Friday APRIL 19 Safaa Fathy, poet + filmmaker: TRIPWIRE journal Series 7pm at ATA, 992 Valencia Street, SF • Egypt-born francophone poet (Al Haschiche Pamenar Press ; Where Not to Be Born Litmus Press ) + filmmaker, her only West Coast appearance, reading + film screening.

Sunday APRIL 14 2pm at ATA #MazzaWriterinResidence poet Priscilla Wathington with filmmakers Colette Ghunim and Sara Maamouri previewing their work-in-progress film Traces of Home, exploring the impact of exile (from Palestine and Mexico). details poetry.sfsu.edu

Thursday APRIL 8, #MazzaWriterinResidence Priscilla Wathington with Sam Sax, reading and in conversation. 2pm at The Poetry Center Humanities 512 SF State details poetry.sfsu.edu/event/mazza-wr…

Thurs MAR 21, 1:00 pm Pacific Time.
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Chris Martin + Imane Boukila: On Poetry, Autism and Our Neurodivergent Future
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Please join us in person or online for this exciting program! Co-presented w Paul K. Longmore Institute on Disability. Longmore Institute on Disability SF State Milkweed Editions

Wednesday MAR 6 Gillian Conoley + Rodrigo Toscano 7pm. Join us in the Mission at @ Medicine for Nightmares for this WEDNESDAY night set of poetry! poetry.sfsu.edu

Thurs FEB 29 Major Jackson , reading + in conversation w Tonya M. Foster, MFA, PhD, 7pm at City Lights Books The latest in Foster's series co-organized with The Poetry Center, 'Undisciplining the Fields,' onsite at City Lights + on zoom poetry.sfsu.edu

Lawrence Ferlinghetti — from USA: Poetry NET Outtakes: February 13, 1965 —The Poetry Center @sfsu youtu.be/WrcxdVrdAzg?si… #poetrycenterarchivegoeslive #lawrenceferlinghetti

Robert Duncan — from USA: Poetry, NET Outtakes Series, November 2, 1965 @thepoetrycenter @sfsu youtu.be/GCDBfp4jkJo?si… #poetrycenterarchivegoeslive #robertduncan

This essay (The Nation, 2019) is in The Literature of Japanese American Incarceration, eds. Frank Abe and Floyd Cheung, coming May Penguin Classics: t.ly/AXb21 // an expanded version is in my book on the afterlife of JA incarceration, coming Nov City Lights Books.

Today, on the 82nd anniversary of Executive Order 9066, I am reasserting my belief that the only real/responsible way of 'surviving' this history is by speaking out/fighting against imperialism, colonization, white supremacy, and for the liberation of oppressed people everywhere.

Listen to these 1974 readings by Audre Lorde and Etheridge Knight at The Poetry Center, San Francisco State University. ❤️❤️diva.sfsu.edu/collections/po…

Robert Gluck, 1975. the blueprint. and the tapestry. The Poetry Center youtu.be/BGsryJ1FqCE

Thursday! Feb 22 — two events:
Hataałii and Colectivo CalleSon, live musical performance 7pm at #medicinefornightmares
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Kim Shuck and Hataałiinez Wheeler, reading and in conversation 1pm @thepoetrycenter+

Thursday! Feb 22 — a doubleheader w
Kim Shuck and Hataałiinez Wheeler, reading and in conversation 1pm @thepoetrycenter
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Hataałii and Colectivo CalleSon, live musical performance 7pm #medicinefornightmares

Thurs FEB 15 On David Melnick: Benjamin Friedlander, J. Gordon Faylor, Jo Aurelio Giardini 7pm at ET AL., ETC. 'An Evening of Nice' celebrating Melnick's Nice: Collected Poems Nightboat Books Special guests, rare video, co-presented w Small Press Traffic poetry.sfsu.edu

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