FALL 2018
September 20: Roberto Harrisonwith Rebecca Nieto
September 26: Sara Nicholson
October 2: Evie Shockley (with Jared Robinson)
October 18: Tom Pickard (with Leo Dunsker)
SPRING 2018
February 1:Mónica de la Torre(with Lo Ferris)
February 21:Alan Felsenthal(with Mary Wilson)
February 28:Tongo Eisen-Martin(with Ismail Muhammad)
FALL 2017
August 31:Annual Faculty Reading(featuring Cecil Giscombe, Robert Hass, Lyn Hejinian, Geoffrey G. O’Brien, John Shoptaw, and giovanni singleton)
September 14:giovanni singleton(Holloway Lecturer in Poetry and Poetics)
October 11:Renee Gladman(with Nicole Trigg)
November 8:Farid Matuk(with Jessica Laser)
SPRING 2017
February 15:: Simone White (with Laura Ritland) & Simone White’s talk, “Endings,” for the Mixed Blood Project
FALL 2016
September 7:: Annual Faculty Reading(With C.S. Giscombe, Robert Hass, Lyn Hejinian, Geoffrey G. O’Brien, John Shoptaw, and Mary Szybist)
September 22:: Mary Szybist(Visiting Holloway Poet)
September 29::George Stanleywith Mary Mussman
October 19::Tonya M. Fosterwith Simona Schneider
October 27::Gary Snyder
November 9::Nathaniel Mackey, “Breath and Precarity”(The Leslie Scalapino Lecture in Innovative Poetics)
SPRING 2016
April 13::Frank Wilderson with Mary Wilson
April 6:: Anna Moschovakis (Visiting Holloway Poet)
February 10:: Bernadette Mayer with Christian Nagler
FALL 2015
November 11:: Patrick Wolff & John Wiitala Duo &Rae Armantrout reading with Rachel Beck
October 22:: Larry Ochs – Don Robinson Duo&Srikanth Reddy with Ismail Muhammad
October 22:: Srikanth Reddy, Bagley Wright Lecture,“The O of Wonder: A Syzygy”
October 5:: Ronaldo V. Wilson: “Drawing: The Body At Play, The Mind Holding Fat.” (Talk for Mixed Blood Project)
October 5:: Positive Knowledge & Ronaldo V. Wilson performing with Aura Maru
September 15:: Annual Faculty Reading(with C.S. Giscombe, Robert Hass, Lyn Hejinian, Geoffrey G. O’Brien, and John Shoptaw)
SPRING 2015
March 18th :: Fred Moten with Daniel Benjamin(Holloway Reading)
March 18th :: Fred Moten, “Blackness and Poetry.”A talk for the Mixed Blood Project.
February 18th ::Claudia Rankine with Joshua Adam Anderson
April 8th :: Fanny Howe with David Vandeloo
April 24th :: Lisa Robertson: The Leslie Scalapino Lecture in Innovative Poetics. “A Form of Sentences: Speaking with the Dead or Grammar is Not Abstract”
FALL 2014
November 20th :: Tennessee Reed(with Ryan Ikeda)
November 4th ::Clark Coolidge(with Alek Jeziorek)
October 23rd ::C.D. Wright(with Christopher Miller)
September 18th ::Ed Roberson(Visiting Holloway Poet)
September 4th ::Annual Faculty Reading(with C.S. Giscombe, Robert Hass, Lyn Hejinian, Geoffrey G. O’Brien, Ed Roberson, and John Shoptaw)
SPRING 2014
May 1st ::Anne Boyer with Adam Ahmed
April 8th ::Jorie Graham with Rachel Trocchio
March 5th ::Rachel Blau DuPlessis with Hannah Ehrlinspiel
February 26th ::Marianne Morris with Holly Jackson
February 20th ::Amiri Baraka Tribute
FALL 2013
November 21st ::Tyrone Williams with Lise Gaston
October 17th ::Yusef Komunyakaa with Evan Klavon
October 10th ::Alice Notley with Simona Schneider
September 26th ::Keston Sutherland (Visiting Holloway Poet)
September 12th ::Annual Faculty Reading
SPRING 2013
April 17, 2013 ::Anne Carson with Gillian Osborne
February 19, 2013 ::Major Jackson with Allison Neale
January 29, 2013 ::Dawn Lundy Martin with Hugo Garcia Manriquez
FALL 2012
November 15, 2012 ::Keston Sutherland & John Wilkinson
November 13, 2012 ::Tony Lopez with Daniel Benjamin
October 30, 2012 ::W. N. Herbert with Adrian Acu
October 11, 2012 ::Catherine Walsh (Holloway Lecturer in the Practice of Poetry)
October 3, 2012 ::Eavan Boland with Mary Wilson
September 20, 2012 ::David Marriott with Yosefa Raz
September 4, 2012 ::Annual Faculty Reading
To see videos of previous readings, visit the “UC Berkeley Events” channel on YouTube or search the names of individual readers.