Creative Writing

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)

Watch...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7QSNF0jbr0w

Poetry Reading: Noʻu Revilla, D. Kealiʻi Mackenzie, and Donovan Kūhiō Colleps

March 23, 2023
Noʻu Revilla, D. Kealiʻi MacKenzie, and Donovan Kūhiō Colleps in conversation with Craig Santos Perez Thursday, March 23rd, 2023 5:00 – 6:15pm PST

Watch the livestream here!

This event is presented by the Arts Research Center with the support of the Engaging the Senses Foundation, and co-sponsorship from the Center for Race & Gender, and the Departments of English and Ethnic Studies.

2022/2023 Fellows Reading

May 4, 2023
Poetry & the Senses 2022/23 Fellows Reading Thursday, May 4th, 2023
5:00 – 6:30pm PDT

Watch the livestream here!

This event is presented by ARC in partnership with Engaging the Senses Foundation

2021/2022 Poetry Fellows Reading

May 5, 2022
Poetry & the Senses 2021/22 Fellows Reading Thursday, May 5th, 2022 5:30 – 7pm PST Maude Fife Room, 315 Wheeler Hall Watch the recording here!

This event is presented by ARC in partnership with Engaging the Senses Foundation

Detroit Roots: Tarfia Faizullah, Vievee Francis, & Matthew Olzmann

April 28, 2023
Detroit Roots: A reading featuring Tarfia Faizullah, Vievee Francis, and Matthew Olzmann in conversation with Chiyuma Elliott & Jesse Nathan Thursday, April 28, 2022, from 5:30 – 7pm PST
Doe Library Room 308A, UC Berkeley

Watch the recording here!

Celebrating Kundiman: Cathy Linh Che, Chen Chen, & Jenny Xie

March 10, 2022
Celebrating Kundiman: Cathy Linh Che, Chen Chen, & Jenny Xie in conversation with Lindsay Choi & Sophia Hussain Thursday, March 10th 2022 5:00 – 6:30pm PST

Watch the recording here!