HOLLOWAY LECTURER IN THE PRACTICE OF POETRY

The Holloway Series honors one distinguished poet with a residency at the University of California, Berkeley, formally known as the Holloway Lectureship in the Practice of Poetry. Residents teach a semester-long creative writing workshop, and give a featured reading in the Holloway series. They are also given much needed time and space to write, while living in the Josephine Miles house in North Berkeley.

GEOFF BOUVIER is the 2009 - 2010 Holloway Poet. He is the author of Living Room (Copper Canyon, 2005), selected by Heather McHugh as the winner of the 2005 APR/Honickman Prize.

LYTLE SHAW has been chosen as the 2007 - 2008 Holloway Poet. Shaw is a professor of American Literature at New York University, and she will be offering a writing class at UC Berkeley during the Spring semester of 2008. His books 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). For more about Lytle Shaw's poetry and his Berkeley reading and reception, Click Here.

LISA ROBERTSON was the 2006 - 2007 Holloway Poet. Robertson lives in France, and teaches at The American University of Paris, and will be joining the Berkeley community for the Fall of 2006. Her books of poetry include The Apothecary, XEclogue, Debbie: An Epic, and The Weather. Occasional Works and Seven Walks from the Office for Soft Architecture, a linked series of essays on cities, architecture and ornament was published by Clear Cut Press in Fall 2003 and a chapbook, Rousseau’s Boat, was published by Nomados in 2004. Robertson is currently completing a book-length version of Rousseau's Boat. For more information about Lisa Robertson's poetry, and her featured reading, Click Here.



Over the past 26 years, the Holloway fund has been delighted to provide residencies for the following poets:

2009-10 ~ Geoff Bouvier
2008-09 ~ Ariana Reines
2007-08 ~ Lytle Shaw
2006-07 ~ Lisa Robertson
2005-06 ~ Mark McMorris
2004-05 ~ Alice Fulton
2003-04 ~ Geoffrey G. O'Brien
2002-03 ~ Carol Snow
2001-02 ~ Joshua Clover
2000-01 ~ Norma Cole
1999-00 ~ Anne Carson
1998-99 ~ Robert Polito
1997-98 ~ Linda Gregg
1996-97 ~ Timothy Liu
1995-96 ~ Jackie Kay
1994-95 ~ Ron Johnson
1993-94 ~
1992-93 ~ Lyn Hejinian
1991-92 ~ Yusef Komunyakaa
1990-91 ~ Medibh McGuckian
1989-90 ~ Tom Sleigh
1988-89 ~ Paul Muldoon
1987-88 ~ Heather McHugh
1986-87 ~ Michael Palmer
1985-86 ~ August Kleinzahler
1984-85 ~ Pamela White Hadas
1983-84 ~ Robert Hass
1982-83 ~ Naomi Shihab Nye & Frank Bidart
1981-82 ~ Louise Glück
1980-81 ~ Sandra McPherson