcade
The Green Arcade 7:00 pm, 1680 Market Street (at Gough), San Francisco
VIDEO + AUDIO Hollie Hardy and Mukta Sambrani, Poetry Center Book Award Reading
The Poetry Center, Humanities 512, San Francisco State University
VIDEO + AUDIO Tongo Eisen-Martin and Jasmine Gibson, reading and in conversation
The Poetry Center, HUM 512, San Francisco State University
VIDEO + AUDIO Samantha Giles and Angela Hume, reading and in conversation
The Poetry Center, HUM 512, San Francisco State University
VIDEO + AUDIO Bill Berkson Memorial Tribute, at McRoskey Mattress Co.
3rd Floor, McRoskey Mattress Co. 1687 Market Street (at Gough), San Francisco
VIDEO + AUDIO Jennifer Foerster, solo reading at the exhibition "When I Remember I See Red," at Fine Arts Gallery
Fine Arts Gallery, Fine Arts 238, San Francisco State University
VIDEO + AUDIO Julia Bloch and erica lewis, reading and in conversation
The Poetry Center, HUM 512, San Francisco State University
VIDEO + AUDIO Florencia Castellano, Luis Felipe Fabre, Pablo Katchadjian, Stalina Emmanuelle Villarreal, the Señal chapbook series, at Artists' Television Access
ATA (Artists' Television Access) 992 Valencia Street, San Francisco
VIDEO + AUDIO Rod Smith and Lee Ann Brown, reading and in conversation
The Poetry Center, HUM 512, San Francisco State University
VIDEO + AUDIO Geneva Chao and Mg Roberts, reading and in conversation
The Poetry Center, HUM 512
VIDEO + AUDIO Prose at The Poetry Center: Carolina De Robertis and Micah Perks
The Poetry Center, HUM 512, San Francisco State University
VIDEO + AUDIO José Kozer, a bilingual reading and conversation
The Poetry Center, HUM 512, San Francisco State University
VIDEO + AUDIO Alice Notley reads The Descent of Alette, two nights at The Lab
The Lab, 2948 16th Street (at Capp St), San Francisco
VIDEO + AUDIO Barbara Jane Reyes and Oscar Bermeo + Video Debut Screening
The Poetry Center, HUM 512, San Francisco State University
VIDEO + AUDIO Working With Others: Convivial Research (Revisited), Manolo Callahan, Stefano Harney, and Tonika Sealey Thompson, at the Howard Zinn Book Fair
Lucy Parsons Room, City College of San Francisco Mission Campus, 1125 Valencia Street (at 22nd), San Francisco
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
Unitarian Center, 1187 Franklin (at Geary), San Francisco
VIDEO + AUDIO Charles Alexander and Susan Thackrey, reading and in conversation
The Poetry Center, HUM 512, San Francisco State University
VIDEO + AUDIO Benjamin Hollander, a Memorial Tribute, at Unitarian Center
The Unitarian Center, 1187 Franklin Street (at Geary), San Francisco
VIDEO + AUDIO Oki Sogumi and Wendy Trevino, reading and in conversation
The Poetry Center, HUM 512, San Francisco State University
VIDEO + AUDIO Hank Lazer and Andrew Maxwell, reading and in conversation
The Poetry Center, HUM 512, San Francisco State University
VIDEO + AUDIO Layli Long Soldier and Truong Tran, reading and in conversation
The Poetry Center, HUM 512, San Francisco State University
VIDEO + AUDIO Asya Abdrahman, Faith Adiele, Tonya M. Foster: Navigating Space for Women, at Museum of the African American Diaspora
Museum of the African Diaspora (MoAD), 685 Mission Street (at 3rd Street), San Francisco
VIDEO + AUDIO David Boyce, Hafez Modirzadeh, Marshall R. Trammell and Friends at Bird & Beckett
Bird & Beckett Books & Records, 653 Chenery Street (Glen Park), San Francisco
VIDEO + AUDIO Margaret Randall, Only the Road ⁄ Solo el Camino: Eight Decades of Cuban Poetry
Thursday March 21, 2017
The Poetry Center, HUM 512, San Francisco State University
