Poetry and the Senses Program Launch + Celebration With Readings by Indira Allegra, Chiyuma Elliott, and Lyn Hejinian Tuesday, February 4, 2020 5:30 – 7:00pm:…
Shortly after winning the 2013 National Book Award for her second collection of poems, Incarnadine, Portland’s Mary Szybist told the Paris Review that she started…
There was no sign outside of Wheeler Hall, but the Colloquium Room was packed, with standing room only (it seats 150). People had turned out…
I took a futuristic train out of town and ended up on the steps of Wheeler Hall, built in 1917. Inside, I ran into a…
“We always have to defend the imagination against idiots.” In the cramped auditorium of UC Berkeley’s Townsend Center for the Humanities, Ursula K. Le Guin sat…
When I first met Major Jackson, it was at an event that I like to call, with the dishonesty of hindsight, the sycophantic shitshow sonnet. We…
I was gliding on a silver monorail through some worn-out neighborhoods in the East Bay. It was like a monolithic form of surveillance. I was…