Creative Writing

Latinx Poetry Now: A Reading and Conversation with J. Michael Martinez + aracelis girmay

September 28, 2023
Latinx Poetry Now: A Reading and Conversation with J. Michael Martinez + aracelis girmay Thursday Sept 28, 2023 11am - 12:30pm Maude Fife Room, 315 Wheeler Hall

Join the Arts Research Center for our first Poetry & the Senses reading of fall 2023, featuring the incredible poets and multimedia artists J. Michael Martin and aracelis girmay. Following their readings, they will be in conversation with Prof John Alba Cutler (English).

J. Michael Martinez is a multimedia artist and the author of three collections of poetry, including Heredities, which received the Walt...

Writing Workshop Maōri Poet Robert Sullivan

September 20, 2023
Writing Workshop Maōri Poet Robert Sullivan September 20, 2023 1 p.m. Online

Robert Sullivan (Ngāpuhi and Kāi Tahu) has won awards for his poetry, editing, and writing for children, including the 2022 Lauris Edmond Memorial Award for a distinguished contribution to New Zealand poetry, Distinguished Visiting Writer at the University of Hawai’i, the Montana New Zealand Book Award for co-editing Whetu Moana: Contemporary Polynesian Poems in English, the Māori Literature Award for co-editing Puna Wai Kōrero: An Anthology of Māori Poetry...

Maziar Maghsoodnia Memorial Fund 2023 Reading Featuring Solmaz Sharif

September 13, 2023
Maziar Maghsoodnia Poetry Fund 2023 Reading Featuring Solmaz Sharif September 13, 2023 4 p.m. David Brower Center, Tamalpais Room Solmaz Sharif will give the 2023 Maziar Maghsoodnia Memorial Fund Reading. She will be in conversation with Lubna Safi, an...

Esther Belin: Lunch Poems Reading + Craft Talk

March 7, 2024
Esther Belin Lunch Poems Reading + Craft Talk Thursday, March 7, 2024 12-1pm: Lunch Poems Reading
Morrison Library 4-5:15pm: Craft Talk: Diné Land/Sound(scape) as Poetics
Arts Research Center, Hearst Field Annex D23

Presented by the Arts Research Center and the English Dept, with support from Dr. and Mrs. Tom Colby, the Berkeley Library, the Morrison Library Fund, the Dean’s Office of the College of Letters and Science, and Poets & Writers, Inc.

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Mother Language Day

February 21, 2024
Mother Language Day Celebration Wed Feb 21, 2024
10 – 11am
Hearst Field Annex D23

Echoes from the Borderlands

November 30, 2023
Echoes from the Borderlands with Valeria Luiselli, Leo Heiblum,and Ricardo Giraldo
Artists November 30, 2023 5:00 - 6:30 p.m. Maude Fife Room (315 Wheeler Hall)

This event was hosted by BCNM. You can find the original event page on their website here.

Claudia Rankine & Pamela Sneed

November 8, 2023
Claudia Rankine & Pamela Sneed November 8, 2023 6 p.m. Maude Fife Room (315 Wheeler Hall)

In Citizen. An American Lyric, poet, playwright and MacArthur fellow Claudia Rankine writes: “This would be your fatal flaw–your memory, vessel of feelings …” The accumulation of everyday violence and racism forms heavy memories that make it difficult to imagine a present and future different from the past.

In Funeral Diva, poet and visual artist Pamela Sneed laments surviving the AIDS crisis in NYC as a Black lesbian. While grieving the friends she lost, Sneed also...

Craft Talk with dg nanouk okpik

October 5, 2023
Craft Talk with dg nanouk okpik Eskimo in the City: Reading and Writing for Life October 5, 2023 4 - 5:15 p.m. Arts Research Center, Hearst Field Annex, D23

Poet dg nanouk okpik will give a public Craft Talk, Eskimo in the City: Reading and Writing for Life, at 4pm at the Arts Research Center. Okpik will discuss the obstacles to and liberations of literacy and poetry in an intersectional Native framework. Her talk asks how...

Chapbook Celebration

Chapbook Celebration
Featuring: Menat Allah El Attma, Nathalie Khankin, Rusty Morrison, Gracia Mwamba, Beth Piatote, Jared Robinson, Alex Saum-Pascual, Jennif(f)er Tamayo Monday April 10th, 2023 | 5:00 – 6:30p PDT Hearst Field Annex D23 – ARC

This event is presented by the Arts Research Center and Engaging the Senses Foundation.

On Monday April 10th, at 5pm PST, we’ll welcome back our 2020 Poetry and the Senses Fellows for a special evening celebrating the launch of their chapbook. During their fellowship semester the fellows explored the theme of Emergency. Each fellow...

Poets Laureate Reading

April 20, 2023
California Laureate Lee Herrick, Hawaiian Laureate Kealoha & Oakland Youth Laureate Nadia Elbgal Thursday, April 20, 2023 5:00 – 6:30pm PDT
Durham Studio Theater, Dwinelle Hall (map here)

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