The Grand Piano

Talks and Events During the Grand Piano Period

1976 – 1977 – 1978 – 1979 – 1980

1976

February

2/11: Robin Blaser & Ebbe Borregaard, Poetry Center, San Francisco State University (PC)
2/12: David Bromige & Sherril Jaffe, University of California, Berkeley (UCB)
2/13: Gary Snyder, PC.
2/25: Kathleen Fraser & Louise Glück, PC
2/26: David Bromige, Michael Davidson, & Michael Palmer, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA)
2/28: Alice Notley & William Bathurst, PC

March

3/3: Dick Gallup & Victor Hernandez Cruz, PC
3/5: Michael McClure & Lawrence Ferlinghetti, PC (Veterans Memorial)
3/10: Lorenzo Thomas & David Henderson, PC
3/17: Diane di Prima, PC
3/24: Jack Marshall & Janine Pommy Vega, PC
3/31: Maureen Owen, Rebecca Brown, & Rebecca Wright, PC

April

4/28: Edward Dorn & Ed Sanders, PC (New College)
4/29: Basil Bunting, SFMOMA

May

5/5: Philip Whalen & Clark Coolidge, PC

June

6/16: Michael Palmer & Bill Berkson, Owl & Monkey

July

7/13: Ron Silliman & Kenneth Irby, Intersection
7/21: Michael Palmer & Leslie Scalapino, Cody's

September

9/9: Kit Robinson, Bolinas Public Utilities District (BPUD)
9/23: Michael Palmer, BPUD
9/30: Ted Pearson, BPUD

October

10/13: Barry Eisenberg & Lyn Hejinian, Old Mill
10/15: Larry Kearney & Jamie MacInnis, PC
10/20: Jack Collom, PC
10/27: Tom Clark & Donald Hall, PC

November

11/3: Tom Raworth & Daphne Marlatt, PC
11/10: panel (Tom Mandel, Stephen Vincent, Nina Serano, Ron Silliman), Intersection
11/10: Ted Greenwald& Al Robles, PC
11/16: Lewis MacAdams, PC
11/23: Barbara Gravelle & Tom Mandel, Capricorn Asunder Gallery
11/24: Sand Dollar Press reading, Cody's

December

12/1: Michael Palmer & Margaret Jenkins Dance Company, PC
12/15: Sotère Torregian & William Everson, PC

1977

January

1/19: Lewis MacAdams, Bill Berkson, Michael Palmer, & Sara Schrom, Blue Dolphin.

February

2/9: Kathy Acker & Jim Gustafson, PC.
2/17: Anselm Hollo & Robert Harris, PC.

March

3/2: Amiri Baraka, PC.
3/16: Tom Peterson & Michael Palmer, University of San Francisco.
3/17: Bob Perelman & Steve Benson, Third Floor Bookstore.
3/31: Kit Robinson & Alan Bernheimer, Third Floor.

April

4/3: Kit Robinson & Ron Silliman, South of Market Cultural Center (SoMa).
4/10: Barrett Watten & Norman Fischer, SoMa.
4/15-16: In the American Grain: Poets on Poetry, conference and reading, UC Extension, San Francisco.
4/16: 5th Actualist Convention, Blake Street Hawkeyes.
4/17: Steve Benson & Carla Harryman, SoMa.
4/20: Barrett Watten & Bob Perelman, Cody's.
4/21: Carla Harryman & Barrett Watten, Third Floor.
4/24: Bob Perelman & Julia Vose, SoMa.
4/27: Larry Fagin & Ron Loewinsohn, PC.
4/28: Carla Harryman, "Walking Backwards with The Maintains; or, Other Pressures," The Talks, 1220 Folsom.

May

5/5: Bob Perelman, "On Enthusiasm & Memory," Talks/1220 Folsom.
5/12: Barrett Watten, "On Objectivism," Talks/1220 Folsom.
5/18: Michael Palmer, KALX; Summer Brenner & Stephen Rodefer, PC.
5/19: Steve Benson, "Views of Communist China," Talks/1220 Folsom.
5/21: Ron Silliman, "On Truth," & G.P. Skratz, "On Lies," Talks/1220 Folsom.
5/30: Barbara Baracks, "Gossip," Talks/1220 Folsom.

June

6/2: David Bromige, "Intention & Poetry," Talks/ 1220 Folsom.
6/8: Sherril Jaffe & David Bromige, Cody's.
6/23: Bill Graves, "The Bathetic," Talks/1220 Folsom.
6/30: Lewis MacAdams, "Poetry & Politics," Talks/1220 Folsom.

July

7/24: David Bromige & Abigail Child, Terminal Concepts.
7/31: Jean Day & Ted Pearson, Terminal Concepts.

