All Readings from 12:10 to 12:50 p.m. on the First Thursday of the Month
Admission Free • Morrison Library in Doe Library • UC Berkeley
For directions to Doe Library please check the campus map. (lower right corner)
Series Kick-Off, 09.04.08 |
Ilya Kaminsky, 10.02.08 |
Robin Blaser, 11.06.08
Tracy K. Smith, 12.04.08 |
Tomaz Salamun, 02.05.09 | Gary Snyder, 03.05.09
A Korean Wave, 04.02.09 | Student Reading, 05.07.09
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September 4, 2008
SERIES KICK-OFF
Hosted by Robert Hass and university librarian Thomas C. Leonard, the kickoff features distinguished faculty and staff from a wide range of disciplines introducing and reading a favorite poem. This year’s participants: Gibor Basri (Vice Chancellor, Equity and Inclusion); Michaelyn Burnette (Humanities Librarian); Walter Hood (Landscape Architecture & Environmental Planning), Claire Kremen (Environmental Science, Policy & Management), Francine Masiello (Spanish & Portuguese), Linda Norton (Regional Oral History, Bancroft Library), Beth Piatote (Ethnic Studies), Jiwon Shin (East Asian Languages & Cultures), George Smoot (Physics), Tim Zuniga (UCPD).
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October 2, 2008
ILYA KAMINSKY
Born in Odessa, Ilya Kaminsky immigrated to the United States in 1993 when his family was granted asylum by the American government. Polish poet Adam Zagajewski says of Kaminsky, "He grafts the gifts of the Russian newer literary tradition on the American tree of poetry and forgetting." Kaminsky teaches comparative literature, poetry and literary translation at San Diego State University. Watch the complete webcast
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SPECIAL EVENT:
"The Berkeley Renaissance"
Robin Blaser, in conversation with Robert HassWednesday, November 5, 2008 4-5 p.m., Maude Fife Room (315 Wheeler Hall)
November 6, 2008
ROBIN BLASER
Robin Blaser emerged from the Berkeley Renaissance of the 1940s and ‘50s along with Jack Spicer and Robert Duncan, and later established himself as one of Canada’s foremost experimental poets. In addition to numerous works of poetry, criticism, and translation, Blaser has also penned an English and Latin opera libretto entitled The Last Supper in collaboration with Sir Harrison Birtwistle. Watch the complete webcast
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December 4, 2008
TRACY K. SMITH
Tracy K. Smith received degrees in English and creative writing from Harvard and Columbia, and was a Wallace Stegner Fellow in poetry at Stanford. Her first book, The Body's Question, was awarded the 2002 Cave Canem Poetry Prize, and her most recent collection, Duende: Poems, received the James Laughlin Award from the Academy of American Poets. She teaches creative writing at Princeton. Watch the complete webcast
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February 5, 2009
TOMAZ SALAMUN
One of the great postwar Central European poets, Slovenian Tomaž Šalamun has published over thirty books. Publisher's Weekly praises his "postmodern mix of giddy and global [and] the earthy retrospect he takes from his homeland.” Šalamun has taught at universities around the world. His There's the Hand and There's the Arid Chair, translated by Thomas Kane, is forthcoming from Counterpath Press in 2009. Watch the complete webcast
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March 5, 2009
GARY SNYDER
Born in San Francisco in 1930, world-renowned poet, essayist, and environmentalist Gary Snyder has published sixteen books of poetry and prose, and received the Pulitzer Prize in 1974 for Turtle Island. Snyder has traveled widely and lived for extended periods of time in Japan, where he studied and practiced Rinzai Zen. He is currently a professor at University of California, Davis. Watch the complete webcast
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April 2, 2009
A KOREAN WAVE
A remarkably strong generation of women poets has emerged in Korea in the last decade. For a week in April five of them will be visiting Berkeley, reading, and talking to Korean-American poets and the women poets of the Bay Area. This is a very rare chance to hear some of the most important and exciting voices in Asia: Jeongrye Choi, Young Mi Choi, Hyesoon Kim, [Seung-hee Kim - cancelled], Hee-duk Ra, Chung-hee Moon. Watch the complete webcast
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May 7, 2009
STUDENT READING
One of the year’s most lively events, the student reading includes winners of the following prizes: Academy of American Poets, Cook, Rosenberg, and Yang, as well as students nominated by Berkeley’s creative writing faculty, Lunch Poems volunteers, and representatives from student publications. Watch the complete webcast
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For more poetry events on the UC Berkeley campus, please see the web page of the Holloway Series.
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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 & Writers, Inc. through a grant it has received from The James Irvine Foundation.