Long before the English language began, Mayans were writing history and literature in their own script. Most ancient Mayan books were burned in the 16th century, but Mayan authors continued to write, …
Read More >“In this Autobiography I shall keep in mind that I am speaking from the grave….I speak from the grave rather than with my living tongue, for good reason: I can speak thence …
Read More >Richard O. Moore, author of Writing the Silences, read his work at UC Berkeley’s Lunch Poems on December 3. Brenda Hillman, poet and co-editor of Writing the Silences, introduced the reading. After …
Read More >Poet and UC Press author Richard O. Moore will read from his forthcoming collection, Writing the Silences, at noon this Thursday, December 3, as part of the Lunch Poems Noontime Poetry Reading …
Read More >Keith Waldrop was featured on the PBS Online NewsHour’s Art Beat blog this week. As part of Art Beat’s Weekly Poems series, Waldrop reads “Soft Hail” and “Plurality of Worlds”, both from …
Read More >Keith Waldrop’s Transcendental Studies: A Trilogy is the winner of the 2009 National Book Award in Poetry. “I think that one should take it as one direction that poetry can go, there …
Read More >UPDATE: Transcendental Studies is the winner of the 2009 National Book Award in Poetry. Transcendental Studies is a 2009 National Book Award finalist in poetry. This compelling selection of recent work by …
Read More >Novelist, emergency room doctor, essayist, poet — Frank Huyler is singular among writers. His second novel, Right of Thirst, was released to rave reviews this spring. UC Press has just published a …
Read More >The forthcoming UC Press poetry volume Forest of Eyes, a selection of poems by one of Japan’s most important modern poets, Tada Chimako, translated by Jeffrey Angles, was recently awarded the 2009 …
Read More >As announced last week, University of California Press author Harryette Mullen received the 2009 Academy Fellowship from the Academy of American Poets, one of the most distinguished awards in poetry in the …
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