Thursday, June 11 | 6:30–8pm
Free with Museum admission; $5 after 5pm.
Bill Berkson envisioned this night of local Jewish poets reading the work of deceased Jewish Poets*.
Readings by CJM Chief Curator Renny Pritikin, Maxine Chernoff, Suzanne Stein, Alan Bernheimer, Susan Gevirtz, Norman Fisher, Norma Cole, Alli Warren, David Meltzer, and Bill Berkson. Presented in conjunction with Bound to be Held.
*Some of those likely to be included: Gertrude Stein, Allen Ginsberg, Edmund Jabes, Joel Oppenheimer, Charles Reznikoff [pictured, above left], Carl Rakosi, Louis Zukofsky, George Oppen, Emma Lazarus, Nelly Sachs, Paul Celan, Adrienne Rich, Max Jacob, Robert Desnos, Samuel Menashe, Heinrich Heine, Osip Mandelstam, Boris Pasternak, Delmore Schwartz, F. T. Prince. Dorothy Parker, Kathy Acker, Kenneth Koch, and illustrious others. . . ,
Goldman Hall
Contemporary Jewish Museum
736 Mission Street
San Francisco, CA 94103
415.655.7800
San Francisco, CA 94103
415.655.7800