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. Advisory: contains strong language.
Kuwentuhan (Talkstory), a collaboration between The Poetry Center and Barbara Jane Reyes, is supported by the Creative Work Fund.
Barbara Jane Reyes reads “To Pray to the Goddess of Lost Things” at the opening event of the Kuwentuhan (Talkstory) project, on April 21, 2016, at The Poetry Center, San Francisco State University. The full program includes brief readings by all seven poet-participants in the project: Arlene Biala, Reyes, Javier O. Huerta, Lehua M. Taitano, Urayoán Noel, Angela Narciso Torres and Aimee Suzara.
Javier O. Huerta reads “-- -- ” on April 21, 2016, at Alley Cat Books, San Francisco, as part of the Kuwentuhan (Talkstory) project. The full program includes readings by Huerta, Lehua M. Taitano and Angela Narciso Torres.
Angela Narciso Torres reads from her poem “Arateles” on April 21, 2016, at Alley Cat Books, San Francisco, as part of the Kuwentuhan (Talkstory) project. The full program includes readings by Javier O. Huerta, Lehua M. Taitano and Torres.
Lehua M. Taitano reads from her poem “Sonoma” on April 21, 2016, at Alley Cat Books, San Francisco, as part of the Kuwentuhan (Talkstory) project. The full program includes readings by Javier O. Huerta, Taitano and Angela Narciso Torres.
Urayoán Noel reads from his poem beginning “hear me out human,” from Buzzing Hemispheres / Rumor Hemisférico (University of Arizona Press, 2015), on April 22, 2016, at Bayanahan Community Center, San Francisco, as part of the Kuwentuhan (Talkstory) project. The full program includes readings by Arlene Biala, Noel and Aimee Suzara.
Arlene Biala sings an opening invocation to “Yemaya” and reads from her poem on April 22, 2016, at Bayanahan Community Center, San Francisco, as part of the Kuwentuhan (Talkstory) project. The full program includes readings by Biala, Urayoán Noel and Aimee Suzara.
Aimee Suzara reads “The afternoon we found out you had gone … ,“ a eulogy written the previous day in tribute to Prince, on April 22, 2016, at Bayanahan Community Center, San Francisco, as part of the Kuwentuhan (Talkstory) project. The full program includes readings by Arlene Biala, Urayoán Noel and Suzara.