Uploaded May 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Lunch Poems, Berkeley’s storied noontime poetry series, welcomes Brandon Brown.
Brandon Brown is the author of several books, including, most recently, Work (Atelos, 2020) and The Four Seasons (Wonder, 2018). In 2024, Free Poetry published his translation of the extant works of the troubadour Raimbaut d’Aurenga, Joy Is My Hotel. Brown’s writing on art and culture has appeared in Art in America, Frieze, The Believer, and Fanzine, among other publications. He received the Toni Beauchamp Prize in Critical Art Writing in 2018 and a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship in poetry in 2015. He is a co-editor at Krupskaya Books and occasionally publishes the zine Panda’s Friend. He lives in Richmond, California.
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 or follow @PoemsLunch on Instagram and X.
Lunch Poems, Berkeley’s storied noontime poetry series, welcomes Brandon Brown.
Brandon Brown is the author of several books, including, most recently, Work (Atelos, 2020) and The Four Seasons (Wonder, 2018). In 2024, Free Poetry published his translation of the extant works of the troubadour Raimbaut d’Aurenga, Joy Is My Hotel. Brown’s writing on art and culture has appeared in Art in America, Frieze, The Believer, and Fanzine, among other publications. He received the Toni Beauchamp Prize in Critical Art Writing in 2018 and a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship in poetry in 2015. He is a co-editor at Krupskaya Books and occasionally publishes the zine Panda’s Friend. He lives in Richmond, California.
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 or follow @PoemsLunch on Instagram and X.