VIDEO + AUDIO Poetry Center Chapbook Exchange, a group reading and conversation
Thursday, April 6, 2017
The Poetry Center, HUM 512, San Francisco State University
VIDEO + AUDIO Ariel Goldberg and Simone White, Giant Night: The Poetry Project at 50, a reading and conversation
Thursday, April 13, 2017
The Poetry Center, HUM 512, San Francisco State University
VIDEO + AUDIO Janice Lowe plays Leaving Cle, Poetry and Groove, with Yohann Potico and Kevin Carnes
Thursday, April 20, 2017
The Poetry Center, HUM 512, San Francisco State University
VIDEO + AUDIO Orlando White and Patrick James Dunagan, Poetry Center Book Award Reading
Thursday, April 27, 2017
The Poetry Center, HUM 512, San Francisco State University
VIDEO CLIPS David Brazil, Sara Larsen, Andrew Schelling
Thursday, May 4, 2017
The Poetry Center, HUM 512, San Francisco State University
VIDEO + AUDIO Nellie Wong and Genny Lim, reading and in conversation
Thursday August 31, 2017
The Poetry Center, HUM 512, San Francisco State University
VIDEO + AUDIO Martha Ronk and Paul Vangelisti, reading and in conversation
Thursday September 14, 2017
The Poetry Center, HUM 512, San Francisco State University
VIDEO + AUDIO Douglas Kearney and Tatiana Luboviski-Acosta, in performance and conversation
Thursday September 21, 2017
The Poetry Center, HUM 512, San Francisco State University
The New Talkies: Live Film Narrations at Artists' Television Access
Friday September 22, 2017
Artists’ Television Access 992 Valencia Street (at 21st), San Francisco
VIDEO + AUDIO Camille T. Dungy and Javier Zamora, reading and in conversation
Thursday September 28, 2017
The Poetry Center, HUM 512, San Francisco State University
VIDEO + AUDIO Mazza Writer in Residence Tongo Eisen-Martin, solo performance and conversation
Thursday October 5, 2017
The Poetry Center, HUM 512, San Francisco State University
VIDEO + AUDIO Tongo Eisen-Martin with Marshall Trammell, duo performance at The Green Arcade
Saturday October 7, 2017
The Green Arcade, 1680 Market Street (at Gough), San Francisco
VIDEO + AUDIO Dennis Cooper and Eileen Myles, reading at McRoskey Mattress Co.
Sunday October 15, 2017
McRoskey Mattress Co., 1687 Market Street (at Gough), San Francisco
VIDEO + AUDIO William Rowe and Helen Dimos, reading and in conversation
Thursday October 26, 2017
The Poetry Center, HUM 512, San Francisco State University
VIDEO + AUDIO Trace Peterson and Max Wolf Valerio, reading and in conversation
Thursday November 2, 2017
The Poetry Center, HUM 512, San Francisco State University
VIDEO + AUDIO alex cruse and Kevin CK Lo, in performance and in conversation
Thursday November 9, 2017
The Poetry Center, HUM 512, San Francisco State University
AUDIO: David Meltzer Memorial Tribute
Sunday November 12, 2017
Humanities Auditorium, HUM 133, San Francisco State University
VIDEO + AUDIO Jerome Rothenberg, solo reading and in conversation
Tuesday November 14, 2017
The Poetry Center, HUM 512, San Francisco State University
VIDEO + AUDIO David Hobbs, The George Oppen Memorial Lecture, "Oppen and His Early Others," at Unitarian Center
Saturday December 2, 2017
The Unitarian Center, 1187 Franklin Street (at Geary), San Francisco
VIDEO + AUDIO Lewis Jordan Trio, for Langston Hughes on his Birthday
Thursday, February 1, 2018
The Poetry Center, Humanities 512, San Francisco State University
VIDEO + AUDIO Dale Smith, on Robert Duncan and Charles Olson, and reading his own poetry
Thursday, February 8, 2018
The Poetry Center, Humanities 512, San Francisco State University
VIDEO + AUDIO Julian Talamantez Brolaski and Garrett Caples, reading and in conversation
