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UC Berkeley: Morrison Library [1]

Type: 
Reading Venue
Website: 
https://www.lib.berkeley.edu/visit/morrison [2]
Contact name: 
Scott Peterson
E-mail: 
speterso@berkeley.edu [3]

Morrison Library opened in 1928 as a traditional library reading room providing an ambient atmosphere for students to take a break from the rigors of academic life. One of the architectural treasures of the UC Berkeley campus, Morrison Library offers comfortable seating for leisurely reading and maintains a circulating collection of newly published popular fiction and non-fiction. Morrison Library also has a limited collection of circulating audiobooks, travel books, and newly published poetry books, as well as subscriptions to several popular magazines and a few daily newspapers.

Events in the Morrison Library include Lunch Poems, a noontime poetry reading series under the direction of poet Robert Hass, and Story Hour in the Library, a monthly prose reading series hosted by English department faculty members Vikram Chandra and Melanie Abrams that features distinguished prose writers from the Bay Area and beyond.

Genre: 
Poetry [4], Fiction [5]
Event types: 
Reading [6]
Lunch Poems, Story Hour
Address: 
101 Doe Library, University of California
Berkeley, CA 94720

Source URL:https://www.pw.org/literary_places/uc_berkeley_morrison_library

Links
[1] https://www.pw.org/literary_places/uc_berkeley_morrison_library [2] https://www.lib.berkeley.edu/visit/morrison [3] mailto:speterso@berkeley.edu [4] https://www.pw.org/genre/poetry [5] https://www.pw.org/genre/fiction [6] https://www.pw.org/category/event_types/reading