Poetry Clips of the Week: Lucia Berlin's 'A Manual for Cleaning Women'

Thursday, October 29, 2015

These video clips are the part of a series highlighting recent readings held by SF State’s Poetry Center and American Poetry Archives. Visit this website regularly for fresh poetic content.

 

August Kleinzahler reads from Lucia Berlin’s story “Point of View,” from A Manual for Cleaning Women: Selected Stories, edited by Stephen Emerson (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2015), at the Maude Fife Room, Wheeler Hall, University of California, Berkeley, on October 7, 2015. The full program featured Gloria Frym, Mimi Pond, Kleinzahler and Stephen Emerson, and was sponsored by The Poetry Center and the UC Berkeley English Department.

 

 

Gloria Frym reads from Lucia Berlin’s story “Sex Appeal,” from A Manual for Cleaning Women: Selected Stories, edited by Stephen Emerson (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2015), at the Maude Fife Room, Wheeler Hall, University of California, Berkeley, on October 7, 2015. The full program featured Frym, Mimi Pond, August Kleinzahler and Stephen Emerson, and was sponsored by The Poetry Center and the UC Berkeley English Department.

 

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