Thursday February 15, 2018
The Poetry Center, Humanities 512, San Francisco State University
VIDEO + AUDIO Lily Hoang and Jackie Wang, reading and in conversation
Thursday March 1, 2018
The Poetry Center, Humanities 512, San Francisco State University
VIDEO + AUDIO Jackie Wang, Carceral Capitalism, with Lily Hoang, A Bestiary, a reading and book party at The Green Arcade
Saturday March 3, 2018
The Green Arcade, 1680 Market Street (at Gough), San Francisco
VIDEO + AUDIO Solmaz Sharif, solo reading and reception
Wednesday March 7, 2018
Humanities Symposium Room, HUM 587, San Francisco State University
VIDEO + AUDIO David Henderson, solo reading and in conversation
Thursday March 15, 2018
The Poetry Center, Humanities 512, San Francisco State University
VIDEO + AUDIO Tom Raworth (1938–2017): A Celebration of His Life and Work, at The Maude Fife Room, UC Berkeley
Friday, April 6, 2018
Maude Fife Room, Wheeler Hall 315, UC Berkeley
NO VIDEO NoViolet Bulawayo, Gina Berriault Award for Fiction, reading
Monday, April 9, 2018
The Poetry Center, HUM 512, SF State University
VIDEO + AUDIO Cosmic Diaspora (Jake Marmer, John Schott, Joshua Horowitz) and Steve Dalachinsky, in performance
Thursday, April 19, 2018
The Poetry Center, HUM 512, SF State University
VIDEO + AUDIO The Black Aesthetic, in performance and in conversation
Thursday, April 26, 2018
The Poetry Center, HUM 512, SF State University
VIDEO + AUDIO James Kass and Paul S. Flores: a reading & performance celebrating 21 years by two founders of Youth Speaks
Thursday, May 3, 2018
The Poetry Center, HUM 512, SF State University
VIDEO + AUDIO Forrest Gander, solo reading and in conversation
The Poetry Center, HUM 512, San Francisco State University, 1600 Holloway Avenue, San Francisco
VIDEO + AUDIO Tommy Pico and Brontez Purnell, reading and in conversation
The Poetry Center, HUM 512, San Francisco State University, 1600 Holloway Avenue, San Francisco
VIDEO + AUDIO MK Heather June Gibbons and Chavez, reading and in conversation
The Poetry Center, HUM 512, San Francisco State University, 1600 Holloway Ave, San Francisco
VIDEO + AUDIO Tripwire Cross-Cultural Poetics Series: John Pluecker and Jen Hofer, reading from their poetry at E. M. Wolfman Bookstore
E.M. Wolfman General Interest Small Bookstore, 410 13th Street (near 12th Street BART), Oakland
VIDEO + AUDIO Tripwire Cross-Cultural Poetics Series: Antena: a language justice and language experimentation collaborative, Jen Hofer and John Pluecker
The Poetry Center, HUM 512, San Francisco State University, 1600 Holloway Avenue, San Francisco
VIDEO + AUDIO “I have decided to wholeheartedly consecrate myself to my art” —Mazza Writer in Residence, Tatiana Luboviski-Acosta
Various locations: The Poetry Center, San Francisco State University, and The Green Arcade
VIDEO + AUDIO Mazza Writer in Residence Tatiana Luboviski-Acosta with special guest Daisy Zamora, reading and in conversation
The Poetry Center, HUM 512, San Francisco State University, 1600 Holloway Avenue, San Francisco
VIDEO + AUDIO Mazza Writer in Residence Tatiana Luboviski-Acosta, in collaboration with Kyle Parker at The Green Arcade
The Green Arcade, 1680 Market Street (at Gough), San Francisco
VIDEO + AUDIO Steven Seidenberg and Jared Stanley, reading and in conversation
Thursday November 30, 2017
The Poetry Center, HUM 512, San Francisco State University
VIDEO + AUDIO M. NourbeSe Philip, reading and in conversation: the Leslie Scalapino 21st Century Innovative Writers Series, at McRoskey Mattress Co.
