East Bay poet Ari Banias reads from book, ‘Anybody,’ plus new work at Lunch Poems
On Feb. 7, 2019, Ari Banias, author of Anybody, read his poetry at Lunch Poems, a poetry reading series at UC Berkeley
February 25, 2019
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East Bay poet Ari Banias, author of Anybody, read his work at Lunch Poems on Feb. 7, 2019. (Photo courtesy of Ari Banias)
Ari Banias is the author of Anybody (2016), which was named a finalist for the Kate Tufts Discovery Award and the PEN Center USA Literary Award. His poems have appeared in various journals, in Troubling The Line: Trans and Genderqueer Poetry and Poetics and as part of the MOTHA exhibition, Trans Hirstory in 99 Objects.
Banias is the recipient of fellowships from the New York Foundation for the Arts, the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing, and Stanford University’s Wallace Stegner program. He lives in Berkeley, teaches poetry and works with small press books.
On Feb. 7, 2019, Banias read his poetry — from Anybody and some new work — at Lunch Poems, an ongoing poetry reading series at UC Berkeley that began in 2014. All readings happen from 12:10 to 12:50 p.m. on the first Thursday of the month in Morrison Library in Doe Library. Admission is free.
This talk was recorded by UC Berkeley’s Educational Technology Services. Watch the video.