The Fall 2009 HOLLOWAY Series in Poetry
Th 11/12 ALAN BERNHEIMER 7pm
with JANE GREGORY
ALAN BERNHEIMER’s 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.
All readings take place in the MAUDE FIFE ROOM (315 Wheeler Hall) on the UC Berkeley campus, and are free and open to the public. Most readings are followed by a Q & A with the poet, and there are always opportunities for book purchase and signing after the event.
Fall 2009 Co-Curators: Professor Lyn Hejinian and English PhD Student Charles Legere (clegere@berkeley.edu)
Fall 2009 Interns: Rebecca Treadwell, Caitlin McGuire, Josh Escobar, Kayla Krut
Spring 2010 Co-Curators: Professor John Shoptaw and Charles Legere
For other poetry events in the area, check out our Poetry Links page with links to other reading series, including Lunch Poems and Story Hour.
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RECENT READINGS:
W 9/2 FACULTY READING 6:30pm
Featuring UC Berkeley Poet-Professors Geoff Bouvier, John Campion, CS Giscombe, Lyn Hejinian, Robert Hass, and John Shoptaw.
W 9/23 ANNE TARDOS and MAURICE SCULLY 6:30pm
Poet, composer, and visual artist Anne Tardos has recently edited “Thing of Beauty,” a volume of Jackson Mac Low’s new selected poems (California, 2008); her most recent book of poetry is “I Am You” (Salt, 2008). She is a 2009 Fellow in Poetry for the New York Foundation for the Arts. + Moving from discrete lyric sections and narrative shapes to innovative arrangements of the page, Maurice Scully’s work is thrillingly variegated, wide-ranging, and entirely original in Irish poetry. A maker of large forms, he has worked for the past twenty-five years on a long project entitled “Things That Happen.” “Doing the Same in English: A Sampler of Work, 1987-2008,” appeared recently from Dedalus Press.
Th 10/8 TOM RAWORTH 7:00pm
with Christopher Miller
Tom Raworth is a London-based poet and visual artist whose many works include “Ace” (1974), “West Wind (1984), “Visible Shivers” (1987), “Eternal Sections” (1993), “Survival” (1994), “Clean & Well Lit” (1996), and “Let Baby Fall” (2008); his “Collected Poems” was published by Carcanet in 2003.
Tu 10/20 GEOFF BOUVIER 6:30pm
The 2009-10 Roberta C. Holloway Lecturer in the Practice of Poetry
GEOFF BOUVIER is the author of “Living Room” (Copper Canyon, 2005), selected by Heather McHugh as the winner of the 2005 APR/Honickman Prize. Recent writings have appeared in “American Poetry Review,” “Barrow Street,” “Denver Quarterly,” “jubilat,” “New American Writing,” “Western Humanities Review,” and “VOLT.” He received an MFA from Bard College’s Milton Avery Graduate School of the arts in 1997.
Th 10/29 TISA BRYANT 6:30pm
with LYNN XU
TISA BRYANT’s work has been published in the “Believer,” “Chain,” “Step into a World,” and “Sustainable Aircraft”; her first book of poems, “Unexplained Presence,” was published by Leon Press in 2007. She is one of the co-editors of the multi-volume “Encyclopedia Project.” She is currently at work on “Spectral.”
LYNN XU received her MFA from Brown University in 2006. Her work has appeared in “1913,” “6x6,” “Court Green,” “Effing,” Eaogh,” “Octopus,” “Tinfish,” “The Walrus,” “Zoland Poetry,” and “Best American Poetry, 2008.” She is a PhD candidate in Comparative Literature at the University of California, Berkeley. She co-edits Canarium Books.
