Lunch Poems @ U.C. Berkeley

A monthly noontime poetry reading in Berkeley's Morrison Library. Director: @whatwillsuffice.

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Please join us next week for our first reading of the academic year, given by Rowan Ricardo Phillips on Thursday, October 1st in the Morrison Library at 12:10pm. Link: https://t.co/7gyl2Awm4s

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Please join us next week for our final reading of the semester, given by Brandon Brown on Thursday, May 7th at noon in the Morrison Library. https://t.co/wwdMPxKSxR

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This Thursday, April 2nd, please join us for a noontime poetry reading by Tonya Foster at UC Berkeley's Morrison Library. Details below: https://t.co/o96MRwvfQt

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Please join us this Thursday, March 5th at 12:10pm in the Morrison Library for a reading by Cindy Juyoung Ok! Details below: https://t.co/elnWmHJvuF

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2/5 that is!

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This Thursday, 2/4: Come to the library for a noontime reading by Bay Area poet Aracelis Girmay
Morrison Library (inside Doe) 📷 12:10 p.m. 📷https://t.co/HQBCkQPjuY🔗

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Please join us for a poetry reading by Juliana Spahr next Thursday, November 6, at 12:10pm in the Morrison Library.

https://t.co/YgaIcwDCVA

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"Dear Boy: Despite my return to running water
and migratory moods, I have spent your life"

from “The Night Angler” by Geffrey Davis

please join us for Davis's poetry reading
THIS Thursday, April 3, 12:10 p.m!

https://t.co/sE9fEsV0cG

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please join us for a poetry reading by Geffrey Davis next Thursday, April 3, 12:10 p.m!

https://t.co/sE9fEsV0cG

@UCBEnglish @UCBerkeleyLib

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“When I was a child, I was given a coin, caked in dirt. Tell me, she said, from whence came this coin, and whom did it serve”

from “Hinge” by Jessica Fisher

please join us for Fisher's poetry reading
THIS Thursday, March 6, 12:10 p.m!

https://t.co/xrwb4asVnm

[Lunch Poems @ U.C. Berkeley @PoemsLunch]

please join us for a poetry reading by Jessica Fisher next Thursday, March 6, 12:10 p.m!

https://t.co/xrwb4attcU

@UCBEnglish @UCBerkeleyLib

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unfortunately the reading scheduled for tomorrow is cancelled!

please stay tuned on rescheduling.

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“The few weeks I was pregnant, whenever people asked
how are you, meg? I’d answer, oh ya know… with child”

from “Orlando” by Megan Fernandes

please join us for Fernandes's poetry reading
THIS Thursday, Feb 6, 12:10 p.m!

https://t.co/fckPuUXTy7

[UC Berkeley Library @UCBerkeleyLib]

“One must look
for signs
to believe in them.”

Next week: Immerse yourself in a world of poetry with a reading by …

✨ Megan Fernandes ✨

📍 Morrison Library (inside Doe)
🗓️ 12:10 p.m., Thursday, Feb. 6
🔗 https://t.co/j5gh7bI81Q

[Lunch Poems @ U.C. Berkeley @PoemsLunch]

“The few weeks I was pregnant, whenever people asked
how are you, meg? I’d answer, oh ya know… with child”

from “Orlando” by Megan Fernandes

please join us for Fernandes's poetry reading
THIS Thursday, Feb 6, 12:10 p.m!

https://t.co/fckPuUXTy7

[Lunch Poems @ U.C. Berkeley @PoemsLunch]

please join us for a poetry reading by Megan Fernandes next Thursday, Feb 6, 12:10 p.m!

https://t.co/fckPuUXTy7

@UCBEnglish @UCBerkeleyLib

[Lunch Poems @ U.C. Berkeley @PoemsLunch]

“Unlike the monarch, though
the asteroid also slipped
quietly from its colony
on its annular migration
between Jupiter and Mars,”

from “Near-Earth Object” by John Shoptaw

please join us for Shoptaw's poetry reading
THIS Thursday, Dec 5, 12:10 p.m!

https://t.co/JJ4DoioSwA

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“Pink thud of luggage off my head.
Flying object damage sustained while preparing to leave one apartment for another:”

from “An Inconceivable Figure in Time” by Elisa Gonzalez

please join us for Gonzalez's poetry reading
THIS Thursday, Oct 3, 12:10 p.m!

https://t.co/STE0zZ5YKU

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“An Inconceivable Figure in Time” by @athenek in https://t.co/XQ8NpFjxyn

written looking at Eadweard Muybridge’s experiment in motion

Gonzalez will be reading next Thursday, Oct 3, for Lunch Poems!

[Whiting Foundation @WhitingFdn]

Starting today! UC Berkeley’s storied noontime poetry series, @PoemsLunch, features a fantastic lineup includingWhiting grantees @SherwinBitsui, @athenek, and Geffrey Davis! Find out more about the series (free and open to the public) here: https://t.co/peZbznToEZ

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“On limbs of slanted light
painted with my mind’s skin color,
I step upon black braids,”

from “Dissolve” by Sherwin Bitsui

please join us for Bitsui's poetry reading
THIS Thursday, Sept 5, 12:10 p.m!

https://t.co/Ujzckh7TiX