McRoskey Mattress Co., 1687 Market Street (at Gough), San Francisco
VIDEO + AUDIO “Stop Sweeping Us, We Are Not Trash”: Leroy F. Moore Jr. and Lisa “Tiny” Gray-Garcia
Thursday November 1, 2018
The Poetry Center, HUM 512, San Francisco State University, 1600 Holloway Avenue, San Francisco
VIDEO + AUDIO Prose at The Poetry Center: May-lee Chai and Junse Kim
Thursday November 8, 2018
The Poetry Center, HUM 512, San Francisco State University
VIDEO + AUDIO In Common Writers Series: Janice Lee, reading and in conversation with Brenda Iijima
Thursday November 29, 2018
The Poetry Center, HUM 512, San Francisco State University, 1600 Holloway Ave, San Francisco
VIDEO + AUDIO In Common Writers Series: Janice Lee and Brenda Iijima, reading at Alley Cat Books
Saturday December 1, 2019
Alley Cat Books, 3036 24th Street, San Francisco
CANCELLED In Common Writers Series: Kiese Laymon, reading and in conversation with Tongo Eisen-Martin
Thursday December 6, 2018
The Poetry Center, HUM 512, San Francisco State University, 1600 Holloway Avenue, San Francisco
CANCELLED In Common Writers Series: Kiese Laymon and Tongo Eisen-Martin, reading their work
Thursday December 6, 2018
Marcus Books Oakland, 3900 Martin Luther King Jr. Way (one block west of MacArthur BART), Oakland
VIDEO + AUDIO In Common Writers Series: Jasmine Gibson, reading and in conversation with Juliana Spahr
Thursday, February 7, 2019
The Poetry Center, HUM 512, San Francisco State University
VIDEO + AUDIO In Common Writers Series: Jasmine Gibson and Juliana Spahr, reading at Moe's Books
Friday, February 8, 2019
Moe’s Books, 2476 Telegraph Avenue, Berkeley
VIDEO + AUDIO Black Study Series: Frank B. Wilderson III, reading and in conversation
Thursday, February 14, 2019
The Poetry Center, HUM 512, San Francisco State University
VIDEO + AUDIO Black Study Series: Frank B. Wilderson III and D.S. Marriott, reading from their poetry at The Green Arcade
Saturday, February 16, 2019
The Green Arcade, 1680 Market Street, San Francisco
VIDEO + AUDIO Poetry Center Book Award Reading: Lauren Levin and Melissa Mack, reading and in conversation
Thursday, February 21, 2019
The Poetry Center, HUM 512, San Francisco State University
VIDEO + AUDIO Morgan Parker and Charif Shanahan, reading and in conversation
Thursday February 28, 2019
The Poetry Center, HUM 512, San Francisco State University
VIDEO + AUDIO Brandon Shimoda with Aisuke Kondo, reading, art presentation, and conversation
Thursday March 7, 2019
Ruth Asawa Garden of Remembrance, and The Poetry Center, HUM 512, San Francisco State University
VIDEO + AUDIO In Common Writers Series: Maryam Ivette Parhizkar, reading and in conversation with Kenyatta A.C. Hinkle
Thursday March 14, 2019
The Poetry Center, HUM 512, San Francisco State University
VIDEO + AUDIO In Common Writers Series: Kenyatta A.C. Hinkle and Maryam Ivette Parhizkar, reading at University Press Books
Friday March 15, 2019
University Press Books, 2430 Bancroft Avenue, Berkeley
VIDEO + AUDIO Prose at The Poetry Center: R.O. Kwon and Nona Caspers, reading and in conversation
Wednesday March 20, 2019
The Poetry Center, HUM 512, San Francisco State University
VIDEO + AUDIO In Common Writers Series: Feliz Lucia Molina, reading and in conversation with Alli Warren
Thursday April 11, 2019
The Poetry Center, Humanities 512, San Francisco State University
