Poetry Center Archive Goes Live!

Newly digitized and cataloged historic video recordings from The Poetry Center, San Francisco State University. Full programs are at https://diva.sfsu.edu/collections/poetrycenter We'll post rare video from the 1970s and 1980s, drawn from The Poetry Center's historic collection. Check here as more new recordings get added.

Thanks to Marshall Trammell, Music Research Strategies, for opening credits music and source video. https://vimeo.com/user3870497

Ed Sanders, USA: Poetry, NET Outtakes Series: March 18, 1966 —The Poetry Center

Robert Creeley, USA: Poetry, NET Outtakes Series: 1966 —The Poetry Center

Alice Walker, 1980, talking on Zora Neale Hurston with her audience at SF State —The Poetry Center

Alice Walker reading Zora Neale Hurston, 1980, from Mules and Men (1935) —The Poetry Center

Tin Tan magazine reading, 1978, Alma Luz Villanueva reading her poetry —The Poetry Center

Tin Tan magazine reading, 1978, Wilfredo Castaño reading his poetry —The Poetry Center

Tin Tan reading, 1978, Alejandro Murgía reads Ernesto Cardenal and his own work —The Poetry Center

Tillie Olsen, 1977, her novel Yonnondio: From the Thirties [excerpt]—The Poetry Center

Grace Paley, 1977, from Enormous Changes at the Last Minute, her story "Wants" —The Poetry Center

Michael McClure, 1976, from September Blackberries (New Directions, 1974) —The Poetry Center

Lawrence Ferlinghetti, 1976, two poems: "Deep Chess" and "Olbers's Paradox" —The Poetry Center

Victor Hernández Cruz, 1976, two poems from Mainland (1973) —The Poetry Center

Dick Gallup, 1976, from Above the Treeline (Big Sky Books) in San Francisco —The Poetry Center

Louis Ginsberg, 1974, reading his poems on tour with Allen Ginsberg, San Francisco—The Poetry Center

Allen Ginsberg, 1974, "'What would you do if you lost it?' said..Chögyam Trungpa" —The Poetry Center

Ntozake Shange, 1976, "for all my dead and loved ones" at San Francisco State —The Poetry Center

Jack Micheline, 1976, "It is Thursday morning..." and "Ballad of Benny Rhodes" —The Poetry Center

Janine Pommy Vega, 1976, "The Traveller" and "The Expected One" —The Poetry Center

Kenneth Rexroth, 1974, four poems, at Intersection for the Arts, San Francisco —The Poetry Center

William S. Burroughs, 1974, "Sexual Conditioning," copresented by Gay Sunshine and The Poetry Center

John Giorno, 1974, "Suicide Sutra" at First Unitarian Church, San Francisco —The Poetry Center

Diane di Prima, 1976, "...but there is another road / through a different door.." —The Poetry Center

Lenore Kandel, 1976, "Remembrance of Saint John the Dwarf"/"A Prayer on the Wind" —The Poetry Center

Kay Boyle, 1975, on "a pre-study of a Black Studies program" in white academia —The Poetry Center

Al Young, 1974, reading Ishmael Reed from Hambone #1 and his own work —The Poetry Center

Josephine Miles, 1973, reading four poems at San Francisco State University —The Poetry Center

Carolyn Kizer, October 1973, dream poem for Nicanor Parra at the Chilean coup —The Poetry Center

José Montoya, 1977, five poems at César Chavez Student Center, SF State —The Poetry Center

Alice Notley, 1976, reading at San Francisco State University —The Poetry Center

Bill Bathurst, 1976, reading at San Francisco State University —The Poetry Center