Chris Nealon: December 10, 2021

The Poetry Center presents poets Chris Nealon, visiting the Bay Area from Washington, D.C., on a program shared with Stephanie Young, appearing from Oakland. Nealon, in addition to this reading from his poetry, delivers The Poetry Center's annual George Oppen Memorial Lecture the following evening. Both events take place at the East Bay Media Center, in downtown Berkeley. The George Oppen Memorial Lecture, with these adjacent readings, is supported by the Dorothy A. Fowler Trust. 

Note: At Stephanie Young's request, her reading was not recorded.

Publisher
DocFilm Institute
Location
East Bay Media Center, Berkeley
Date
2021-12-10
Event Run Time
00:32:36
Contributors
Steve Dickison
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Chris Nealon (00:30:34)

Chris Nealon reads from an unpublished manuscript, titled All About You. Nealon begins with an epigraph by George Stanley, and proceeds with a poem titled "I'm In." He reads "This is the work of memory...," "The poem about the body...," "God, church, I grew up in this sanctuary....," Next is the title sequence, "All About You." The last poem he reads is titled "End to End."

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