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Berkeley Lunch Poems: Mary Jo Bang

March 4, 2021 @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm PST

Free
Mary Jo Bang

Berkeley Lunch Poems

A noontime poetry reading series

Readings will take place remotely for the 2020-2021 academic year. Zoom links will be available approximately two weeks before the event. All readings will be recorded and posted to youtube. To keep up to date, please join our list by emailing poems@library.berkeley.edu.

Link for all readings: https://berkeley.zoom.us/j/96370640480

Mary Jo Bang

Mary Jo Bang is the author of eight books of poems—including A Doll for ThrowingLouise in LoveThe Last Two Seconds, and Elegy, which received the National Book Critics Circle Award. Her translation of Dante’s Inferno, illustrated by Henrik Drescher, was published by Graywolf Press in 2012. Her translation of Purgatorio is forthcoming from Graywolf in July 2021. She has received a Hodder Fellowship from Princeton University, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and a Berlin Prize Fellowship. She teaches creative writing at Washington University in St. Louis.

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Date:
March 4, 2021
Time:
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm PST
Cost:
Free
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https://lunchpoems.berkeley.edu/

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Lunch Poems
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