A Side of Poetry with Your Lunch

Nothing to do for your lunch hour? Come visit the Morrison Library (located in the Doe Library) for its aptly named poetry series Lunch Poems. Lunch Poems is a recurring event that takes place on the first Thursday of the month from 12:10-12:50pm. Under the direction of Professor Robert Hass, Lunch Poems is a chance for the U.C. Berkeley community to listen to quality poetry as well as learn a thing or two about writing poetry.

The next event is on December 4th, 2014 featuring Gillian Conoley. From the Lunch Poems site:

Gillian Conoley was born in Austin Texas, where, on its rural outskirts, her father and mother owned and operated a radio station. She is the author of seven collections of poetry, including Peace (Omnidawn, 2014), The Plot Genie (2014), Profane Halo (2005), Lovers in the Used World (2001), and Tall Stranger (1991), a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. Her work has received the Jerome J. Shestack Poetry Prize, a National Endowment for the Arts grant, and a Fund for Poetry Award. Conoley’s work is widely anthologized, most recently in W. W. Norton’s Postmodern American Poetry. Her translations of Henri Michaux’s A Thousand Times Broken: Three Books are appearing in English for the first time and will be published by City Lights in Fall 2014. Editor and founder of Volt magazine, she is Professor and Poet-in-Residence at Sonoma State University.

Picture of the Morrison Library

Photo by Steve McConnell / Public Affairs.