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UCTV's impressive archive of poetry readings, interviews and conversations with established and emerging poets is the perfect resource to bring the art of language to life.

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    Let's Jam: Poet Thomas Dooley

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 17, 2022 8:27


    Our series of artists and educators connecting arts and humanities to medicine continues continues with Thomas Dooley, poet-in-residence at the Center for Compassionate Communication at UC San Diego's Sanford Institute for Empathy and Compassion. Series: "Let's Jam: The Arts in Medicine" [Health and Medicine] [Humanities] [Arts and Music] [Show ID: 37987]

    Rap on Trial: Is it a Crime to Rhyme?

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 15, 2018 5:15


    Should your art send you to prison? Rap lyrics are increasingly turning up as evidence in courtrooms across the country. The fictional characters portrayed in violent gansta rap songs are often a far cry from the true personalities of the artists behind them, yet uninitiated audiences easily conflate artist with character and fiction with fact. On a broader scale, using rap lyrics as evidence in criminal cases also raises questions about artistic freedom, freedom of speech and the rights of all citizens to receive a fair trial. UC Irvines Charis E. Kubrin, Ph.D and Adam Dunbar explore these issues. Series: "Zot Talks" [Humanities] [Arts and Music] [Show ID: 31368]

    From War Child to Global Citizen with Emmanuel Jal

    Play Episode Listen Later May 7, 2018 71:45


    Emmanuel Jal, an internationally recognized hip-hop musician, former child soldier turned activist and entrepreneur, shares his story and music. Jal was born into the life of a child solider in the early 1980s in the war-torn region of Southern Sudan. He calls upon all of us to engage with our world and become global citizens through scholarship, leadership and service. [Humanities] [Arts and Music] [Show ID: 33490]

    Yusef Komunyakaa - The 2017 Diana and Simon Raab Writer-in-Residence

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 5, 2017 56:31


    Yusef Komunyakaa, an internationally renowned poet who won the Pulitzer Prize for “Neon Vernacular: New and Selected Poems," reads and discusses his work while writer-in-residence at UC Santa Barbara. Series: "Voices" [Humanities] [Arts and Music] [Show ID: 32148]

    An Evening with Robert Pinsky - Point Loma Writer's Symposium by the Sea 2017

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 3, 2017 52:30


    Former Poet Laureate Robert Pinsky describes himself as a "composer" who considers poetry to be first and foremost a vocal art, and his work seeks to blur the distinctions between language and music by emphasizing the rhythms and innate physicality of recited verse in a jazz context. In this performance for the 22nd Writer's Symposium by the Sea at Point Loma Nazarene University, Pinsky's reading is accompanied by a talented trio of PLNU students. The music - a blend of rehearsed and improvised - employs a variety of jazz styles, sometimes sympathetic and sometimes in playful counterpoint, but always responsive to the poet's distinctive voice. Series: "Writer's Symposium By The Sea" [Humanities] [Arts and Music] [Show ID: 30820]

    Famous Ramayana Epic Now in Modern English

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 7, 2017 3:42


    UC Berkeley professors, Robert and Sally Goldman, led the 40-year project to translate the Sanskrit epic poem Valmiki Ramayana to modern English. Series: "UC Berkeley News" [Humanities] [Show ID: 31985]

    Resilient Love in a Time of Hate: A Discussion with David Kim and Sunni Patterson

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 5, 2016 118:08


    New Orleans native Sunni Patterson is an internationally-known Def poetry artist and activist. She is joined in a conversation with George Lipsitz and David Kim about her music and poetry, and her life reaching, teaching and healing. Series: "Voices" [Humanities] [Show ID: 31570]

    Potent Poet Sunni Patterson

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 28, 2016 3:33


    New Orleans native Sunni Patterson powerfully recites one of her many poems. Series: "Voices" [Humanities] [Show ID: 31630]

