There exist in the UC-Berkeley Department of English two ongoing creative poetry series named after Roberta C. Holloway, whose bequest to the Department in 1980 initiated both. One is the Roberta C. Holloway Poetry Readings, which presents ten to twelve poetry readings each academic year, each featuring a Berkeley graduate student poet and a prominent visiting poet. The other is the Roberta C. Holloway Lectureship in the Practice of Poetry, which brings a poet to campus for one semester to teach a single poetry workshop and otherwise participate in campus literary life while also doing his or her own work.
Thanks to the Holloway bequest, the University has had the pleasure of hosting an extremely diverse and talented series of poets. Below is only a partial list of the poets and graduate students who have participated in our series. Click on the poets names to read their Holloway biographies or to find out more information about their work:
Armantrout, Rae
Baraka, Amiri
Bidart, Frank
Brolaski, Julian
Carr, Julie
Carson, Anne
Chen, Chris
Cheng, Ann
Clover, Joshua
Cole, Norma
Dennis, Carl
DeVore, Trane
Durantes, Dolores
Edwards, Rebekah
Fulton, Alice
Fisher, Jessica
Fulton, Alice
Gladman, Renee
Glaser, Brian
Glück, Louise
Goldman, Judith
Graham, Jorie
Gravendyk, Hillary
Gregg, Linda
Hacker, Marilyn
Hadas, Pamela White
Hass, Robert
Hejinian, Lyn
Hillman, Brenda
Hofer, Jen
Howe, Fanny
Howe, Marie
Huerta, Javier
Jarnot, Lisa
Johnson, Eleanor Bayne
Johnson, Ron
Jordan, J.P.
Kay, Jackie
Kingston, Maxine Hong
Kleinzahler, August
Koch, Kenneth
Komunyakaa, Yusef
Kunin, Aaron
Lauterbach, Ann
Legere, Charles
Lerner, Ben
Levitsky, Rachel
Lilley, Kate
Liu, Timothy
Loewinsohn, Robert
Lopez, Tony
Lu, Pamela
Mac Low, Jackson
McGuckian, Medibh
McHugh, Heather
McMorris, Mark
McPherson, Sandra
Muldoon, Paul
Nealon, Christopher
North, Charles
Nurhussein, Nadia
Nye, Naomi Shihab
O'Brien, Geoffrey G.
Palmer, Michael
Pearson, Ted
Perelman, Bob
Polito, Robert
Rankine, Claudia
Robertson, Lisa
Ronda, Margaret
Scapettone, Jennifer
Shoptaw, John
Sleigh, Tom
Snow, Carol
Stern, Gerald
Stewart, Susan
Swensen, Cole
Tardos, Ann
Watten, Barret
Walker, Anne
Williams, Tyrone
Wurgaft, Ben
Yau, John
Yepez, Heriberto
Young, Dean
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