MORRISON LIBRARY - UC BERKELEY
FREE TO ATTEND.
Please join us at UC Berkeley's Morrison Library at 12:10pm on Thursday, November 2nd for Lunch Poems, Berkeley’s storied noontime poetry series. Poet and essayist Kay Gabriel will be reading this month. Pegasus Books will be the bookseller for this event.
Kay Gabriel is a poet and essayist. Her research focuses on contemporary anglophone poetry and poetics, trans studies, tragedy, adaptation, classical reception, and translation studies. She has taught at Princeton University, where she received her doctorate in classics, the Prison Teaching Initiative, the Bard Microcollege at Brooklyn Public Library, Naropa University, and the Poetry Project at St. Mark’s Church. With Andrea Abi-Karam, she co-edited We Want It All: An Anthology of Radical Trans Poetics, which was nominated for the Lambda Literary and Publishing Triangle awards. She is the author of the collections Kissing Other People or the House of Fame and A Queen in Bucks County, both published by Nightboat Books.
Lunch Poems will be held in person for the 2023-24 season in Morrison Library. The series is free and open to all audiences.
- All readings are from 12:10 to 12:50 p.m.
- Event contact: poems@library.berkeley.edu
