February 9, 2023
Audiovisual items within the UC San Diego Library’s Archive for New Poetry (ANP) collection will be digitized and preserved thanks to a $250,000 grant awarded to the organization by the Mellon Foundation.
January 18, 2024
Professor and Chair of Literature Kazim Ali presents a retrospective book of poetry traversing ideas of home, spirituality, love and loss.
October 6, 2023
Researchers from the UC San Diego Qualcomm Institute have helped create a text-to-music diffusion model for human-machine creativity.
November 2, 2023
For Jason Magabo Perez, UC San Diego alumnus and 2023-24 poet laureate for the city of San Diego, poetry and activism are one and the same. Today, he draws on stories from his past and the strength of his family to build community and empower San Diego’s youth.
April 11, 2017
With his retirement on the horizon, University Librarian Brian Schottlaender has pledged two generous gifts to the UC San Diego Library, one to advance the Geisel Library Revitalization Initiative (GLRI) and another to support the Archive for New Poetry in the Library’s Special Collections & Archives.
April 21, 2022
…2020 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry—a unique time amid a global pandemic when his words had the opportunity to help heal readers. Next month, he will be sharing these same words with the UC San Diego campus community as part of a poetry reading event at Price Center Theater. On May…
February 1, 2024
The University of California San Diego Library’s Signature Event Series, now in its fourth year of programming, continues with an event featuring San Diego Poet Laureate and UC San Diego alumnus Jason Magabo Perez ’03, MA ’13, PhD ’16.
December 5, 2012
If you’ve grown weary of the same old holiday gift giving ideas, here’s a novel gift idea that is historically significant, reasonably priced, and will also support University of California libraries: a book digitized from the University of California’s own library collections.
May 1, 2012
…her first book of poetry, “Not Me,” in 1991. In 1992, Myles, as she puts it on her website, “first became known to many people for her openly female write-in campaign for President of the United States.” “The Importance of Being Iceland,” the first full volume of Myles’ essays and…
January 25, 2016
…series, originally rooted in poetry, is among the longest running programs in the state, dating to the early 1970s. Each quarter the Department of Literature hosts the “new” writing series, and this winter’s series, which began Jan. 13 and runs through March 2, takes a transnational focus with guest writers…
