Readings 2018

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Hear poets and other literary lights read their work.

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  In the Reading Room. Photo: Marisa Darabi

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  Friday, December 7, 6 PM

  Reading: Marguerite Munoz and Emji Saint Spero

  Readings by two poets whose work weaves together ritual, performance, and collaborative experimentation.

  BAMPFA

  Programmed by MK Chavez

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  Friday, November 2, 6 PM

  Reading: Norma Liliana Valdez and nick johnson

  Hear Valdez and and johnson read their work.

  BAMPFA

  Programmed by MK Chavez

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  Sunday, October 7, 1:30 PM

  Barbara Pollack: Brand New Art from China: A Generation on the Rise

  Barbara Pollack introduces and signs copies of her new book Brand New Art from China: A Generation on the Rise.

  BAMPFA
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  Friday, October 5, 6 PM

  Reading: Cyrus Armajani and Ari Banias

  Pushcart Prize nominee Armajani and PEN Center award nominee Banias read from their work.

  BAMPFA

  Programmed by MK Chavez

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  Friday, September 21, 6 PM

  Reading: East Bay Poets and Writers

  Readings from local poets Barbara Jane Reyes, Ingrid Rojas Contreras, Maw Shein Win, and Vanessa Hua.

  BAMPFA

  Programmed by Maw Shein Win

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  Sunday, July 8, 3 PM

  Reading: Cecilia Vicuña

  Poet and artist Cecilia Vicuña reads from and signs her new volume of selected poems.

  BAMPFA
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  Thursday, June 14, 7:30 PM

  Reading: Dick Evans

  Photographer Dick Evans introduces and signs his new book of photographs of San Francisco’s Mission District that focus on its quintessential art form, the community mural.

  BAMPFA
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  Friday, May 4, 6 PM

  Reading: Bruce Boone and Robert Glück

  Writers Boone and Glück read their work.

  Programmed by Evan Kennedy

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  Thursday, April 19, 5:30 PM

  Squeak Carnwath and Susan Griffin

  Carnwath and Griffin discuss their recent books from Kelly’s Cove Press, noted publisher of California art and literature.

  BAMPFA
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  Friday, April 13, 6 PM

  Reading: Angel Dominguez and Kit Schluter

  Poets Dominguez and Schluter read their work.

  BAMPFA

  Programmed by Evan Kennedy

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  Friday, March 9, 6 PM

  Reading: Susan Gevirtz and Syd Staiti

  Poets Gevirtz and Staiti read their work.

  BAMPFA

  Programmed by Evan Kennedy

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  Friday, January 19, 6 PM

  Way Bay Poetry Assembly

  Celebrate the release of a series of postcard prints made in the BAMPFA Art Lab with a spirited mass reading of more than a hundred poems.

   

  BAMPFA

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