Lunch Poems @ U.C. Berkeley

This Thursday, April 2nd, please join us for a noontime poetry reading by Tonya Foster at UC Berkeley's Morrison Library. Details below: events.berkeley.edu/Library/event/…

Please join us this Thursday, March 5th at 12:10pm in the Morrison Library for a reading by Cindy Juyoung Ok! Details below: events.berkeley.edu/english/event/…

2/5 that is!

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. 📷lunchpoems.berkeley.edu🔗

Please join us for a poetry reading by Juliana Spahr next Thursday, November 6, at 12:10pm in the Morrison Library. events.berkeley.edu/english/event/…

"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…

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

“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 Jessica Fisher next Thursday, March 6, 12:10 p.m! events.berkeley.edu/events/event/2… @UCBEnglish @UCBerkeleyLib

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

“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…

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

“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…

“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…

“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!

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: buff.ly/3z9UeGH

“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…

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

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…