    The Poems of Nikki Giovanni -- Point Loma Writer's Symposium by the Sea 2016

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 6, 2016 29:40


    Poet Nikki Giovanni reads a selection of her poems as part of the 2016 Writer's Symposium by the Sea at Point Loma Nazarene University. Series: "Writer's Symposium By The Sea" [Humanities] [Show ID: 30819]

    An Evening with Nikki Giovanni -- Point Loma Writer's Symposium by the Sea 2016

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 19, 2016 88:30


    Author, spoken word artist, poet, essayist, professor, Nikki Giovanni has been electrifying audiences for more than 40 years, earning her one of Oprah Winfrey's Living Legends distinctions. She delivers here as well, with a passionate and engaging performance and interview with host Dean Nelson of Point Loma Nazarene University. Series: "Writer's Symposium By The Sea" [Humanities] [Arts and Music] [Show ID: 29674]

    Lunch Poems: 2015 Student Reading

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 27, 2015 35:30


    One of the year's most lively events, the student reading includes winners of the following prizes: Academy of American Poets, Cook, Rosenberg, and Yang, as well as students nominated by Berkeley's creative writing faculty, Lunch Poems volunteers, and representatives from student publications. Series: "Lunch Poems Reading Series" [Humanities] [Show ID: 29740]

    Joshua Weiner - Lunch Poems

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 8, 2015 29:00


    Joshua Weiner is the author of three books of poetry, most recently, The Figure of a Man Being Swallowed by a Fish (2013). He is also the editor of At the Barriers: On the Poetry of Thom Gunn, and the poetry editor at Tikkun magazine. He is the recipient of a Whiting Writers' Award, the Rome Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and a 2014 fellowship from the Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, among others. A professor of English at the University of Maryland, he lives with his family in Washington DC. Series: "Lunch Poems Reading Series" [Humanities] [Arts and Music] [Show ID: 29365]

    Jane Hirshfield - Lunch Poems

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 8, 2015 27:00


    Jane Hirshfield's eighth poetry book, The Beauty, appears from Knopf in early 2015, along with a new book of essays, Ten Windows. Previous books include Come, Thief (Knopf, 2011) and After (2006), named a best book of the year by The Washington Post, The San Francisco Chronicle, and The Financial Times (UK). She has also written a book of essays, Nine Gates: Entering the Mind of Poetry and edited and co-translated four books of work by world poets of the past. Her honors include The Poetry Center Book Award, the California Book Award, finalist selection for the National Book Critics Circle Award, England's T. S. Eliot Prize, and fellowships from the Guggenheim and Rockefeller foundations, the Academy of American Poets, and the National Endowment for the Arts. A frequent presenter at universities and literary festivals both in the US and abroad, in 2012 she was elected a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets. Series: "Lunch Poems Reading Series" [Humanities] [Show ID: 29540]

    Harmony Holiday - Lunch Poems

    Play Episode Listen Later May 4, 2015 41:02


    Harmony Holiday is a poet, dancer, and archivist, mythscientist and the author of Negro League Baseball (Fence, 2011), Go Find Your Father/ A Famous Blues (Ricochet, 2014), and “Hollywood Forever” (Fence, 2015). She reads to an audience at UC Berkeley. Series: "Lunch Poems Reading Series" [Humanities] [Arts and Music] [Show ID: 29488]

    Maria Hummel - Story Hour in the Library

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 27, 2015 58:02


    Maria Hummel is the author of the award-winning poetry collection “House and Fire“ and of two novels, “Motherland” and “Wilderness Run.” Her poetry, fiction, and nonfiction have appeared in Poetry, New England Review, Narrative, The Sun, The New York Times, and the anthology The Open Door: 100 Poems, 100 Years of Poetry Magazine. Series: "Story Hour in the Library" [Humanities] [Arts and Music] [Show ID: 29366]

