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Lunch Poems – 2009 Fall Series Kick-off
September 21, 2010
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
Holloway Series in Poetry – Alan Bernheimer
July 23, 2010
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
Lunch Poems – A Korean Wave
July 3, 2010
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
The Holloway Series in Poetry – Lytle Shaw
May 28, 2010
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
The Holloway Series in Poetry – Michael McClure
May 5, 2010
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
Lunch Poems – Cornelius Eady
April 25, 2010
Luis Rodriguez has published eight books of poetry, memoir, and children’s literature. His poetry, including Trochemoche, has won a Poetry Center Book Award, a PEN Josephine Miles Literary Award, and Foreword magazine’s Silver Book Award. He is also widely known for his memoir of gang life, Always Running: La Vida Loca, Gang Days in L.A., and for founding and directing Tia Chucha Press. [events] [artshumanities] [lunchpoems] Credits: producer:UC Berkeley Educational Technology Services
Duration : 0:57:7
The Holloway Series in Poetry – Brenda Hillman
April 22, 2010
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
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
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