Event FinderLunch Poems: Stephanie Young
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- In person
- Location
- Morrison Library (inside Doe Library)
About This Event
Lunch Poems (https://www.lib.berkeley.edu/visit/lunch-poems), Berkeley's storied noontime poetry series, welcomes Stephanie Young. Stephanie Young is the author of five books of poetry and prose, including Pet Sounds, which received a Lambda Literary Award; Ursula or University; and It's No Good Everything's Bad. Her latest book, Crowd Control: The Racial Ordering of Literary Reward, written with Claire Grossman and Juliana Spahr, is forthcoming from Columbia University Press. Her scholarly writing has appeared in American Literary History, ASAP/J, Public Books, and Los Angeles Review of Books, among other publications. Young is an editor at Krupskaya Books and co-curated Poetics and Plant Medicine, a 2026 reading and conversation series supported by the Psychedelics in Society and Culture Fellowship program at UC Berkeley.Young directs the creative writing program at Mills College at Northeastern University. The Lunch Poems series, founded by Professor Robert Hass, is supported by Dr. and Mrs. Tom Colby, the UC Berkeley Library, the Morrison Library Fund, the UC Berkeley English Department, and the Deans' Office of the College of Letters & Science. For more information or to be added to the Lunch Poems mailing list, please email poems-library@berkeley.edu (mailto:poems-library@berkeley.edu) or follow @PoemsLunch on Instagram (http://instagram.com/poemslunch) and X (https://twitter.com/PoemsLunch).