August

8/4: Douglas Woolf, "Tenses," Talks/1220 Folsom.
8/11: Clark Coolidge & Michael Palmer, "A Conversation," Talks/1220 Folsom.
8/21: Bob Perelman & Kit Robinson, Terminal Concepts.

September

9/15: Robert Duncan, "Sound & Voice," Talks/1220 Folsom.
9/16: Hills reading, Fort Mason.
9/29: Lyn Hejinian, "Chronic Ideas," Talks/1220 Folsom.

October

10/10: Kit Robinson, KALW.
10/13: Tom Veitch, "God," Talks/1220 Folsom.
10/27: Tom Mandel, "Blindness," Talks/1220 Folsom.

November

11/9: Ron Silliman, Stephen Vincent, & Lyn Hejinian, Cody's.
11/10: Morgan Wines, "Christopher Caudwell," Talks/1220 Folsom.
11/13: Ron Silliman, Terminal Concepts.
11/17: Peter Holland, "Poetry & Natural Philosophy," Talks/1220 Folsom.

December

12/3: Bob Perelman & Francie Shaw, "With-in-Voices," 80 Langton Street.
12/17: Steve Benson & Humphrey Evans III (tape), "Blind Spots/Tales Out," 80 Langton.
12/18: Actualist Convention, Terminal Concepts.

1978

February

2/12: Gallery Works reading, Terminal Concepts.
2/13: Gordon Craig & Jean Day on "Bay Area Writers," KALW.
2/16, Steve Benson, "Careers in the Arts," 80 Langton.

March

3/2: Christopher Dewdney, "Parasite Maintenance," Talks/1220 Folsom.
3/14: Carla Harryman & Rae Armantrout, A Woman's Place.
3/15: Tony Towle, "Lecture on Poetry," Talks/80 Langton.
3/23: Bob Perelman, "Style," Talks/ 80 Langton.

April

4/5: Gallery Works benefit, Cody's.
4/7: Rova Saxophone Quartet & Klezmorim, Metropolitan Art Center.
4/23: Tom Mandel, Terminal Concepts.
4/27: Bill Berkson, "Frank O'Hara," Talks/80 Langton; James Koller & Douglas Woolf, PC.

May

5/9: Robert Creeley & Robert Duncan, PC.
5/28: Michael Palmer & Lyn Hejinian, Blue Dolphin.

June

6/27: Small Press Traffic benefit, Intersection.

July

7/20: Michael Davidson, "The Prose of Fact," Talks/80 Langton.
7/27: Steve Benson, Small Press Traffic (SPT).

August

8/11: Ted Berrigan, In the American Tree, KPFA.
8/?: (dates unknown) Rae Armantrout, Kathleen Fraser, & Bob Perelman, In the American Tree, KPFA.

September

9/16: Ron Silliman, "Ketjak," Hallidie Plaza, San Francisco.
9/28: Allen Ginsberg, PC.

October

10/1: Phyllis Koestenbaum & Lyn Hejinian, Plowshare Bookstore.
10/11: Rae Armantrout & David Bromige, PC; Rae Armantrout & Kit Robinson, Cody's.
10/17: Stella Nathan Monday & David Bromige, Intersection.
10/18: Bob Perelman & Robert Grenier, SPT.
10/29: Paul Mariah, Robert Glück, Steve Benson, Steve Abbott, & Ed Mycue, Intersection.

November

11/1: Jack Gilbert & Ron Silliman, PC.
11/3: Steve Benson, Tree/KPFA.
11/6: William S. Burroughs, UCB.
11/10: Alan Bernheimer, Tree/ KPFA.
11/15: Louis Zukofsky, "A"-24 (with Steve Benson, Barrett Watten, Kit Robinson, Lyn Hejinian, Carla Harryman, & Bob Perelman), UC Davis.
11/16: Louis Zukofsky, "A"-24, PC.
11/19: Ron Silliman & Carla Harryman, Plowshare.
11/29: Michael Palmer & Mary Oppen, PC.
11/30: Robert Grenier, 80 Langton.
12/6: Ron Silliman & Leslie Scalapino, Hermes.

December

12/8: Tribute to Louis Zukofsky, with Robert Duncan & Barrett Watten, PC (SFAI).
12/13: Cid Corman & Barrett Watten, PC.

1979

January

1/5: Michael Waltuch, Tree/KPFA.
1/10: Tom Mandel & Ronald Johnson, SPT.
1/12: Alan Lew, Tree/KPFA.
1/19: Carol Gallup, Tree/KPFA.
1/21: Tom Mandel & Bob Perelman, Plowshare.
1/24: Steve Benson & Robert Grenier, Cody's.
1/26: Robert Harris, Tree/KPFA.

