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Holloway Series in Poetry – Alan Bernheimer

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.

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The Holloway Series in Poetry – Lytle Shaw

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.

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The Holloway Series in Poetry – Michael McClure

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.

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The Holloway Series in Poetry – Brenda Hillman

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.

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Lunch Poems – Student Reading

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.

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Lunch Poems – Robin Blaser

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.

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The Holloway Series in Poetry – Brenda Coultas and Wayde Compton

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.

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Lunch Poems – Dan Bellm

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.

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Lunch Poems – Amiri Baraka

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.

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