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Poem Present: Geoffrey O’Brien reading from his work
Thursday, November 5, 2009 @ noon

Geoffrey G. O’Brien is the author of Green and Gray (2007) and The Guns and Flags Project (2002), both from The University of California Press, and coauthor (in collaboration with the poet Jeff Clark) of 2A (Quemadura, 2006); a third collection is forthcoming from The University of California Press in 2011 and a chapbook, Poem with No Good Lines, will be out in Fall 2009 from Hand Held Editions. He is an Assistant Professor in the English Department at UC Berkeley and also teaches in the Prison University Project at San Quentin State Prison.

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University of Chicago-Classics 110
1010 E. 59th St.
Chicago, IL


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University of Chicago

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