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FALL 2010 CALENDAR of EVENTS
in memoriam Mark Linenthal
November 12, 1921—September 4, 2010
the Poetry Center
laments the passing of Mark Linenthal , poet, teacher, director of the Poetry Center 1966–72, and SFSU Professor 1954–92
photo: Mark Linenthal and Frances Jaffer His family has requested that donations be made in his memory to the Poetry Center. DONATE for the San Francisco Chronicle obituary, September 12, 2010 Mark Linenthal 's voice and presence runs throughout dozens of readings collected in the Poetry Center's American Poetry Archives, occasions which he organized and introduced. He read his own poetry for the Poetry Center numerous times, and on December 10, 1992, delivered the George Oppen Memorial Lecture . Again, on April 26, 2008, he revisited Oppen's work, opening the Poetry Center's Salute to George Oppen , for the poet's Centenary. He was a dedicated teacher, and his influence on his contemporaries and younger writers has been significant. Here is a notice by poet Michael Cross , editor of a forthcoming edition of The George Oppen Memorial Lectures, together with a transcript of Rob Halpern 's fine introduction to a recent reading by Mark Linenthal of his own poetry, at the Last Laugh Cafe, January 12, 2008. | |
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