February

2/2: Stephen Rodefer, Tree/KPFA.
2/9: George Mattingly, Tree/KPFA.
2/16: Victoria Rathbun, Tree/KPFA.
2/18: Kit Robinson & Steve Benson, Plowshare.
2/18: Robert Duncan "Whitman's Line," Talks/1220 Folsom.
2/21: Joanne Kyger & Robert Grenier, PC.
2/23: Tom Veitch, Tree/KPFA.
2/28: Charles Bernstein & Sherril Jaffe, PC.

March

3/7: Steve Katz & Ronald Sukenick, PC.
3/14: Bruce Andrews & John Thorpe, PC.
3/18: Barrett Watten, "Russian Formalism & the Present," Talks/Abigail Child's loft.
3/20: Warren Sonbert, "Divided Loyalties," Pacific Film Archive (PFA).
3/28: Rosmarie Waldrop & Keith Waldrop, PC.

April

4/1: Bob Perelman, "Pronouns," Talks/Abigail Child's loft.
4/15: Eric Mottram, "British Poetry," Talks/80 Langton.
4/18: Lyn Hejinian & Carla Harryman, SPT.
4/25: Ted Berrigan & Harris Schiff, PC.
4/29: Fanny Howe, "Justice," Talks/1220 Folsom.

May

5/2: Bob Perelman & Fanny Howe, PC; Michael Palmer & Laura Jensen, Cody's.
5/9: David Gitin & Stratis Haviaras, PC.
5/16: Lyn Hejinian & Barbara Guest, PC (Hansen-Fuller Gallery).

June

6/7-10: Anselm Hollo residency, 80 Langton.

6/8, translations;
6/9, modes of writing;
6/10, group reading.

6/11: Kit Robinson & Carol Gallup, Cortland Corners (CC).
6/19: Lyn Hejinian, David Highsmith, & Ron Silliman, Intersection.
6/24: Tom Mandel, SFAI.
6/25: Bob Perelman & Michael Palmer, CC.

July

7/1: Kit Robinson, Tree/KPFA.
7/8: Warren Sonbert, "Divided Loyalties" (film) & "Film Syntax" (talk), SFAI.
7/22: Lyn Hejinian "Lines," Talks/SFAI; Ted Greenwald, Tree/KPFA.
7/23: Steve Benson, CC.

August

8/4: Poets Theater. Eileen Corder, "Clearwater Beach Motel," Carla Harryman, "Percentage," Andy Gold, "Overexposed," Project Artaud.
8/5: Sherril Jaffe, Talks/SFAI.
8/9: Jill Scott & Carla Harryman, with Eileen Corder & Nick Robinson, Verbal Eyes, The Farm.
8/12: Erica Hunt, Tree/KPFA.
8/23: Lyn Hejinian, with John Woodall & Doug Hall, Verbal Eyes.
8/27: Kenneth Irby & Robert Grenier, CC.
8/30: David Bromige, with Irv Tepper, Verbal Eyes.

September

9/5-8: Peter Schjeldahl residency, 80 Langton.

9/5, art writing;
9/6, conversation;
9/7, discussion;
9/8, reading.

9/6: Barrett Watten, with Richard Alpert, Verbal Eyes.
9/7: Bill Berkson, Tree/KPFA.
9/13: Kit Robinson, with The Eva Sisters & Urban Type, Verbal Eyes.
9/16: Ron Silliman, "The New Sentence," Talks/SFAI.
9/18: Kit Robinson & Barrett Watten, Intersection.
9/20: Ron Silliman, with Judith Barry, Verbal Eyes.
9/21: Steve LaVoie, Tree/KPFA.
9/24: Kenneth Irby & Robert Grenier, CC.

October

10/5: Jean Day & Keith Shein, Panjandrum Books.
10/10: Tom Mandel & Ted Pearson, New College (flyer).
10/14: Melissa Riley, "Cats & Dogs; or, Categories & Dogmas," Talks/SFAI.
10/15-21: Clark Coolidge, residency, 80 Langton; "longwork."
10/17: Alan Bernheimer & Steve Benson, New College (flyer).
10/22: Erica Hunt & Johanna Drucker, CC.
10/24: Mark Linenthal & Simone Lazerri-Street, New College (flyer).
10/29-11/16: Robert Grenier, poet-in-residence, New College.
10/31: Ted Pearson & Beverly Dahlen, Cody's.

November

11/6: Michael Palmer & Kathleen Fraser, Intersection.
11/9: Robert Duncan, SFAI.
11/14: Richard Grossinger & Michael Palmer, New College.
11/16: John Mason, Tree/KPFA.

December

12/5: David Bromige & Bob Perelman, New College.
12/7: Lyn Hejinian, Tree/KPFA.
12/19-22: Barrett Watten residency, 80 Langton.

12/19, "Life Among the Surrealists"
12/20, "Total Syntax";
12/21, "Reverse Maps";
12/22, "1-10."

12/21: Ted Pearson, Tree/KPFA.

