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UC Berkeley special events, interviews, and lectures featuring distinguished faculty and guests. To view these events as webcasts visit webcast.berkeley.edu. Full course lectures available, too.
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Lunch Poems: Li-Young Lee
Author: Li-Young Lee
Thu, Aug 30, 2007
Arts & Humanities - Lunch Poems - Lunch Poems: Li-Young Lee - Li-Young Lee's collections of poems include The City in Which I Love You and Book of My Nights. In his poetry he explores a range of subjects, from his family's immigrant experiences to the haunting meditations of his most recent work.
"His poems are mad
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Lunch Poems: Mary Ruefle
Author: Mary Ruefle
Thu, Aug 30, 2007
Arts & Humanities - Lunch Poems - Lunch Poems: Mary Ruefle - Mary Ruefle extends the territory of literature into realms that only poetry can reach, never losing touch with her amazing sense of humor. Her seven books of poetry include her recent Among the Musk Ox People. She lives in Massachusetts and is making her first trip to California in 20 years. (C) Copyright 2006, UC Regents
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Lunch Poems: Luis Rodriguez
Author: Luis Rodriguez
Thu, Aug 30, 2007
Arts & Humanities - Lunch Poems - Lunch Poems: Luis Rodriguez - Luis Rodriguez has published eight books of poetry, memoir, and children's literature. His poetry, including Trochemoche, has won a Poetry Center Book Award, a PEN Josephine Miles Literary Award, and Foreword magazine's Silver Book Award. He is also widel
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Lunch Poems: Cornelius Eady
Author: Cornelius Eady
Thu, Aug 30, 2007
Arts & Humanities - Lunch Poems - Lunch Poems: Cornelius Eady - Cornelius Eady's poetry meets the world's absurdities head-on with his own deft paradoxes. His highly personal use of language never detracts from its hard-hitting content. Eady's seven books of poetry include The Autobiography of a Jukebox, and his latest, Brutal Imagination. He's won the Academy of American Poets' Lamont Prize and teaches creative writing at CCNY. (C) Copyright 2006, UC Regents
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Lunch Poems: Robert Thomas
Author: Robert Thomas
Thu, Aug 30, 2007
Arts & Humanities - Lunch Poems - Lunch Poems: Robert Thomas - Robert Thomas is a Bay Area native whose first book, Door to Door, won the Poets Out Loud Prize and has created a sensation. Eleanor Wilner has praised the book's "unashamedly extravagant imagination." Yusef Komunyakaa has written, "Door to Door beckons t
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Lunch Poems: Michael S. Harper
Author: Michael S. Harper
Thu, Aug 30, 2007
Arts & Humanities - Lunch Poems - Lunch Poems: Michael S. Harper - This is a rare West Coast appearance for Michael Harper, who teaches at Brown University. He has published over ten books of poetry, including Songlines in Michaeltree: New and Collected Poems from University of Illinois Press. His book Dear John, Dear Co
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Lunch Poems: Robert Hass
Author: Robert Hass
Thu, Aug 30, 2007
Arts & Humanities - Lunch Poems - Lunch Poems: Robert Hass - After hosting Lunch Poems for eight years, Robert Hass has finally been prevailed upon to read his own poems in the series. Former Poet Laureate of the U.S., Hass is a UC Berkeley professor who has made important contributions in poetry, criticism, and tr
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Lunch Poems: Maxine Hong Kingston
Author: Maxine Hong Kingston
Thu, Aug 30, 2007
Arts & Humanities - Lunch Poems - Lunch Poems: Maxine Hong Kingston - Maxine Hong Kingston burst on the literary scene in 1976 with her book, The Woman Warrior. A UC Berkeley graduate and professor who retired at the end of 2003 after a distinguished teaching career, she has delighted audiences with books such as China Mena
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Lunch Poems: Lyn Hejinian
Author: Lyn Hejinian
Thu, Aug 30, 2007
Arts & Humanities - Lunch Poems - Lunch Poems: Lyn Hejinian - Lyn Hejinian is the author or co-author of 14 books of poetry, including most recently My Life in the Nineties and The Fatalist, as well as the award-winning My Life. Poetry Flash has described My Life as a work that has "real, almost hypnotic power, obvi
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Lunch Poems: David St. John
Author: David St. John
Thu, Aug 30, 2007
Arts & Humanities - Lunch Poems - Lunch Poems: David St. John - David St. John was widely praised and was a National Book Award finalist for Study for the World's Body. Recent books are The Red Leaves of Night from HarperPerennial and Prism from Arctos Press, and his newest, The Face, a book-length poem. His image-rich work muses on both ecstasy and loss. He has been awarded an Academy Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the O.B. Hardison prize from the Folger Shakespeare Library. He teaches at USC.
