Poetry Center: Marcella Durand

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

Allen Ginsberg, Part 1, from USA: Poetry, NET Outtakes Series: July 18, 1965 —The Poetry Center

Allen Ginsberg, Part 2, from USA: Poetry, NET Outtakes Series: December 14, 1965 —The Poetry Center

Anne Sexton, from USA: Poetry, NET Outtakes Series: March 10, 1966 —The Poetry Center

Richard Wilbur, from USA: Poetry, NET Outtakes Series: March 8, 1966 —The Poetry Center

Monique Wittig, 1985, reading from "The Constant Journey" [Le voyage sans fin] —The Poetry Center

Jayne Cortez, 1985, "You Know" and "There It Is," live in San Francisco —The Poetry Center

Alice Walker, 1976, "For My Sister Molly, Who in the Fifties" —The Poetry Center

Alice Walker, April 1976, reading at San Jose State University —The Poetry Center

Ed Dorn, 1976, Prolegomena to Book IV of Gunslinger, at New College of California —The Poetry Center

Ed Sanders, 1976, reads "The Struggle," at New College of California —The Poetry Center

Larry Goodell, 1976, "Jesus Eats His Eats His Jesus, or Beware the Sailor Wave" —The Poetry Center

Stephen Rodefer, 1975, "See the Perfect Stanza Beginning Tarzan" + "Artist Life 1"—The Poetry Center

Geoffrey Young, 1975, reads his poem "Solid Object" at San Francisco State —The Poetry Center

Summer Brenner, 1975, reading from her poetry at San Francisco State —The Poetry Center

David Hoag, 1975, reading from his poems at San Francisco State University —The Poetry Center

Leslie Scalapino, 1975, from The Woman Who Could Read the Minds of Dogs —The Poetry Center

Faye Kicknosway, 1974, reading her poems at San Francisco State —The Poetry Center

Ai, 1974, reads from her first book of poetry, Cruelty, at San Francisco State —The Poetry Center

James Welch, 1974, reading from his poetry at San Francisco State University —The Poetry Center

Dennis Schmitz, 1974, reading three poems at San Francisco State —The Poetry Center

Charlotte Painter, 1977, Confessions from the Málaga Madhouse, at SF State —The Poetry Center

Marilyn Hacker, 1977, "Untoward Occurrence at Embassy Poetry Reading" —The Poetry Center

Gary Snyder, 1976, Balasaraswati Music and Dance School benefit reading, Berkeley —The Poetry Center

Amiri Baraka, Oct 1984, "Wailers (for Larry Neal and Bob Marley)" live at SF State—The Poetry Center

Douglas Woolf, 1984, "Is Anybody Listening?" from his 1971 novel Ya! —The Poetry Center

John Ashbery, from USA: Poetry, NET Outtakes Series: March 6, 1966 —The Poetry Center

Kenneth Koch, from USA: Poetry, NET Outtakes Series: March 3, 1966 —The Poetry Center

Frank O'Hara, from USA: Poetry, NET Outtakes Series: March 6, 1966 —The Poetry Center

Lucia Berlin, 1984, reads “The Pony Bar, Oakland” and “My Jockey" in San Francisco—The Poetry Center