Watch/Listen to my reading Lunch Poems @ U.C. Berkeley UC Berkeley Library, beginning and ending with generous words by Geoffrey G. O'Brien and Noah Warren: t.ly/e2NDf. My dream/poem in memory of Palestinian poet, writer, professor, activist Refaat Alareer begins at 9:40, ends at 14:50.

Thrilled to be amongst such company in the latest Poetry Review from The Poetry Society In the UK.

#ClipOfTheDay: “The age of portrait is drugged. Beauty / is symmetry so rare it’s a mystery.” In this 2018 Lunch Poems @ U.C. Berkeley event, Fady Joudah reads from his collection Footnotes in the Order of Disappearance. Watch here: at.pw.org/LunchPoemsJoud…

#ClipOfTheDay: In this recent installment of UC Berkeley’s Lunch Poems @ U.C. Berkeley series, ☀️ 🌤 ⛅️ 🌥 reads a selection of poems and essays with the theme of “oranges,” which address the memory of Japanese American incarceration and war. at.pw.org/ShimodaLunchPo…

we're *thrilled* to partner with The CODEX Foundation this year to bring letterpress printing to the Berkeley / Lunch Poems community. they're holding a letterpress printing workshop 7/27 to prepare for '24 LP reader Sherwin Bitsui. Info here —  codexfoundation.org/events

we're thrilled to announce our readers for 2024-2025: Sherwin Bitsui (Sept 5); Elisa Gonzalez (Oct 3rd); John Shoptaw (Dec 5th); Megan Fernandes (Feb 6); Jessica Fisher (Mar 6); and Geffrey Davis (Apr 3), all events free and open to the public! details: lib.berkeley.edu/visit/lunch-po…

from “Dissolve” by Sherwin Bitsui, in Poetry Foundation (April 2018). Bitsui will be reading for Lunch Poems next Thursday, Sept 5! poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine…

“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! events.berkeley.edu/events/event/2…

Starting today! UC Berkeley’s storied noontime poetry series, Lunch Poems @ U.C. Berkeley, features a fantastic lineup includingWhiting grantees Sherwin Bitsui, @athenek, and Geffrey Davis! Find out more about the series (free and open to the public) here: buff.ly/3z9UeGH

“An Inconceivable Figure in Time” by @athenek in moma.org/magazine/artic… written looking at Eadweard Muybridge’s experiment in motion Gonzalez will be reading next Thursday, Oct 3, for Lunch Poems!

“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! events.berkeley.edu/events/event/2…

“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! events.berkeley.edu/events/event/2…

please join us for a poetry reading by Megan Fernandes next Thursday, Feb 6, 12:10 p.m! events.berkeley.edu/events/event/2… UC Berkeley English UC Berkeley Library

“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 🔗 lunchpoems.berkeley.edu

“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! events.berkeley.edu/events/event/2…

unfortunately the reading scheduled for tomorrow is cancelled! please stay tuned on rescheduling.

please join us for a poetry reading by Jessica Fisher next Thursday, March 6, 12:10 p.m! events.berkeley.edu/events/event/2… UC Berkeley English UC Berkeley Library

“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! events.berkeley.edu/events/event/2…

please join us for a poetry reading by Geffrey Davis next Thursday, April 3, 12:10 p.m! events.berkeley.edu/events/event/2… UC Berkeley English UC Berkeley Library

"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! events.berkeley.edu/events/event/2…