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Poetry Center: 50 years of literary history | ||||
February 19, 2004 |
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The Poetry Center and American Poetry Archives is celebrating its 50th anniversary this year, starting Saturday, Feb. 21, with readings by Adrienne Rich, Ishmael Reed, Robin Blaser, Etel Adnan and SF State alumnus Michael McClure in Knuth Hall of the Creative Arts building. Tickets, which range in price from $15 to $50, are available on the Poetry Center Web site or by calling 1-866-468-3399.
"From the beginning, the Poetry Center continued the internationalization of San Francisco as a major literary center," McClure said in the Feb. 19 edition of the San Francisco Chronicle. The center hosts 25 to 30 public poetry readings and events each year featuring a diverse range of artists from around the world. SF State Professor Ruth Witt-Diamant founded the center, with encouragement from her friend Dylan Thomas and a gift from the great English poet W.H. Auden. California Poets in the Schools, a landmark outreach program that has introduced creative writing to half a million youth, was founded at The Poetry Center in 1964. Other events to celebrate the 50th anniversary include an April 17 poetry festival at the Unitarian Center in San Francisco, and an original exhibit focused on 50 years of art and poetry interaction in the Bay Area opening in November at the California Historical Society museum in San Francisco. -- Matt
Itelson
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