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Lunch Poems – Student Reading
April 7, 2010
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
Lunch Poems – Eavan Boland
April 1, 2010
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
Lunch Poems – Robin Blaser
March 21, 2010
Robin Blaser emerged from the Berkeley Renaissance of the 1940s and ’50s along with Jack Spicer and Robert Duncan, and later established himself as one of Canada’s foremost experimental poets. In addition to numerous works of poetry, criticism, and translation, Blaser has also penned an English and Latin opera libretto entitled The Last Supper in collaboration with Sir Harrison Birtwistle.
Duration : 0:52:13
Lunch Poems – Diane di Prima
March 14, 2010
World-renowned poet Diane di Prima, one of the preeminent writers to emerge from the Beat generation, wrote in Manhattan for many years before relocating to San Francisco, where she has been for nearly four decades. In addition to raising five children, di Prima has studied photography, collage, Zen and Tibetan Buddhism, Sanskrit, and alchemy, all of which inform her intensely lyrical writing. Her 43 books of poetry and prose have been translated into over twenty languages.
http://www.lunchpoems.berkeley.edu
Duration : 0:42:53
The Holloway Series in Poetry – Brenda Coultas and Wayde Compton
March 3, 2010
WAYDE COMPTON is the author of two book of poetry: 49th Parallel Psalm (1999), which re-imagines the migration of the first blacks to British Columbia from San Francisco, and Performance Bond (2004), which comes with a sound poem called The Reinventing Wheel. He co-founded Commodore Books, edited Bluesprint: Black British Columbian Literature and Orature (2001), and is part of the hip-hop performance group The Contact Zone Crew.
BRENDA COULTAS is the author of five books of poetry, from the innovative fictions of her Early Films (1996) to her most recent, the historical bricolage The Marvelous Bones of Time: Excavations and Explanations (2007). She was born in Indiana, studied at Naropa University with Anne Waldman and Allen Ginsberg, and lives in New York City. Each writer, she writes, must make and break her own rules.
http://holloway.english.berkeley.edu/
Duration : 0:58:26
Lunch Poems – Gary Snyder
February 25, 2010
Born in San Francisco in 1930, world-renowned poet, essayist, and environmentalist Gary Snyder has published sixteen books of poetry and prose, and received the Pulitzer Prize in 1974 for Turtle Island. Snyder has traveled widely and lived for extended periods of time in Japan, where he studied and practiced Rinzai Zen. He is currently a professor at University of California, Davis.
Recorded March 5, 2009
http://lunchpoems.berkeley.edu/
Duration : 1:17:22
Lunch Poems – Ilya Kaminsky
February 21, 2010
Born in Odessa, Ilya Kaminsky immigrated to the United States in 1993 when his family was granted asylum by the American government. Polish poet Adam Zagajewski says of Kaminsky, “He grafts the gifts of the Russian newer literary tradition on the American tree of poetry and forgetting.” Kaminsky teaches comparative literature, poetry and literary translation at San Diego State University.
http://lunchpoems.berkeley.edu
Duration : 0:42:27
Lunch Poems – Dan Bellm
February 19, 2010
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. He lives in San Francisco.
http://lunchpoems.berkeley.edu/
Duration : 0:39:44
Lunch Poems – Amiri Baraka
January 13, 2010
Revolutionary poet, playwright, and activist Amiri Baraka is recognized as the founder of the Black Arts Movement, a literary period that began in Harlem in the 1960s and forever changed the look, sound, and feel of American poetry. Baraka (formerly LeRoi Jones) helped to empower African American artists to establish publishing houses, journals, and university ethnic studies programs. His books continue to spark intense political and aesthetic controversy while receiving tremendous critical acclaim.
Duration : 0:56:38
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