[Yale-readings] April 22: Alice Notley

[Kuhl, Nancy]

Alice Notley

Reading April 22nd, 4pm

For the Berkeley Poetry Project

Berkeley Master's House



Notley's collections of verse include In The Pines (2007); Grave of Light: New and Selected Poems 1970-2005 (Weslyan University Press, 2006), which was awarded the 2007 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize from the Academy of American Poets for the best book of the year; Disobedience (2001), winner of the 2002 International Griffin Poetry Prize; Mysteries of Small Houses (1998); The Scarlet Cabinet (with Douglas Oliver, 1992); Homer's Art (1990).



Born on November 8, 1945 in Bisbee, Arizona, Alice Notley grew up in Needles, California. She received a B.A. from Barnard College in 1967, and an M.F.A. from the Writers' Workshop at the University of Iowa in 1969. She moved about frequently in her youth (San Francisco, Bolinas, London, Essex,Chicago) and eventually married the poet Ted Berrigan in 1972, with whom she had two sons. In the early 1970s, Notley settled in New York's Lower East Side, where she was very involved in the local literary scene for several decades. After Berrigan's death in 1983, she married the British poet Douglas Oliver.








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