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The Holloway Series in Poetry – Tom Pickard

admin — Mon, 25 Oct 2010 12:28:21 +0000

Tom Pickard, one of the livest truest poets of Great Britain (Allen Ginsberg), is the author of nine books of poetry spanning four decades: from High on the Walls (1968) to The Ballad of Jamie Allan (Flood Editions, 2007). He has, in addition, made several documentaries, including We Make Ships (1988) about labor history in [...]

Lunch Poems – 2009 Fall Series Kick-off

admin — Wed, 22 Sep 2010 02:22:34 +0000

Hosted by Robert Hass and University Librarian Thomas C. Leonard, the kickoff features distinguished new members of the English Department faculty introducing and reading a favorite poem. This years participants: Melanie Abrams, C. D. Blanton, Vikram Chandra, Eric Falci, Mark Goble, David Landreth, Namwali Serpell, and Emily Thornbury. http://lunchpoems.berkeley.edu/ Duration : 0:33:9 [youtube rfI0wwKem5o]

Lunch Poems: Student Reading

admin — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 08:58:08 +0000

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 [youtube peyK82tkgyg]

Holloway Series in Poetry – Alan Bernheimer

admin — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 20:55:13 +0000

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

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Lunch Poems – A Korean Wave

admin — Sat, 03 Jul 2010 22:05:54 +0000

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

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Lunch Poems – Student Reading

admin — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 17:56:23 +0000

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 [youtube yLbghjx4nI4]

The Holloway Series in Poetry – Lytle Shaw

admin — Fri, 28 May 2010 18:12:18 +0000

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 [...]

The Holloway Series in Poetry – Michael McClure

admin — Thu, 06 May 2010 00:40:24 +0000

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

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The Holloway Series in Poetry – Brenda Hillman

admin — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 07:11:11 +0000

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 [...]

Lunch Poems: Dan Bellm

admin — Sun, 18 Apr 2010 10:38:27 +0000

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

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