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A prominent figure in the wide-open poetry movement of the 50s, Ferlinghetti gave voice to a generation that changed the face of poetry forever. Challenging the elite's definition of art and the artist's role, Ferlinghetti founded City Lights Bookstore, providing a meeting place for writers, artists, and intellectuals for over a half century. Ferlinghetti's A Coney Island of the Mind continues to be the most popular poetry book in the United States. His most recent work, Americus Book I was published by New Directions in 2004. Lunch Poems: Lawrence Ferlinghetti 2006 Lunch Poems is a monthly poetry reading held on the UC Berkeley campus. This reading features Lawrence Ferlinghetti. [events]... Lunch Poems:...
How sweet it is to love someone...How right it is to care,,, John Denver...
By John Denver and The Muppets Poems, Prayers...
Revolutionary poet, playwright, and activist Amiri Baraka is recognized as the founder of the Black Arts Movement, a literary period that began in Harlem in the 1960s and forever changed the look, sound, and feel of American poetry. Baraka (formerly LeRoi Jones) helped to empower African American artists to establish publishing houses, journals, and university ethnic studies programs. His books continue to spark intense political and aesthetic controversy while receiving tremendous critical acclaim. Lunch Poems -...
After hosting Lunch Poems for eight years, Robert Hass has finally been prevailed upon to read his own poems in the series. Former Poet Laureate of the U.S., Hass is a UC Berkeley professor who has made important contributions in poetry, criticism, and translation. His books of poetry are Sun Under Wood, Human Wishes, Praise, and Field Guide, the latter winner of the Yale Younger Poets Award. His critical essays are assembled in Twentieth Century Pleasures, and the poets he has translated include Czeslaw Milosz, Tomas Tranströmer, and masters of Japanese haiku. Series: Lunch Poems:...
Madonna & Deepak Chopra. A Gift of Love, the love poems of Rumi. In Search of God & becoming one with all. Love poems of...
Li-Young Lee's collections of poems include The City in Which I Love You and Book of My Nights. In his poetry he explores a range of subjects, from his family's immigrant experiences to the haunting meditations of his most recent work. Lunch Poems -...
Robin Blaser emerged from the Berkeley Renaissance of the 1940s and '50s along with Jack Spicer and Robert Duncan, and later established himself as one of Canada's foremost experimental poets. In addition to numerous works of poetry, criticism, and translation, Blaser has also penned an English and Latin opera libretto entitled The Last Supper in collaboration with Sir Harrison Birtwistle. Lunch Poems -...
Hosted by Robert Hass and university librarian Thomas Leonard, the kickoff features distinguished faculty and staff from a wide range of disciplines introducing and reading a favorite poem. This year's participants: Aftab Ahmad (South & Southeast Asian Studies), Ben Braun (Men's Basketball), Janet Broughton (Dean of Letters & Science, Philosophy), Jennifer Dorner (Library), E. Bond Francisco (Physical Plant), Cecil Giscombe (English), Lucia Jacobs (Psychology), Kathleen McCarthy (Classics and Comparative Literature), Paul Parish (Faculty Club), Kay Richards (East Asian Languages and Cultures, Center for Korean Studies).Support for this series is provided by Mrs. William Main, the Library, The Morrison Library Fund, the dean's office of the College of Letters and Sciences, and the Townsend Center for the Humanities. These events are also partially supported by Poets & Writers, Inc. through a grant it has received from The James Irvine Foundation.Additional information is available at lunchpoems.berkeley.edu. Lunch Poems -...