    Gillian Conoley - Lunch Poems

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 9, 2015 35:05


    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. She is Professor and Poet-in-Residence at Sonoma State University. Series: "Lunch Poems Reading Series" [Humanities] [Arts and Music] [Show ID: 29108]

    Lunch Poems: La Dawn Duvall Reads Phenomenal Woman by Maya Angelou

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 2, 2015 2:51


    UC Berkeley Executive Director of Visitor and Parent Services La Dawn Duvall reads Maya Angelou's poem “Phenomenal Woman.” Series: "Lunch Poems Reading Series" [Humanities] [Arts and Music] [Show ID: 29005]

    Robin Robertson - Lunch Poems

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 2, 2015 52:11


    Robin Robertson is from the Northeast coast of Scotland. He has published five collections of poetry—most recently Hill of Doors—and received a number of accolades, including the Petrarch Prize, the E.M. Forster Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Cholmondeley Award, and all three Forward Prizes. Series: "Lunch Poems Reading Series" [Humanities] [Arts and Music] [Show ID: 29009]

    Lunch Poems: Joseph Defraine Greenwell Reads Alone by Maya Angelou

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 5, 2015 2:51


    UC Berkeley Associate Vice Chancellor and Dean of Students Joseph Defraine Greenwell reads Maya Angelou's poem “Alone.” Series: "Lunch Poems Reading Series" [Humanities] [Arts and Music] [Show ID: 29006]

    Lunch Poems: Carolyn Merchant reads The Lesson by David Iltis

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 9, 2014 4:18


    UC Berkeley Professor of Environmental History, Philosphy and Ethics Carolyn Merchant reads David Iltis' poem “The Lesson” Series: "Lunch Poems Reading Series" [Humanities] [Arts and Music] [Show ID: 29007]

    Frank O'Hara's Lunch Poems Turns 50: An Anniversary Celebration

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 8, 2014 24:45


    In partnership with City Lights Books, who first published Frank O'Hara's “Lunch Poems” 50 years ago, this special event features readings from a newly expanded edition that also includes communiqués by O'Hara pulled from the City Lights archive housed at the Bancroft Library at UC Berkeley. Participants include: Jayne Gregory, Robert Hass, Owen Hill, Elaine Katzenberger, Evan Klavon, Giovanni Singleton, Julianna Spahr, Joseph Bush and Matthew Zapruder. Series: "Lunch Poems Reading Series" [Humanities] [Arts and Music] [Show ID: 28889]

    Lunch Poems: 2014 Kick-Off

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 1, 2014 45:34


    Hosted by Robert Hass and University Librarian Thomas C. Leonard, this event features distinguished faculty and staff from a wide range of disciplines introducing and reading a favorite poem. This year's participants: La Dawn Duvall (Visitor & Parent Services), Associate Vice Chancellor and Dean of Students Joseph Defraine Greenwell, Steven Finacom (Capital Projects), Alex Mastrangeli (English), Steve Mendoza (University Library), Carolyn Merchant (Environmental Science, Policy, & Management), Associate University Librarian Erik Mitchell, Shannon L. Monroe (University Library), and Kimmen Sjölander (Bioengineering) Series: "Lunch Poems Reading Series" [Humanities] [Arts and Music] [Show ID: 28830]

    Lunch Poems: Kimmen Sjölander reads Keeping Quiet by Pablo Neruda

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 26, 2014 2:12


    UC Berkeley Bioengineering Professor Kimmen Sjölander reads “Keeping Quiet” by Pablo Neruda. Series: "Lunch Poems Reading Series" [Humanities] [Arts and Music] [Show ID: 29008]

    Rowan Ricardo Phillips - Lunch Poems

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 8, 2014 28:00


    Rowan Ricardo Phillips, award-winning poet, literary and art critic, and translator reads to an audience at UC Berkeley. His first collection of poems, “The Ground: Poems” was published in 2013. Series: "Lunch Poems Reading Series" [Humanities] [Arts and Music] [Show ID: 28137]

