http://holloway.english.berkeley.edu/ JEAN DAY has published seven books of poetry, including Enthusiasm: Odes & Otium and the chapbook Daydream (The Eponym). Poems from her current project, Late Human, have been published in Try and Cambridge Literary Review, and recent work has appeared in The Sienese Shredder, Zoland Poetry, Mir (in French), and other journals.
We begin our new series with a prolonged look, in many detail images, at one of the great landscapes of the Yuan period, Wang Meng’s “Dwelling in the Qingbian Mountains,” painted in 1366. I attempt to set it in both art-historical and historical contexts, and include visual treatments of other Wang Meng paintings as comparisons.
Luis Rodriguez has published eight books of poetry, memoir, and children's literature. His poetry, including Trochemoche, has won a Poetry Center Book Award, a PEN Josephine Miles Literary Award, and Foreword magazine's Silver Book Award. He is also widely known for his memoir of gang life, Always Running: La Vida Loca, Gang Days in L.A., and for founding and directing Tia Chucha Press. [events] [artshumanities] [lunchpoems] Credits: producer:UC Berkeley Educational Technology Services