The quarantine ’20s: A month-by-month collection of poetry
Gisselle Reyes/Staff
From life before quarantine to the tumultuous election, these poems provide a glimpse of the extraordinary events we’ve experienced throughout this past year.
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san andreas: A poem
Tonight is a beautiful night to open old wounds. Re-examine the scars that have long since healed — barely visible, but still there, old haunts. They permeate like fault lines, quiet and unassuming until they’re not. Until one wrong move, one shift of the tectonic plates deep inside you, shakes
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Arts & Entertainment: Generations of art in Berkeley
Here is a collection of features highlighting the voices of different Berkeley community members involved in the arts: an UC Berkeley alumna, a faculty member and a student.
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Angel Island Immigration Center poems: A cry for freedom and equality that echoes in the shadows of modern America
Angel Island Immigration Station was a immigration facility that operated from 1910 to 1940. The island sits in the San Francisco Bay, near Alcatraz Island and the Golden Gate Bridge. Some 175,000 Chinese immigrants were detained in the facility during the time in which it was fully operational.
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Locket-heart: A collection of poems
Diving head first into a heartache / Advil cannot fix.
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To write you down
Reading Life Closely
Inexperienced in the art of casual dating, I did not land gracefully. Instead I tucked myself away and wrote poems.
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A poet in motion
It was like any other poetry reading — Robert Hass had attended hundreds at this point. But after he finished reciting poems from a recent book, someone from the audience approached him and pointed out to the Pulitzer Prize winner something that had never crossed his mind. All the poems
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Strong coffee & bad poems
Champagne Problems
Please sir, can I have some more?” Oliver Twist was just a small, blonde, English orphan with an empty metal bowl and a big dream. He ran out of gruel. He wanted more. So do I, and so, I postulate, do you. Allow me to explain. Is it Thursday already?
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