This event took place on April 1, 2004 in the Morrison Room of the Doe Library, UC Berkeley. (C) Copyright 2006, UC Regents
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Lunch Poems: Harryette Mullen
Author: Harryette Mullen
Thu, Aug 30, 2007
Arts & Humanities - Lunch Poems - Lunch Poems: Harryette Mullen - Harryette Mullen admits to being "licked all over by the English tongue." Her fifth poetry collection, Sleeping with the Dictionary, published by UC Press, was a finalist for the National Book Award and for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize in Poetry for i
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Lunch Poems: Frank Paino
Author: FAuthor: rank Paino
Thu, Aug 30, 2007
Arts & Humanities - Lunch Poems - Lunch Poems: Frank Paino - "Seductive, edgy, gothic and sublime, these poems haunt the body as much as the soul," wrote Beckian Fritz Goldberg of Frank Paino's second book, Out of Eden. Lynda Hull has said of his first book, The Rapture of Matter, "These fearless poems go where the
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Lunch Poems: Barbara Guest
Author: Barbara Guest
Thu, Aug 30, 2007
Arts & Humanities - Lunch Poems - Lunch Poems: Barbara Guest - Lunch Poems: Barbara Guest
February 3, 2005, 12:00 am
Morrison Library
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Lunch Poems: Eugene Ostashevsky
Author: Eugene Ostashevsky
Thu, Aug 30, 2007
Arts & Humanities - Lunch Poems - Lunch Poems: Eugene Ostashevsky - Born in St. Petersburg, Russia but raised in New York City, Eugene Ostashevsky is a poet, scholar and reckless metaphysician. A book of his poetry, The Off-Centaur, was published by Germ Folios, and his volume The Compleat Unraveller will be published in
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Lunch Poems: Suji Kwock Kim
Author: Suji Kwock Kim
Thu, Aug 30, 2007
Arts & Humanities - Lunch Poems - Lunch Poems: Suji Kwock Kim - "There's love and sadness at the root of those poems. There is also a bridge, a language that reads," writes Yusef Komunyakaa who selected Kim for the 2002 Walt Whitman Award for her debut collection of poetry, Notes from the Divided Country. Garrett Hong
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Lunch Poems: Fall 2005 Kick-off
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Thu, Aug 30, 2007
Arts & Humanities - Lunch Poems - Lunch Poems: Fall 2005 Kick-off - Distinguished faculty and staff from a wide range of disciplines read and discuss a favorite poem. This year's participants: Chancellor Robert J. Birgeneau, Beth Burnside (Molecular and Cell Biology), Kevis Goodman (English), Janette Hernandez (Education)
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Lunch Poems: Zack Rogow
Author: Zack Rogow
Thu, Aug 30, 2007
Arts & Humanities - Lunch Poems - Lunch Poems: Zack Rogow - Zack Rogow is the author of five books of poetry, most recently, Greatest Hits: 1979-2001, published by Pudding House Publications. Rogow co-founded the Lunch Poems series ten years ago, and served as its coordinator from 1996-2005. Rogow's recent project
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Lunch Poems: Al Young
Author: Al Young
Thu, Aug 30, 2007
Arts & Humanities - Lunch Poems - Lunch Poems: Al Young - California Poet Laureate Al Young has created a profound and enduring body of work that represents our time. Young's numerous publications in poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and for the stage and screen explore the American, human condition through the lens of the individual voice. Ray González writes that Young "paints a picture of who we are as a nation and how our complexity takes us beyond national borders as members of a global literary community." Originally born in Mississippi, Young resides in Berkeley. (C) Copyright 2006, UC RegentsTC
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Lunch Poems: Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Author: Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Thu, Aug 30, 2007
