Posts Tagged ‘berkeley’
Winners of the Academy of American Poets, Cook, Rosenberg, and Yang prizes, as well as students nominated by Berkeley’s creative writing faculty, Lunch Poems volunteers, and representatives from student publications read their work. Series: Lunch poems Reading Series [4/2010] [Humanities] [Arts and Music] [Show ID: 16937]
Duration : 0:45:41
Alan Bernheimers works include Café Isotope (1980), State Lounge (1981), the recently digitized 1981 play Particle Arms, Billionesque (1999), and Cloud Eight (with Kit Robinson, 1999). He has a new book, Spoonlight Institute, out with Adventures in poetry.
Jane Gregory grew up in Tucson, Arizona. She graduated from Vassar College in 2004 and then lived and worked in New York for a while before going on to Iowa, where she received her MFA from the Writers Workshop last spring. Her poems have appeared in Absent Magazine, Cannibal, The Hat, Soft Targets, Typo, and elsewhere. A chapbook was put out by Cannibal Books in 2007.
http://holloway.english.berkeley.edu/
Duration : 0:54:45
A remarkably strong generation of women poets has emerged in Korea in the last decade. For a week in April five of them will be visiting Berkeley, reading, and talking to Korean-American poets and the women poets of the Bay Area. This is a very rare chance to hear some of the most important and exciting voices in Asia: Jeongrye Choi, Young Mi Choi, Hyesoon Kim, Ra Hee-duk, Chung-hee Moon. They will be joined by Korean-American poets Cathy Hong, Suji Kwok, Sandra Lim, and Myung Mi Kim.
Recorded April 2, 2009
http://lunchpoems.berkeley.edu/
Support for this series is provided by Mrs. William Main, the Library, The Morrison Library Fund, the deans office of the College of Letters and Sciences, and the Townsend Center for the Humanities. These events are also partially supported by Poets & Writers, Inc. through a grant it has received from The James Irvine Foundation.
Duration : 0:59:2
One of the years most lively events, the student reading includes winners of the following prizes: Academy of American Poets, Cook, Rosenberg, and Yang, as well as students nominated by Berkeleys creative writing faculty, Lunch poems volunteers, and representatives from student publications.
http://lunchpoems.berkeley.edu/
Duration : 0:53:21
Lytle Shaw’s books of poetry include Low Level Bureaucratic Structures: A Novel (Shark, 1998), Cable Factory 20 (Atelos, 1999), and The Lobe Roof, 2002). He has also published a critical book, Frank O’Hara: The Poetics of Coterie (University of Iowa Press, 2006) and edited 19 Lines: A Drawing Center Writing Anthology (Drawing Center/Roof, 2007). Shaw is also a professor of American literature at New York University.
http://holloway.english.berkeley.edu/
Duration : 0:56:50
Michael McClure is a Bay Area countercultural icon whose numerous works include Dark Brown, Ghost Tantras (which he famously read to the lions at the San Francisco Zoo), the play The Beard, albums with Ray Manzarek, one-time pianist with the Doors, and with Terry Riley, a republication of The Boobus and the Bunnyduck, a 1957 childrens book made with the artist JessRain Mirror.
This summer, Elizabeth Marie Youngs full-length book, Aim Straight at the Fountain and Press Vaporize, won the Motherwell Prize from Fence Books (it will come out in 2009), and Omahrahu Press published a chapbook of her Sonnets. She is finishing her PhD in Comparative Literature at Berkeley, and will join the Classical Studies Department at Wellesley College in January.
http://holloway.english.berkeley.edu/
Duration : 1:24:35
BRENDA HILLMAN, a peace activist and one of Poets & Writers magazines 50 of the Most Inspiring Authors in the World, is the author of eight books of poetry; her most recent book, Practical Water (2009) is the third part of a quartet on Earth, air, water, and fire. She has received the William Carlos Williams Prize, and Fellowships from the NEA and the Guggenheim Foundation, and she is Olivia Filippi Professor of poetry at St. Marys College, where she teaches in the undergraduate and MFA programs.
Duration : 1:13:9
Dan Bellm has published three books of poetry, including Practice, winner of a 2009 California Book Award and named one of the Top Ten poetry books of 2008 by the Virginia Quarterly Review. His first collection, One Hand on the Wheel, launched the California poetry Series and his second, Buried Treasure, won the Poetry Society of Americas Alice Fay DiCastagnola Award. Series: Lunch poems Reading Series [4/2010] [Humanities] [Show ID: 17124]
Duration : 0:29:16
One of the year’s most lively events, the student reading includes winners of the following prizes: Academy of American Poets, Cook, Rosenberg, and Yang, as well as students nominated by Berkeley’s creative writing faculty, Lunch Poems volunteers, and representatives from student publications.
Support for this series is provided by Mrs. William Main, the Library, The Morrison Library Fund, the dean’s office of the College of Letters and Sciences, and the Townsend Center for the Humanities. These events are also partially supported by Poets & Writers, Inc. through a grant it has received from The James Irvine Foundation.
http://lunchpoems.berkeley.edu
Duration : 1:8:13
Born in Dublin, Ireland, Eavan Boland is one of the foremost voices in Irish literature. Her ten volumes of poetry include Against Love poetry, which was a New York Times notable book, and New Collected poems. She is also a noted editor and translator. Her awards include a Lannan Foundation Award and an American Ireland Fund Literary Award. She is a professor of English and Creative Writing at Stanford University.
Duration : 0:35:4