TOASTING BARBARA GUEST ... AND OTHERS!

So, this past year I judged for the Poetry Center Book Award which was awarded posthumously to THE COLLECTED POEMS OF BARBARA GUEST. So a celebration/reading is planned at SF State on Oct. 28 -- please check it out below in the Poetry Center's Fall Schedule. You are invited!

Fall 2010 Poetry Center programs:

Note: all programs are free to Poetry Center members and SFSU students; reduced low income admission; no one turned away for lack of funds

Thursday SEPT 9 • Robert Grenier, in conversation with Stephen Ratcliffe, on editing THE COLLECTED POEMS OF LARRY EIGNER • • • • 4:30 pm @ the Poetry Center, HUM 512, SFSU, free

Saturday SEPT 11 • A Celebration of the life and work of Larry Eigner • • • •
7:30 pm @ the Unitarian Center, 1187 Franklin (at Geary), $10
with Richard Eigner, Robert Grenier, Norma Cole, Steve Dickison, Stephen Farmer, Jack & Adelle Foley, Kathleen Frumkin, Tinker Greene, Lyn Hejinian, Duncan McNaughton, Laura Moriarty, Stephen Ratcliffe, Kit Robinson

Thursday SEPT 23 • poets Nathalie Stephens & Brian Teare • •
• • 4:30 pm @ the Poetry Center, HUM 512, SFSU, free

Saturday SEPT 25 • poets Ken Edwards & Myung Mi Kim
• • • • 7:30 pm @ Meridian Gallery, 535 Powell Street (above Sutter), $10

Thursday SEPT 30 • Michael Hulse, UK poet & translator of W. G. Sebald, Elfriede Jelinek, Rilke, &c. • • •
• • • 4:30 pm @ the Poetry Center, HUM 512, SFSU, free

OCT 7 • short fiction writers Lizzy Acker & Marisa Crawford • • • • •
• • • 4:30 pm @ the Poetry Center, HUM 512, SFSU, free

Saturday OCT 9 • Afzal Ahmed Syed, renowned Pakistani Urdu poet
• • • • • • 7:30 pm @ the Unitarian Center, 1187 Franklin (at Geary), $10

Thursday OCT 14 • poets Paul Vangelisti & Dennis Phillips • • • •
4:30 pm @ the Poetry Center, HUM 512, SFSU, free

Thursday OCT 28 • Poetry Center Book Award Reading • • •
Eileen Tabios (award judge) with Archives video of Barbara Guest
in celebration of The Collected Poems of Barbara Guest
• • • 4:30 pm @ the Poetry Center, HUM 512, SFSU, free

Saturday NOV 13 • • • Community Writing Itself
• • 7:30 pm @ Meridian Gallery, 535 Powell Street (above Sutter), $10
with editor Sarah Rosenthal and contributors Stephen Ratcliffe, Elizabeth Robinson, Juliana Spahr, Truong Tran

NEW DATE!! • • Wednesday NOV 17 • novelist Karen Tei Yamashita
presenting her new work, I HOTEL
• • • • 2:00 pm @ the Poetry Center, HUM 512, SFSU, free

Thursday NOV 18 • Cedar Sigo & Simon Pettet • • • •
4:30 pm @ the Poetry Center, HUM 512, SFSU, free

Saturday DEC 11 • Rob Halpern, presenting the George Oppen Memorial Lecture • • • •
7:30 pm @ the Unitarian Center, 1187 Franklin (at Geary), $10

Thursday DEC 16 • • • Nathaniel Dorsky, four films • •
Pastourelle (2010) 17 min. / Aubade (2010) 12 min. / Compline (2009) 19 min. / Winter (2008) 22 min.
• • 7:00 pm @ SFMOMA, $7/$10, co-presented with San Francisco Cinématheque, contact SFMOMA for tickets

THE POETRY CENTER’s programs are supported by San Francisco State University and College of Humanities; Grants for the Arts/Hotel Tax Fund, City of San Francisco; the Creative Work Fund; National Endowment for the Arts; and Friends of the Poetry Center. Note: all programs are free to Poetry Center members and SFSU students; reduced low income admission; no one turned away for lack of funds

More at http://www.sfsu.edu/~poetry