San Francisco State University - Franciscan Yearbook (San Francisco, CA)

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. . . Your Poetry Center . . . seems to me the very project this community has needed for a long time 5 to make poetry active, to let people hear it, to encourage them to write and read it . . . to draw more and more people into the group, as well as bringing new ideas from a dis- tance . . . U -Josephine Miles . . . Certainly the best way for the poet to function, over and above publication, is in direct touch with an audience . . . to avoid vulgarization and academic-ization . . . a living contact with society is essential . . . A program like that envisaged by the Poetry Center of San Francisco meets all these qualifications. . . -K eneth Rexroth . . . A forum of this kind is of inestimable value to the literary world . . . All of us in Chicago were greatly heartened by the es- tablishment of the San Francisco Poetry Center . . f' -Karl Shapiro . . . This is not only a great encourage- ment to the poets themselves, but a planned and far-seeing step towards bridging the gap between the public and modern poetry . . . the program needs and merits the sup- port of all persons concerned with the vi- tality of high poetry in America . . .M -Allen Tate . . . The Poetry Center will make San Francisco a umusti' in the plans of visiting poets and painters who plan to come to the west coast . . . They will be stimulated to find new ways to produce new and signifi- cant works . . f' -William Carlos Williams X ll ' f l l 4 PN?-.2 I X 1 11' ' - ' 4-'J-gif' ,ffrf A . 1' nf ,. 4, fi, , 1 V, . Us --ff f ,- ,H fi' if bf N N x .hi fy l I l V v. f ,' l l .X vl . , f X ,N Y. , -.,,--f' l All lx Nl I X Wx Nix . at r Y, , L ti xx 7790- W f f flfT,, ff, , fri ,Ulf ,ff f f 1 l L ll. fs I 5: ,il if . - ,, 4, J , 1 I yg, .f-- W tx 1 W, ty I, ff .,,,f i J MJ , , gr! if l JAX, rr .H . 1 fl l . Jll .' , ,J ,fi fl if 1' , 'ff' . Y 'f' f4,'Q J 'iff' .57 rf .47 '2- zu , f fa L r, Y, ,ty 1 .Vx f., , ' V. 't Q' 'rxmx 's ui ' 'R gi 4 N ,X . Q, u f it X t , , t 'L M l l Y li ix l N Ji. rw i pl ll , . I, .Ga-, ffJ,ll ,-I If-' lily, ., f V ,',' A! .ff l A HX my X ' l it .1 it A lt it xiii. Y All xx, J x' y' ,ac , 1 1 -X I 1 BOGAN AUDEN R R 'X Q5 X WILLIAM S TATE SHAPIRO

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The Poets Enclorse. . lfi4'i'1TTW-fl lsl1WJT'2fflsirlilff W :lie !..tiJ1:l.1 lljif V 1 tgirl tl! N519 riglilli UQ The Poetry Center was organized during the academic year 1953-54 by Professor Ruth Witt-Diamant of the Humanities Division as a means of encouraging crea- tive activities and values concerned with poetry, and to that end bringing to the West Coast audiences the distinguished poets of our time to read from their work. From its beginning, the Poetry Center has offered a varied program of public poetry readings and workships in creative writing, recognizing its responsibility not only to the college but to the larger urban community which the college serves. The College administration and the lo- cal cultural institutions have co-operated generously. Poets have been presented in the campus theatres as well as at the San Francisco Museum of Art and the Tele- graph Hill Neighborhood Association. Un- der the auspices of The Poetry Center, poets have taken part in the annual San Francisco Art Festival, with round tables of reading and discussion of modern poe- try. KQLJ9 L, Qing if Q' -1 Local poets who have read for The Poe- try Center include Helen Adam, Ruth- Marion Baruch, Holly Beye, Paul Dreykus, George P. Elliott, Richard Emerson, Law- rence F erlinghetti, Allen Ginsburg, jack Gilbert, Madeline Gleason, Robert Dun- can, James Harmon, Leslie W. Hedley, Michael McClure, Richard .Moore, Thomas Parkinson, Alice Paula, James Sehevill, Gary Snyder, Jack Spicer, Philip Whalen, etc. The Poetry Center will continue to offer the Bay Area community a rich and varied program of activity related to poe- try, integrating the college as an import- ant cultural force in San Francisco life. Among the distinguished guests who have been presented are: W. H. Auden, Louise Bogan, James Broughton, Shi- Hsiang Chen, Malcolm Cowley, Richard Eberhart, Thom Gunn, Robert Horan, Norman Macleod, Kenneth Patchen, Ken- neth Rexroth, Seldon Rodman, Muriel Rukeyser, Karl Shapiro, Allen Tate, Wil- liam Carlos Williams. PATCHEN REXROTH - BROUGH TON

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