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SPRING 2009 SEASON IN POETRY
Thursday 2/2
at 6:30pm
Ann
Lauterbach
with
Rebecca Gaydos
ANN
LAUTERBACH is the author of seven books of poems; her most
recent book is The Night Sky: Writings on the Poetics of
Experience. She is
a Professor at Bard College, where she co-directs the
writing division of the MFA program.
Thursday 2/19 at 7:00pm
Rob
Fitterman
with
Samia Rahimtoola
ROB
FITTERMAN is the author of the series
Metropolis XXX: The Decline
and Fall of the Roman Empire, Metropolis 16-29, and Metropolis 1-15, as well as War, The Musical with Dirk Rowntree. He lives and
works in New York.
Thursday 3/5 at 6:30pm
A.B.
Spellman
with
Nikhil Govind
A.B.
SPELLMAN published his first book of poems,
The Beautiful
Days, in 1964, and
his second, Things I Must Have
Known, just last
year. Between these books, he worked for many years for the
NEA, and taught African-American studies, poetry, and jazz
at Emory, Rutgers, and Harvard Universities.
Thursday 4/2 at 6:30pm
Cyrus
Console
with
Rebekah Edwards
CYRUS
CONSOLE’s first book of poems,
Brief Under
Water, was
published last year by Burning Deck
Press.
He is currently at work on a new manuscript,
The
Odicy, which is
a cycle of short narrative poems. He lives in Kansas and
teaches at the Kansas City Art Institute and the
University of Kansas. You can read his poem
“Brown Study”
in
No: A Journal of the
Arts.
REBEKAH
LAEL EDWARDS’ first book of poetry,
Then’s Elsewhere,
will be published by
Redwood Coast Press
in August. As a UC Berkeley graduate student in
English, she is writing a dissertation on fraudulent
embodiment, counter archives, and the aesthetics of
uncertainty.
AUTUMN 2008 SEASON IN POETRY
Thursday September 4th @ 6:30pm
UC Berkeley's Annual Faculty
Reading
Enjoy
new poetry from Berkeley's celebrated "Poet Professors,"
including C.S. Giscombe, Robert Hass, Lyn Hejinian,
Geoffrey G. O'Brien and John Shoptaw.
More info...
Thursday September 11th @ 6:30pm
Tom Pickard
with
Graduate Poet Hillary
Gravendyk
New
work from British poet, Tom Pickard.
More
info...
Tuesday October 14th @ 6:30pm
Michael
McClure
with
Graduate Poet Elizabeth Marie
Young
Poetry
from Michael McClure. More info...
Thursday October 30th@ 6:30pm
D.S.
Marriott
with
Graduate Poet Adam
Ahmed
Pre-Halloween
poetry from the author of "Incognegro."
More
info...
Wednesday November 12th@ 6:30pm
Caroline
Bergvall
with
Graduate Poet Nina
Pick
New
poetry from experimental poet, Caroline
Bergvall. More
info...
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SPRING 2008 SEASON IN POETRY
Thursday May 1st @ 6:30pm
Holloway Poet: Lytle
Shaw
The
University is proud to present a feature poetry reading by
the 2008 Holloway Lecturer in the Practice of
Poetry. Open
reception to follow. More info...
Thursday April 24th @ 6:30pm
Ariana
Reines
with
Angie
Yuan
Watch or listen
online
Work
that is "fiercer and wilder" than one could possibly
expect; poetry from the winner of Fence Book's Alberta
Prize. More info...
Friday March 21st @ 6:30pm
Linh Dinh
with
Marisa
Libbon
Watch or listen
online
Poetry that "raids and reinvents the language with an ardor
bordering on delirium." More info...
Thursday February 28th@ 6:30pm
Erín
Moure
with
Trang
Cao
Watch or listen
online
Celebrate
the shortest month of the year with Canadian poet and
translator Erín Moure. More
info...
February 7th @ 6:30pm
Nathaniel Mackey
with
Craig Santos
Perez
Watch or listen
online
National book
award winner and Professor of literature at UC Santa Cruz
kicks off the Spring season. More
info...
AUTUMN
2007
SEASON
IN
POETRY
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Thursday November
15th @ 6:30pm
Rachel Levitsky
with
Gillian Osborne
Watch or listen
online
Avant-garde
poet and critic Rachel Levitsky is a writer "committed to
social and spiritual change." Her poems are often "highly
charged, quick-to-read, funny and smart," sometimes
vulnerable and bare, and always engrossing.
Read More...
Wednesday
October 31st @ 6:30pm
Amiri Baraka
with
Michael Bigley
Watch or listen
online
Well-known
political activist, founder of the Black Arts Movement, and
winner of the American Book Award, Amiri Baraka's work is
both provocative and thoughtful, aggressive and
inquisitive. Come see for yourself.
Read More...
Thursday
October 4th @ 6:30pm
Ted Pearson
with
Sookyoung Lee
Watch or listen
online
Pearson's newest work lifts
language "into the sphere of pure music, sheer
meaningfulness." Come listen to these new works,
elaborated over the course of thirty years, but fresh
now in their insistence and brilliance.
Read More...
Thursday September 27th @ 6:30pm
Rae Armantrout
with
Charity Ketz
Watch or listen
online
"Transformative" and "ingenious"
work from one of the most original poetic voices in
recent memory. Don't miss Armantrout's strange and
lovely poems.
Read More...
Wednesday
September 5th @ 7:00pm
UC Berkeley Annual Faculty
Reading
Watch
or listen online
The Holloway kicks off its 2007 -
2008 Series with the always lively and wonderful faculty
reading. Featuring our troupe of prizewinning professors:
Cecil Giscombe, Robert Hass, Lyn Hejinian, Geoffrey G.
O'Brien, and John Shoptaw. Read More...
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