VIDEO + AUDIO In Common Writers Series: Feliz Lucia Molina and Alli Warren, reading at The Green Arcade
Friday April 12, 2019
The Green Arcade, 1680 Market Street (at Gough), San Francisco
VIDEO + AUDIO In Common Writers Series: Darius James and Val Jeanty, workshop performance and conversation
Thursday April 18, 2019
The Poetry Center, HUM 512, San Francisco State University
VIDEO + AUDIO West Coast Premier: Darius James and Val Jeanty, in performance at The Lab
Friday April 19, 2019
The Lab, 2948 16th Street (at Capp), San Francisco
AUDIO In Common Writers Series: Darius James, solo reading from Negrophobia at City Lights Books
Sunday April 21, 2019
City Lights Bookshop, 261 Columbus Avenue (at Broadway), San Francisco
VIDEO + AUDIO Mazza Writer in Residence Juliana Delgado Lopera with Monique Jenkinson, aka Fauxnique, an afternoon of literary drag, at The Bindery
Saturday April 27, 2019
The Bindery, 1727 Haight Street (at Cole), San Francisco
VIDEO + AUDIO Mazza Writer in Residence Juliana Delgado Lopera with Joseph Cassara, reading and in conversation
Thursday May 2, 2019
The Poetry Center, HUM 512, San Francisco State University
VIDEO + AUDIO In Common Writers Series: Tim Z. Hernandez, reading and in conversation with Marguerite Muñoz and René Juarez-Vazquez
Thursday May 9, 2019
The Poetry Center, HUM 512, San Francisco State University
VIDEO + AUDIO In Common Writers Series: Tim Z. Hernandez, Marguerite Muñoz, and René Juarez-Vazquez, reading at Voz Sin Tinta
Thursday May 9, 2019
Alley Cat Books, 3036 24th Street (at Treat), San Francisco
VIDEO + AUDIO Neeli Cherkovski and Jim Dunn, reading and in conversation
Thursday, September 5, 2019
The Poetry Center, Humanities 512, San Francisco State University
VIDEO + AUDIO Trisha Low and Syd Staiti, reading and in conversation
Thursday, September 26, 2019
The Poetry Center, Humanities 512, San Francisco State University
VIDEO + AUDIO In Common Writers Series: Fay Victor and Myra Melford, workshop performance and conversation
Thursday, October 3, 2019
The Poetry Center, Humanities 512, San Francisco State University
VIDEO + AUDIO In Common Writers Series: Fay Victor and Myra Melford, in performance at Center for New Music
Thursday, October 3, 2019
Center for New Music, 55 Taylor Street (near Market), San Francisco
VIDEO + AUDIO In Common Writers Series: Caren Beilin and Amy Berkowitz, reading and in conversation
Thursday, October 17, 2019
The Poetry Center, Humanities 512, San Francisco State University
VIDEO + AUDIO In Common Writers Series: Amy Berkowitz and Caren Beilin, at E.M. Wolfman Books
Friday, October 18, 2019
E. M. Wolfman General Interest Small Bookstore, 410 13th Street (near 12th St. BART), Oakland
VIDEO + AUDIO Mazza Writer in Residence Peter Nachtrieb + Guests, reading of a new play-in-progress at Z Space
Monday, October 21, 2019
Z Space, 450 Florida Street (at 17th), San Francisco
VIDEO + AUDIO Mazza Writer in Residence Peter Nachtrieb, a playwriting workshop and conversation
Thursday, October 24, 2019
The Poetry Center, Humanities 512, San Francisco State University
VIDEO + AUDIO Tripwire Cross-Cultural Poetics Series: Cardboard House Press: Giancarlo Huapaya, Omar Pimienta, José Antonio Villarán, reading and in conversation
Thursday, November 7, 2019
The Poetry Center, Humanities 512, San Francisco State University
NO VIDEO Tripwire Cross-Cultural Poetics Series: Cartonera Collective in San Francisco, a bookmaking workshop
