Reflections on SPT’s Poets Theater by David Buuck

2013-01-11T15:48:46-08:00By |Categories: CounterPULSE|

Twelve years ago, in collaboration with New Langton Arts and the (sadly missed) Jon Sims Performing Arts Center, Small Press Traffic helped organize a Poets Theater festival, with several plays and panels in multiple locations around San Francisco. Though initially intended to be a one-time celebration of plays from the 80s and 90s, several younger poets were inspired to re-animate the tradition, and the annual SPT Poets Theater fest was born. Under the ambitious leadership of Elizabeth Treadwell Jackson, and with