The Poetry Center presents poet and scholar Chris Nealon, delivering the 36th annual George Oppen Memorial Lecture. Nealon's talk, titled "George Oppen and the Future," ranges across the span of Oppen's poetry, with particular attention devoted to sonic and linguistic elements of the poems, in relation to particulars of Oppen's politics as discernible in the poetry. Brandon Brown introduces Nealon, at the East Bay Media Center, in downtown Berkeley. The George Oppen Memorial Lecture is supported by the Dorothy A. Fowler Trust.