1980

January

1/4: Alex Smith, Tree/KPFA.
1/18: Rodger Kamenetz, Tree/KPFA.
1/19: Poets in the Schools reading, Cody's.
1/21: Steve Benson & Nanos Valaoritis, Tassajara Bakery Café.
1/30: Sherril Jaffe & Susan Roether, New College.

February

2/1: Gary Burnett, Tree/KPFA.
2/10-13: Alice Notley residency, 80 Langton.

2/11,When I Was Alive;
2/12, Dr. Williams' Heiresses.

2/13: Bob Perelman, Francie Shaw, & Larry Ochs performance, SFAI.
2/15: ROVA, New College; Tina Darragh, Doug Lang, & Chris Mason, Tree/KPFA.
2/18: Kit Robinson & Michael Palmer, Bakery.
2/24: Nanos Valaoritis, Intersection.
2/25: Philip Whalen, UCB.

March

3/5:Ron Silliman & Stephen Rodefer, New College.
3/7: Ron Silliman, "The Political Economy of Poetry," SF Socialist School; Occident benefit, Robert Hass & Michael Palmer, SFAI.
3/12: Kit Robinson & Carla Harryman, New College.
3/14: Ted Pearson & Beverly Dahlen, Panjandrum.
3/19: Darrell Gray & Allan Kornblum, New College.
3/24: Ted Greenwald & Joanne Kyger, Bakery.
3/25: Dennis Cooper, Kate Braverman, & Leland Hickman, New College.

April

4/16/80 Steve Benson, KALX.
4/21: Leslie Scalapino, "Aspects of Style in a Visionary Tradition," Intersection.
4/22-25: Kathy Acker residency, 80 Langton.

4/22, Blood & Guts in High School;
4/23-24, reading & discussion;
4/25, panel on narrative & politics.

4/23: Lyn Hejinian & Johanna Drucker, New College.
4/27: Barrett Watten, "Reverse Maps," SFAI.
4/28: Kathy Acker & Stephen Rodefer, Bakery.
4/30: Barrett Watten & Steve LaVoie, New College.

May

5/9: Leslie Campbell, "Gertrude Stein," Fort Mason.
5/25: Soup magazine reading, New College; Louis Patler & Larry Price, Ed Mock Dance Studio.
5/28: Robert Grenier, New College.

June

6/6: Alan Bernheimer & David Bromige, Julia Morgan Center (flyer); Norman Fischer, Tree/KPFA.
6/16: Alan Bernheimer, "Subject Matter," Talks/80 Langton.
6/20: Stephen Rodefer & Bob Perelman, Julia Morgan Center (flyer).
6/23: Barrett Watten & Doug Hall, Bakery.
6/25: Steve Benson & David Bromige, Intersection.

July

7/11: Ron Silliman performance, Knights of Red Branch Hall (80 Langton fifth anniversary).
7/13: Kit Robinson & Ted Pearson, Ed Mock Studio.
7/18-19, 26-27: Poets Theater. Carla Harryman, "Third Man" & Eileen Corder, "Mister Sister," Studio Eremos.
7/22: Carla Harryman & Stephen Rodefer, Intersection.
7/24: Kit Robinson, "Song," Talks/80 Langton.
7/25: Kit Robinson & Jean Day, Julia Morgan Center.
7/30: Cloud Marauder Press reading, New College.
7/31: Michael Palmer, "Autobiography, Memory & Mechanisms of Concealment (Part 1 or Part One)," Talks/80 Langton.

August

8/4: Johanna Drucker & Anselm Hollo, Bakery.
8/6: Robert Grenier & Anselm Hollo, Cody's.
8/7: Robert Glück, "Caricature," Talks/80 Langton.
8/14: Steve Benson, "Close Reading," Talks/80 Langton.

September

9/26: Erica Hunt & Steve Benson, Julia Morgan Center.
9/28: Steve Benson & Leslie Scalapino, Ed Mock Studio.
10/8: Leslie Scalapino, Susan Schiff, & Susan Strong, Mill Valley Book Depot.
10/15: Robert Grenier, "Language/Site/World," Talks/New College.

October

10/23: Ishmael Reed & Kate Braverman, PC.
10/25: Steve LaVoie, Julia Morgan Center.
10/26: Ron Silliman & Robert Hass, Ed Mock Studio.

November

11/5: Bill Berkson, New College.
11/14: Michael Palmer & Joanne Kyger, Julia Morgan Center.
11/20: Tom Mandel & David Bromige, Bakery.
11/25: Alan Bernheimer & Steve LaVoie, Intersection.

December

12/2: Leslie Scalapino & John Thorpe, Intersection.
12/4: Ron Silliman & Laura Chester, SF Socialist School. 12/11: Carol Gallup & Carla Harryman, Bakery.

San Francisco 1975–80

Talks and Events During the Grand Piano Period

1976

1977

1978

1979

1980