    Lunch Poems: 2014 Student Reading

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 11, 2014 28:51


    The annual student reading includes winners of the following prizes: Academy of American Poets, Cook, Rosenberg, and Yang, as well as students nominated by Berkeley's creative writing faculty, Lunch Poems volunteers, and representatives from student publications. Series: "Lunch Poems Reading Series" [Humanities] [Arts and Music] [Show ID: 28341]

    Lunch Poems: Margo Bennett (Excerpt)

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 28, 2014 3:50


    UC Berkeley Police Chief Margo Bennet reads “The Journey” by Mary Oliver. Series: "Lunch Poems Reading Series" [Arts and Music] [Show ID: 27812]

    Lunch Poems: Keith Gilless (Excerpt)

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 23, 2014 2:55


    UC Berkeley Dean & Professor of Forest Economics Keith Gilless reads "The Rhodora" by Ralph Waldo Emerson Series: "Lunch Poems Reading Series" [Arts and Music] [Show ID: 27815]

    Lunch Poems: Timothy Hampton (Excerpt)

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 18, 2014 3:50


    UC Berkeley professor Timothy Hampton reads the poem “Of All Works” by Bertolt Brecht. Series: "Lunch Poems Reading Series" [Arts and Music] [Show ID: 27818]

    Leonore Wilson - Lunch Poems

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 2, 2014 41:13


    Leonore Wilson is Poet Laureate of Napa Valley and author of “Western Solstice” published by Hiraeth Press. She has received fellowships from Villa Montalvo Center of the Arts and University of Utah. Her poems have appeared in Quarterly West, Madison Review, Third Coast, Unruly Catholic Women Writers Poets Against the War, and TRIVIA: Voices of Feminism. Series: "Lunch Poems Reading Series" [Humanities] [Arts and Music] [Show ID: 28051]

    Lunch Poems: Dylan Hendricks (Excerpt)

    Play Episode Listen Later May 5, 2014 2:50


    UC Berkeley's Dylan Hendricks reads “I Carry Your Heart With Me” by E. E. Cummings. Series: "Lunch Poems Reading Series" [Arts and Music] [Show ID: 27819]

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    Zubair Ahmed - Lunch Poems

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 28, 2014 27:34


    Zubair Ahmed was born and raised in Dhaka, Bangladesh. In 2005, his family won the Diversity Visa Lottery, which granted them the opportunity to immigrate to the US. During the year-and-a-half before moving, he became a professional video gamer and then moved to Duncanville, Texas where he finished high school. Ahmed now studies mechanical engineering and creative writing at Stanford University. He is a member of the Stanford Solar Car Team, president of the Tau Beta Pi Engineering Honors Society, and has recently delved into business and startups. City of Rivers, published by McSweeney's, is his highly praised debut collection of poems. Series: "Lunch Poems Reading Series" [Humanities] [Arts and Music] [Show ID: 27725]

    Cynthia Cruz - Lunch Poems

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 21, 2014 28:00


    Cynthia Cruz's poems have been published in the New Yorker, Paris Review, Boston Review, American Poetry Review, Kenyon Review and others. Her first collection of poems, RUIN, was published by Alice James Book and her second collection, “The Glimmering Room,” was published by Four Way Books in 2012. She has received fellowships from Yaddo and the MacDowell Colony as well as a Hodder Fellowship from Princeton University. Her third collection of poems, Wunderkammer, is from Four Way Books in 2014. She teaches at Sarah Lawrence College and lives in Brooklyn, New York. Series: "Lunch Poems Reading Series" [Humanities] [Arts and Music] [Show ID: 26024]

    Lunch Poems: Patricia Penn Hilden (Excerpt)

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 21, 2014 5:05


    UC Berkeley Professor Emerita Patricia Penn Hilden reads “Indian Boarding School: The Runaways” by Louise Erdrich [Arts and Music] [Show ID: 27820]

