These video clips are the part of a series highlighting recent readings held by SF State’s Poetry Center and American Poetry Archives. Visit this website regularly for fresh poetic content.
Clark Coolidge introduces his reading of several works (by Jack Kerouac, Herman Melville, and “Exile’s Letter,” Ezra Pound’s 1915 translation of Li Po) that he’d previously read at a memorial for Michael Gizzi “in Jamestown, Rhode Island, June 25, 2011, the day that Mike’s ashes were scattered into Narragansett Bay.” He opens with a short poem by Keith Abbott, “Man Overboard,” at The Poetry Center’s celebration for Michael Gizzi's Collected Poems (The Figures, 2015), October 2, 2015, at The Green Arcade in San Francisco.
Susan Coolidge reads “Today,” from the “Last Poems” section of Michael Gizzi's Collected Poems (The Figures, 2015) as part of The Poetry Center’s celebration of Michael Gizzi and his work, October 2, 2015, at The Green Arcade in San Francisco.
Steve Dickison reads “Off Minor,” a poem dedicated to him and sent to him by Michael Gizzi in July 2010, from the “Last Poems” section of Michael Gizzi’s Collected Poems (The Figures, 2015) as part of The Poetry Center’s celebration of Michael Gizzi and his work, October 2, 2015, at The Green Arcade in San Francisco.