RSS FeedUpcoming EventsLunch Poems: Brandon Shimoda, April 4https://events.berkeley.edu/english/event/236916-lunch-poems-brandon-shimoda

Lunch Poems, Berkeley’s storied noontime poetry series, welcomes Brandon Shimoda.

Brandon Shimoda is the author of several books of poetry and prose, including: The Grave on the Wall, recipient of the PEN Open Book Award; Evening Oracle, recipient of the William Carlos Williams Award from the Poetry Society of America; and his two-volume Tucson/desert book, The Desert. His latest work, Hydra Medusa, was published by Nightboat Books this year. He is an associate professor at Colorado College, and curator of the Hiroshima Library, an itinerant reading room/collection of books on the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

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Holloway Poetry Series: LaTasha Nevada Diggs, April 10https://events.berkeley.edu/english/event/236178-holloway-poetry-series-latasha-nevada-diggs

The Holloway Series presents a reading by poet LaTasha Nevada Diggs.

LaTasha Nevada Diggs is a poet and sound artist from Harlem. She is the author of Village (Coffee House Books, 2023), TwERK (Belladonna*, 2013), the chapbooks Ichi-Ban: from the files of muneca morena linda (MOH Press, 1998) and Ni-Ban: Villa Miseria (MOH Press, 2001), and the album “Televisíon” (2003). Her work has been featured at the Venice Biennale, the Whitney, the Brooklyn Museum, and the Museum of Modern Art. Her honors include fellowships from the New York Foundation for the Arts and Cave Canem, as well as a C.D. Wright Award for Poetry from the Foundation for Contemporary Art and a Whiting Award. She earned her MFA at California College of the Arts and is currently a faculty member at Stetson University and Brooklyn College.

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Holloway Poetry Series: Tim Wood, April 17https://events.berkeley.edu/english/event/237723-holloway-poetry-series-tim-wood

The Holloway Series presents a reading by poet Tim Wood.

Tim Wood is the author of Otherwise Known as Home (BlazeVOX, 2010) and Notched Sunsets (Atelos, 2016). He is co-editor of The Hip Hop Reader (Longman, 2008), and his critical work has been published in Jacket2, Convolution, the Colorado Review, The Iowa Review, and the Boston Review. He earned his Ph.D. from U.C. Berkeley, an M.F.A. from The Iowa Writers’ Workshop, and is currently an associate professor of English at SUNY Nassau Community College in Garden City, New York. In Spring 2024, he is Holloway Lecturer in the Practice of Poetry at UC Berkeley. 

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