• The Berkeley Poetry Conference was an event in which individuals presented their views and poems in seminars, lectures, individual readings, and group...
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    to Bobbie. Creeley read at the 1963 Vancouver Poetry Festival and at the 1965 Berkeley Poetry Conference. Afterward, he wandered about a bit before settling...
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    University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, or California) is a public land-grant research university in Berkeley, California, United States...
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    upcoming Berkeley Poetry Conference," as well as a petition for Place's removal from the 2016 Association of Writers & Writing Programs (AWP) conference subcommittee...
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  • participated in The Berkeley Poetry Conference organized by Richard Baker, Program Coordinator, University of California Berkeley, Liberal Arts Extension...
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  • John Wieners (section Poetry)
    1965, after traveling with Olson to the Spoleto Festival and the Berkeley Poetry Conference, he enrolled in the Graduate Program at SUNY Buffalo. He worked...
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    with the Tibetan Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche. While attending the Berkeley Poetry Conference in 1965, Waldman, with poet Lewis Warsh, was inspired to found...
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  • Barry MacSweeney (category British Poetry Revival)
    MacSweeney organised the Sparty Lea Poetry Festival in Easter 1967. Influenced in part by the Berkeley Poetry Conference of 1965, around two-dozen poets gathered...
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    Sinclair was one of the "New Poets" who read at the seminal Berkeley Poetry Conference in July 1965. In April 1967, he founded the Ann Arbor Sun, a biweekly...
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  • two poets west, first to the Vancouver Poetry Conference of 1963, and then to the Berkeley Poetry Conference of 1964. After moving to New York City in...
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    after divorcing Snyder. The same year, she participated in the Berkeley Poetry Conference, meeting poets Charles Olson and Ted Berrigan. She edited an edition...
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  • Warren Tallman (category Poetry instructors)
    held another poetry conference in Berkeley, California. Tallman was sometimes criticized for turning the Vancouver poetry circle into a California branch...
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    debut poetry collection, Look, was a finalist for the 2016 National Book Award. She is currently an Assistant Professor of English at UC Berkeley. Sharif...
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  • supported. In 1965, Körte was allowed to attend the influential Berkeley Poetry Conference where she was minor sensation due to her wearing of her Dominican...
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    Javier Zamora (category University of California, Berkeley alumni)
    Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowship from the Poetry Foundation. Zamora has received fellowships from the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, CantoMundo, Colgate...
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  • University of California, Berkeley, University of California, San Diego, University of Maine, the Iowa Writers' Workshop). Language poetry also developed affiliations...
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    now contain some two hundred titles. In 1965, he attended the Berkeley Poetry Conference, what John Bennett, in 'Air Guitar' (an Ellensburg Daily Record...
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  • Robert Duncan (poet) (category University of California, Berkeley alumni)
    returned to Berkeley to study Medieval and Renaissance literature and cultivated a reputation as a shamanistic figure in San Francisco poetry and artistic...
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  • Lewis Warsh (section Poetry)
    Joanne Kyger, in 1965. In the summer of 1965 he attended The Berkeley Poetry Conference where he met Anne Waldman at Robert Duncan’s reading. The two...
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  • Gathering Writer Retreats: My Experience at Squaw Valley The Writers' Guide: UC Berkeley Alumni Association profile of Oakley Hall and the conference...
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  • Hen and Heledd Ford, P. K. (1974). The poetry of Llywarch Hen : introduction, text and translation. Berkeley: University of California Press. ISBN 0-520-02601-2...
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    California at Berkeley, or Faculty Club at UC Berkeley, is a private members' club located on the University of California, Berkeley campus in Berkeley, California...
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    ISBN 975-10-2006-9, p. 58 Grace Martin Smith. The Poetry of Yūnus Emre, A Turkish Sufi Poet. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press,...
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    poet. First, Palmer attended the Vancouver Poetry Conference in 1963. This July–August 1963 Poetry Conference in Vancouver, British Columbia spanned three...
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    Czesław Miłosz (category University of California, Berkeley College of Letters and Science faculty)
    States, where he became a professor at the University of California, Berkeley. His poetry—particularly about his wartime experience—and his appraisal of Stalinism...
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    Poetry groups and movements or schools may be self-identified by the poets that form them or defined by critics who see unifying characteristics of a body...
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    Fred Moten (category University of California, Berkeley alumni)
    University of California, Berkeley. Moten makes considerable intellectual contributions to the discourses of black studies, poetry and poetics, critical race...
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  • Robin Blaser (category Writers from Berkeley, California)
    Blaser's 70th birthday, a conference was held in Vancouver to pay tribute to his contribution to Canadian poetry. The conference, known as the "Recovery...
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  • premodern India. Berkeley: University of California Press. pp. 3, 16, 19, 126. ISBN 9780520932029. OCLC 70701869. Anglophone poetry in colonial India...
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  • Robert Hass (category Pulitzer Prize for Poetry winners)
    won the 2007 National Book Award and shared the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for the collection Time and Materials: Poems 1997–2005. In 2014 he was awarded...
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