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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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