Words to this song are a compilation of poems by great Polish poet, Krzysztof Kamil Baczyński (that's the one appearing in 2:09), who participated in Warsaw Uprising, and died 4th August 1944.And here's my totally amateurish translation of this song, I hope there are not that many mistakes and it's rather comprehensible. But remember, this is poetry, it's impossible to transfer everything ideally ;)(every comment would be welcomed;)War poemsI will open you a golden heavenin which - white thread of silence,like a huge nut of sounds,which will crack to liveon green leaflets,on warble of lakes, on playing of twilighttill the birdlike whistle showsthe milky core.only take out from my eyes painful glass -- picture of days,which's rolling the white skullsthrough the burning meads of blood.only change handicap time,cover graves with coat of river,wipe the battle dust of hairthe black dustof wrathful days.who will give me back my reverieand this shadow, which's walked away behind you?oh, those days, growling like animals,like plants - they are younger and youngerand shortly now - so little,standing on the nutshell,we will drift against the seasons,like against the water vainsand verging alternately to waterwe will drift carelessly into oblivion,and only our shadows, left on the earth,will cryI'll transform for you rough groundinto fluent flight of soft sow-thistles,I'll lead shadows, tighting like a cat,out from things.twinkling with the pelage, they will furl everythinginto colors of the storms, into hearts of leafs,into grey tangle of rainsonly take out from my eyes painful glass -- picture of days,which is rolling the white skullsthrough the burning meads of blood.only change handicap time,cover graves with coat of river,wipe the battle dust of hairthe black dustof wrathful daysWith long, curling ribbon, warm voice is cooling in the air,till it attains him in dusk, and he will hear a whisper near his mouth'Darling' - the song hums and coils his head, ringslike trail of soft hair, and lilies smells from it so strong,that he, leaning over the death, he locks his fingers on gun,and stands up, and still, black of the battle dust, he still feelsviolin playing in him silently, so he walks carefully, slowly,like on the thread of light, through soughing sea of dusk,and the softness of white clouds is closer and closertill the space completes, and he feels the soft voicestanding within his grasp, in terrific silence'Darling' - the song soughs, and so then arms will hugForest grows in the night. Abyss opensextreme mouth, it absorbs and sucks.They passed, they mawed; only reek is squeezing,and high scream in mist, in mistonly take out from my eyes painful glass -- picture of days,which is rolling the white skullsthrough the burning meads of blood.only change handicap time,cover graves with coat of river,wipe the battle dust of hairthe black dustof wrathful days(wszelkie uwagi do tłumaczenia mile widziane;) Ewa Demarczyk -...
Born in Odessa, Ilya Kaminsky immigrated to the United States in 1993 when his family was granted asylum by the American government. Polish poet Adam Zagajewski says of Kaminsky, Lunch Poems -...
Maxine Hong Kingston burst on the literary scene in 1976 with her book, Lunch Poems:...
John Denver and The Muppets sing Poems Prayers and Promises John Denver and...
Jessica Fisher's Frail-Craft was the winner of the prestigious 2006 Yale Series of Younger Poets competition. She is a doctoral candidate in English at U.C. Berkeley and is coeditor, with Robert Hass, of The Addison Street Anthology, which chronicles Berkeley's rich poetic history.Support for this series is provided by Mrs. William Main, the Library, The Morrison Library Fund, the dean's office of the College of Letters and Sciences, and the Townsend Center for the Humanities. These events are also partially supported by Poets & Writers, Inc. through a grant it has received from The James Irvine Foundation.http://lunchpoems.berkeley.edu Lunch Poems -...
Chopper reads some very 'interesting' Xmas poems. Mark "CHOPPER"...
Rich in its landscapes and its search for personal discovery, John Matthias' poetry encompasses vast territories of history and culture. Robert Duncan once called Matthias Lunch Poems -...
Billy Collins, former US Poet Laureate and one of America's best-selling poets, reads his poem The Best Cigarette
World-renowned poet Diane di Prima, one of the preeminent writers to emerge from the Beat generation, wrote in Manhattan for many years before relocating to San Francisco, where she has been for nearly four decades. In addition to raising five children, di Prima has studied photography, collage, Zen and Tibetan Buddhism, Sanskrit, and alchemy, all of which inform her intensely lyrical writing. Her 43 books of poetry and prose have been translated into over twenty languages.http://www.lunchpoems.berkeley.edu Lunch Poems -...
Tracy K. Smith received degrees in English and creative writing from Harvard and Columbia, and was a Wallace Stegner Fellow in poetry at Stanford. Her first book, The Body's Question, was awarded the 2002 Cave Canem Poetry Prize, and her most recent collection, Duende: Poems, received the James Laughlin Award from the Academy of American Poets. She teaches creative writing at Princeton.Recorded December 4, 2008http://lunchpoems.berkeley.edu/ Lunch Poems -...
(Singer ustad Baryalai samadi) The beautiful...
Hosted by Robert Hass and university librarian Thomas C. Leonard, the kickoff features distinguished faculty and staff from a wide range of disciplines introducing and reading a favorite poem.http://lunchpoems.berkeley.edu Lunch Poems...
Losing a child is devastating.Our heart goes out to John Travolta and his family for their recent loss of their Son Jett. This Video Poem is a tribute to the Travolta Family and everyone who has suffered such sorrow. Funeral Poems For...
Three poems from the former US Poet Laureate Billy Collins. Hosted by the Aspen Institute, the 2007 Aspen Ideas Festival, http://www.aifestival.org, offers its participants a variety of programs, tutorials, seminars, and discussion events that together charged the town of Aspen with vibrant intellectual exchange. Some of the most inspired and provocative thinkers, writers, artists, business people, teachers and other leaders drawn from myriad fields and from across the country and around the world all gathered in a single place—to teach, speak, lead, question, and answer. Three Poems by...

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