SAN FRANCISCO INTERNATIONAL POETRY FESTIVAL: readings in seven languages

July 26-29, 2012

Jack Hirschman, in collaboration with Friends of the San Francisco Public Library and the Mayor’s Office of Protocol, presented the 3rd annual SF International Poetry Festival in North Beach.

Footage is from three separate readings, the first having taken place on Friday at the Main Library and the latter two on Sunday at The Emerald Tablet and Jack Kerouac Alley.

  1. Joachim Sartorius w/Scott Thompson
  2. Lawrence Ferlinghetti
  3. Antonieta Villamil w/Barbara Paschke
  4. Dunya Mikhail w/Kareem James Abdul-Zeid
  5. Jane Hirshfield
  6. Sandro Sardella w/Bobby Coleman
  7. Agneta Falk
  8. Amiri Baraka
  9. Alejandro Murguia
  10. Carla Badillo Coronado
  11. Heinz D. Heisl