San Francisco Chronicle (Oppen, George; Rukeyser, Muriel et al.)

Original San Francisco Chronicle Newspaper Clipping Announcing Poetry Reading (December 19, 1977)

San Francisco, CA: San Francisco Chronicle, 1977. First Edition. Single Sheet. "Thirteen major poets throughout the United States will take part in a reading at 8 p.m. Friday at Nourse Auditorium, as a tribute to Amnesty International. The world-wide human rights organization was awarded the 1977 Nobel Peace Prize for its work on behalf of securing the release of political prisoners in oppressed countries. The program will include three poets who rarely appear publicly in the Bay Area: Muriel Rukeyser, Kay Boyle and George Oppen, the latter a San Francisco resident and 1969 Pulitzer award winner. Other poets who will read from their work will include Nanos Valaoritis, Fernando Alegria, Lennart Bruce, Andrei Codrescu, David Henderson, Victor Hernandez Cruz, Philip Levine, Eugene Ruggles and Jack Hirschman. Miriam Patchen, widow of Kenneth Patchen, will read selections from his work” (from “Thirteen Poets to Read Friday Night”). Offered here is a newspaper clipping from the Monday, December 19th, 1977 edition of the San Francisco Chronicle advertising a very important reading related to the San Francisco Renaissance. Featuring American Objectivist poet, George Oppen (1908-1984), celebrated Late Modernist Muriel Rukeyser (1930-1980), and eleven other poets — most of them affiliated with the Second San Francisco Renaissance — the reading was set up as a benefit for Amnesty International, which had won the Nobel Prize that year for its work on behalf of political prisoners, per the quotation above. Nourse Auditorium, Second San Francisco Renaissance readers-&-scholars may recall, was also the location of the First Annual San Francisco International Poetry Festival: the apex moment for the SSFR. As a piece of ephemera, this collectible attests to the respectability and reach of the poets affiliated with the Renaissance, as well as the fact that the Bay Area was such a nexus for poetics during this period. From the archive of Thomas Rain Crowe, the legendary American poet and co-authorial founder of the Second San Francisco Renaissance. For more information on the Thomas Rain Crowe archive (assembled & curated by Third Mind Books), see our book, Starting from San Francisco: Thomas Rain Crowe in Conversation with Third Mind Books (Item No. 3071) & the catalog for the Crowe archive (Item No. 1010), which contains several excerpts and quotations from the book as well as a full listing of the archive’s contents, which are now being offered for sale individually on the Third Mind Books site. Newspaper Clipping on Single Sheet: from the first-&-only printing of the Mon., Dec. 19, 1977 edition of the San Francisco Chronicle. In strong near-fine condition with only moderate edge-wear and significant age-toning throughout; otherwise, clean. Near Fine. [Item #7780]

Price: $20.00