Friday, November 8, 2019
Alley Cat Books & Gallery, 3036 24th Street (near Harrison), San Francisco
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
Friday, November 8, 2019
The Green Arcade, 1680 Market Street (at Gough), San Francisco
VIDEO + AUDIO The Poetry Center Book Award: Bao Phi with Sarah Menefee, reading and in conversation
Thursday, November 14, 2019
The Poetry Center, Humanities 512, San Francisco State University
VIDEO + AUDIO In Common Writers Series: Vanessa Angélica Villarreal and Raquel Salas Rivera, reading and in conversation
Thursday, November 21, 2019
The Poetry Center, Humanities 512, San Francisco State University
VIDEO + AUDIO In Common Writers Series: Raquel Salas Rivera and Vanessa Angélica Villarreal, reading at Moe's Books
Friday, November 22, 2019
Moe's Books, 2476 Telegraph Avenue (btw Haste and Dwight Way), Berkeley
VIDEO + AUDIO The George Oppen Memorial Lecture: Tyrone Williams, at Unitarian Center
Friday, December 6, 2019
Unitarian Center, 1187 Franklin (at Geary), San Francisco
VIDEO + AUDIO Kelsey St. Press 45th Anniversary Celebration: Mei-mei Berssenbrugge, Ching-In Chen, Andrea Abi-Karam, at McRoskey Mattress Co.
Friday, December 13, 2019
McRoskey Mattress Co., 1687 Market Street (at Gough), San Francisco
VIDEO + AUDIO Josiah Luis Alderete and James Cagney, reading and in conversation
Thursday, February 6, 2020
The Poetry Center, Humanities 512, San Francisco State University
In Common Writers Series: Jennifer Bartlett and Denise Leto, reading and in conversation
Thursday, February 20, 2020
The Poetry Center, Humanities 512, San Francisco State University
VIDEO + AUDIO In Common Writers Series: Denise Leto and Jennifer Bartlett, at The Green Arcade
Friday, February 21, 2020
The Green Arcade, 1680 Market Street (at Gough), San Francisco
VIDEO + AUDIO Suzanne Stein and Anne Lesley Selcer, reading and in conversation
Thursday, February 27, 2020
The Poetry Center, Humanities 512, San Francisco State University
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
Tuesday, March 3, 2020
Jack Adams Hall, César Chavez Student Center, San Francisco State University
Audre Lorde Award Reading: Elizabeth Rosas, Samantha Cosentino, and Lillian Giles, reading and in conversation
Thursday September 10, 2020
Remote access event
Poetry Center Book Award Reading: Ashley Toliver and Jason Bayani, reading and in conversation
Thursday, September 17, 2020
Remote access event
In Common Writers Series: Prageeta Sharma and Dodie Bellamy, reading and in conversation
Thursday, October 1, 2020
Remote access event
In Common Writers Series: John Yau and Andrew Joron, reading and in conversation
Thursday October 15, 2020
Remote access event
In Common Writers Series: John Yau and Claudia La Rocco, reading and in conversation
Saturday October 17, 2020
Remote access event
Bob Kaufman’s Collected Poems: A celebration AFTER his 95th birthday—poetry and jazz
Thursday October 29, 2020
Remote access event
"A Border, like race, is a cruel fiction." Mazza Writer in Residence Wendy Trevino, with Zaina Alsous, reading and in conversation
Thursday November 19, 2020
Remote access event
Legacy of Forugh Farrokhzad: with Sholeh Wolpé, Jasmin Darznik, and Shabnam Piryaei—poetry, fiction, film, and conversation
Thursday, December 3, 2020
Remote access event
The George Oppen Memorial Lecture: Erica Hunt
Saturday December 12, 2020
Remote access event