    Lunch Poems: Nicholas B. Dirks (Excerpt)

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 7, 2014 10:45


    UC Berkeley Chancellor Nicholas B. Dirks reads from Seamus Heaney's "Verses for a Fordham Commencement". Series: "Lunch Poems Reading Series" [Arts and Music] [Show ID: 27813]

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    Lunch Poems: Keith P. Feldman (Excerpt)

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 7, 2014 5:55


    UC Berkeley assistant professor Keith P. Feldman reads from Mahmoud Darwish's “Memory for Forgetfulness”. Series: "Lunch Poems Reading Series" [Arts and Music] [Show ID: 27814]

    Linda Gregerson - Lunch Poems

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 7, 2014 29:41


    Linda Gregerson is the author of five books of poetry, most recently The Selvage (2012). Her many honors include awards from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Guggenheim, Rockefeller, and Mellon Foundations, the Kingsley Tufts poetry endowment. Her third book, Waterborne, was a finalist for the National Book Award. Gregerson is Caroline Walker Bynum Distinguished University Professor at the University of Michigan. She reads to an audience at UC Berkeley. Series: "Lunch Poems Reading Series" [Humanities] [Arts and Music] [Show ID: 27967]

    Lunch Poems: Maria Mavroudi (Excerpt)

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 18, 2014 3:52


    UC Berkeley's Maria Mavroudi reads the poem “Bouzouki” by A. E. Stallings. Series: "Lunch Poems Reading Series" [Arts and Music] [Show ID: 27821]

    Lunch Poems: Jane Youn (Excerpt)

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 3, 2014 3:38


    UC Berkeley's Jane Youn reads the poem “The Fish” by Elizabeth Bishop. [Arts and Music] [Show ID: 27823]

    Lunch Poems: C.S. Giscombe (Excerpt)

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 5, 2014 2:45


    Award winning writer and poet C. S. Giscombe reads a poem before an audience at UC Berkeley, where he also teaches English. Series: "Lunch Poems Reading Series" [Arts and Music] [Show ID: 25625]

    Zeyar Lynn - Lunch Poems

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 27, 2014 58:30


    This reading is a special event celebrating the first anthology of Burmese poetry in English translation in more than fifty years. At a time of political transformation in Myanmar, Zeyar Lynn, poet, essayist, and translator presents his work from “Bones Will Crow: 15 Contemporary Burmese Poets.” Lynn is widely regarded as the most influential living poet in Myanmar and a translator of many Western poets, including Sylvia Plath, John Ashbery, and Charles Bernstein. Series: "Lunch Poems Reading Series" [Humanities] [Arts and Music] [Show ID: 25925]

    Lunch Poems: 2013 Kick-Off

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 20, 2014 47:40


    Hosted by Robert Hass and University Librarian Thomas C. Leonard, this event features distinguished faculty and staff from a wide range of disciplines introducing and reading a favorite poem. This year's participants: Police Chief Margo Bennett, Chancellor Nicholas B. Dirks, Keith P. Feldman (Ethnic Studies), Dean Keith Gilless (College of Natural Resources), Alexander Givental (Mathematics), Timothy Hampton (Comparative Literature), Associate Director of Administration Dylan Hendricks, Patricia Penn Hilden (Native American History & Comparative Ethnic Studies), Maria Mavroudi (Byzantine History & Classics), Water Quality Program Manager Tim Pine (Office of Environment, Health & Safety), and Financial Analyst Jane Youn (English) Series: "Lunch Poems Reading Series" [Humanities] [Arts and Music] [Show ID: 25863]

    California's Poet Laureate Juan Felipe Herrera

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 18, 2013 21:33


    Juan Felipe Herrera presents recent works before attendees of the Global Food Systems Forum and ANR Statewide Conference at Ontario, California. Series: "University of California Division of Agriculture and Natural Resources" [Humanities] [Arts and Music] [Show ID: 25742]

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