Arts & Humanities - Lunch Poems - Lunch Poems: Lawrence Ferlinghetti - A prominent figure in the wide-open poetry movement of the 50s, Ferlinghetti gave voice to a generation that changed the face of poetry forever. Challenging the elite's definition of art and the artist's role, Ferlinghetti founded City Lights Bookstore, p
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Lunch Poems: Mary Karr
Author: Mary Karr
Thu, Aug 30, 2007
Arts & Humanities - Lunch Poems - Lunch Poems: Mary Karr - Mary Karr's work has been deemed 'hardboiled, hardedged, hardbitten' by Poetry. Her allure is a gripping combination of savvy intelligence and an utter refusal for sentimentality. Karr is the author of four volumes of poetry including the forthcoming Sinners Welcome (Harper Collins, 2006), and the memoir, The Liars' Club. The recipient of numerous grants including The Whiting Writer's Award, an NEA, and a Guggenheim, Karr teaches at Syracuse University and lives in New York City. (C) Copyright 2006, UC Regents
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Lunch Poems: Mei-mei Berssenbrugge
Author: Mei-mei Berssenbrugge
Thu, Aug 30, 2007
Arts & Humanities - Lunch Poems - Lunch Poems: Mei-mei Berssenbrugge - Born in Beijing, China, but raised in Massachusetts, Mei-mei Berssenbrugge molds language with seemingly effortless beauty and grace that invites the reader on a journey between worlds. Among many other awards and distinctions, Berssenbrugge has received two NEA Fellowships and two American Book Awards. She has published three books of poetry, and Hiddenness, a collaboration with Richard Tuttle. Her selected poems, I Love Artists, is forthcoming from UC Press (April, 2006). She lives in New Mexico.
This reading took place on April 6, 2006 in the Morrison Library, UC Berkeley. (C) Copyright 2006, UC Regents
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Lunch Poems - Joanne Kyger
Author: Joanne Kyger
Thu, Aug 30, 2007
Arts & Humanities - Lunch Poems - Lunch Poems - Joanne Kyger
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Lunch Poems - Fall 2007 Series Kick-off
Author: Various
Mon, Oct 15, 2007
Arts & Humanities - Lunch Poems - Lunch Poems - Fall 2007 Series Kick-off - Additional information available at lunchpoems.berkeley.edu
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Lunch Poems - John Matthias
Author: John Matthias
Mon, Oct 15, 2007
Arts & Humanities - Lunch Poems - Lunch Poems - John Matthias
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Lunch Poems - Amiri Baraka
Author: Amiri Baraka
Mon, Nov 19, 2007
Arts & Humanities - Lunch Poems - Lunch Poems - Amiri Baraka
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Lunch Poems - Monica de la Torre
Author: Monica de la Torre
Fri, Dec 14, 2007
Arts & Humanities - Lunch Poems - Lunch Poems - Monica de la Torre
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Lunch Poems - Arthur Sze
Author: Arthur Sze
Sat, Feb 16, 2008
Arts & Humanities - Lunch Poems - Lunch Poems - Arthur Sze - (c)2008 UC Regents
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Lunch Poems - Diane di Prima
Author: Diane di Prima
Fri, Mar 14, 2008
Arts & Humanities - Lunch Poems - Lunch Poems - Diane di Prima - (c)2008 UC Regents
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Lunch Poems - Jessica Fisher
Author: Jessica Fisher
Wed, Apr 09, 2008
Arts & Humanities - Lunch Poems - Lunch Poems - Jessica Fisher - Support for this series is provided by Mrs. William Main, the Library, The Morrison Library Fund, the dean’s office of the College of Letters and Sciences, and the Townsend Center for the Humanities. These events are also partially supported by Poets & Wr
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Lunch Poems - Student Reading
Author: Various
Thu, May 08, 2008
Arts & Humanities - Lunch Poems - Lunch Poems - Student Reading - (c)2008 UC Regents
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