UCTV Podcasts Presents: Poetry, Authors and Books

Both Dickens’s Fagin and Shakespeare’s Shylock are portrayed as the stereotype grotesque and villainous Jew. Join Michael Shapiro from the University of Illinois to explore what these characters and their creators have in common. [Humanities] [Show ID: 12411]

“A German Childhood -- An American Life” is the topic of this talk by the wife of former New Jersey Senator Bill Bradley. Ernestine Bradley recounts her years in Nazi Germany and reads from her memoir, The Way Home, and takes audience questions in this event sponsored by the Osher Institute for Lifelong Learning at UC San Diego. Series: Osher UCSD Distinguished Lecture Series [Public Affairs] [Show ID: 13070]

A prominent figure in California’s poetry scene for decades, Joanne Kyger writes poetry influenced by her practice of Zen Buddhism and her ties to the poets of Black Mountain, the San Francisco Renaissance, and the Beat Generation. Series: Lunch Poems Reading Series [Humanities] [Show ID: 11962]

Iraqi poet Dunya Mikhail immigrated to the United States in 1996 after increasing harassment over her poetry, which confronts war and exile with subversive depictions of suffering. In 2001 she was awarded the UN Human Rights Award for Freedom of Writing. Series: Lunch Poems Reading Series [Humanities] [Show ID: 11960]

“A German Childhood -- An American Life” is the topic of this talk by the wife of former New Jersey Senator Bill Bradley. Ernestine Bradley recounts her years in Nazi Germany and reads from her memoir, The Way Home, in this event sponsored by the Osher Institute for Lifelong Learning at UC San Diego. Series: Osher UCSD Distinguished Lecture Series [Public Affairs] [Show ID: 12617]

Will Alexander has created a contemporary alchemy of surrealist vision in his own electric incandescent language. Coined the Césaire of America, his poetry is full of imagistic and intelligent unraveling. Series: Lunch Poems Reading Series [Humanities] [Show ID: 11958]

Author, poet, pastor and professor Eugene Peterson charms his audience as he recalls his effort to translate the Bible into The Message, an interpretation geared for modern readers. The book has such wide appeal that U2’s Bono began quoting from it at concerts. But when told of this, Peterson’s response was “Who is Bono?” Peterson is joined host Dean Nelson in Part 2 of the 2007 Writers Symposium by the Sea, sponsored by Point Loma Nazarene University. Series: Writer's Symposium By The Sea [Public Affairs] [Humanities] [Show ID: 12227]

Best-selling author Anne Lamott returns to San Diego with more hilarious tales of her life as a mother, daughter and writer who is drawn to the struggles of imperfect characters. The humor of host Dean Nelson puts the normally reclusive Lamott at ease and the two keep the audience laughing throughout this edition of the 2007 Writer’s Symposium by the Sea, sponsored by Point Loma Nazarene University. Series: Writer's Symposium By The Sea [Public Affairs] [Humanities] [Show ID: 12220]

Pulitzer Prize-winning poet and recent US poet laureate Ted Kooser gives a public reading and answer questions on his art during a visit to UC Davis. [Humanities]

Born in Beijing, China, and raised in Massachusetts, Mei-mei Berssenbrugge molds language with seemingly effortless beauty and grace that invites the reader on a journey between worlds. She has published three books of poetry. Her selected poems, "I Love Artists," is forthcoming from UC Press (April, 2006). Tune is as she reads a selection of her poems before a live audience at UC Berkeley. Series: Lunch Poems Reading Series [Humanities]

The surprising and candid Jane Fonda addresses an audience at UC Santa Barbara. Tune in for her insights into her remarkable life - an Academy Award-winning actress, controversial activist, aerobics instructor and generous philanthropist. Series: Voices [Humanities]

Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer of Martin Luther King, Jr.,Taylor Branch explores America in the King years, 1965-68. Presented by the Walter H. Capps Center at UCSB. Series: Walter H. Capps Center Series [Public Affairs] [Humanities]