SubscribeA series of readings by local writers, a listening station featuring recordings of selected poets, plus the opportunity to take home a free book from local presses highlight the The Reading Room, a special project dedicated to poetry and experimental fiction that opens Sunday at the UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAM/PFA).
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Reading Room offers adventures in poetry and experimental fiction
January 13, 2012:
Lunch Poems kicks off 17th year
September 8, 2011:
Lunch Poems, the popular campus poetry reading series, launched its 17th year on Sept. 1, with favorite readings by members of the campus community, including the executive vice chancellor and provost, a campus gardener, a Doe Library employee, a Ph.D. student and several professors.
Lecturer’s strategy: Memorizing poetry at the gym
April 25, 2011:
As the grand finale to his freshman seminar “Reading and Reciting Great Poems in English,” Steve Tollefson requires his students to recite 50 lines of poetry aloud in class. The UC Berkeley lecturer describes how he himself memorizes poetry — while working out on the rowing machine — in an essay published in the San Francisco Chronicle,
Lunch Poems series starts with rugby coach, French professor, among others
September 2, 2010:
The fifteenth season of the popular Lunch Poems Series kicked-off on Thursday at Morrison Library. The series features faculty and staff from a wide range of disciplines reading some of their favorite poems.
