MINE Gallery's poetry and prose series continues this month on Sunday December 22, at 3pm, Jack Hirschman and Agneta Falk will be reading selected poetry and prose.
Agneta Falk was born in Stockholm, Sweden in 1946. She is
a poet, visual artist, editor and translator. In her twenties she
moved to England, and in 1998 she moved to San Francisco. A former
educator and co-director of a literature development agency, she’s organized and participated in many international poetry festivals. Her poetry is translated into many languages & she exhibits her art internationally. Her latest
book, Heart Muscle was published, 2009 by Multimedia Edizioni, Italy. She’s a member of Revolutionary Poets Brigade.
Jack Hirschman is a founding member of the Revolutionary Poets Brigade and co-editor with Agneta Falk of the Heartfire 2nd anthology of the RPB. He has published, translated and edited more than 100 books of poetry. In 2006, Hirschman was appointed Poet Laureate of San Francisco by Mayor Gavin Newsom. In July 2007, Friends of the San Francisco Public Library, Mayor Gavin Newsom, Hirschman and the San Francisco Public Library presented their first San Francisco International Poetry Festival. Hirschman was named Poet-in-Residence with Friends of the San Francisco Public Library in 2009 and currently holds that status. Hirschman continues his work supporting the literary community and is the key organizer for the now biennial San Francisco International Poetry
Festival and as the U.S. representative to the Coordinating Committee of the World Poetry Movement founded in 2011 in Medellin, Colombia. His 1,000-page masterpiece, The Arcanes, was published in 2006. The work, written
over decades, was heralded by Alan Kaufman in the San Francisco Gate
as “unlikely and historically significant a literary production as, say, the appearance of Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass or James Joyce’s Ulysses… like Whitman’s and Joyce’s masterpieces, it traces the progress of an individual consciousness through landscapes teeming with the horrible glory of modern life.” Hirschman has been hailed as “one of the left’s most prolific and consistent poetic voices,” by Contemporary Poets. But while he is known throughout San Francisco, his real literary fame has blossomed in Europe, where he frequently publishes both his original work and volumes of translation. Part of Hirschman’s
dedication to politics and poetry can be traced to his numerous translations of radical poets from around the world.
