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O C T O B E R13MONDAY6:30 PMI Watched the World…30 Years After BrautiganCo-presented by The Bancroft Library, proud repository of a significant collection of RichardBrautigan’s papersIf you are thinking about something that happened a long time ago:Somebody asked you a question and you did not know the answer.That is my name.— Richard Brautigan, In Watermelon SugarThirty years after Richard Brautigan’s passing, friends Joanne Kyger, Michael McClure and DavidMeltzer, and family members Ianthe Brautigan-Swensen and Paul Swensen gather in discussionwith poet and U.C. professor Robert Hass, to recall the man and the writer whose works (TroutFishing in America, The Pill Versus the Springhill Mine Disaster) were synonymous with thecultural awakening of the 1960s in San Francisco. Created and screened solely for this event willalso be Paul Swensen’s short film You Will Have Unreal Recollections of Me, using interviews aswell as unique images from the collection of Brautigan’s daughter Ianthe.Morrison Library101 Doe Library, U.C. Berkeley campusFREEAll Ages ♿Ianthe Brautigan-Swensen is an Americanwriter and daughter of late author RichardBrautigan. Her parents separated when she wastwo and she spent most of her young life withher father. Her first book You Can’t Catch Death:A Daughter’s Memoir has been translated intoSwedish, German, and Russian, and will soonbe available from Audible.com. She teachesat Sonoma State University in the HutchinsSchool of Liberal Studies.Robert Hass has been a U.S. Poet Laureate,Pulitzer Prize recipient, and MacArthur Fellow, andis co-author, with Edward O. Wilson, of the recentbook The Poetic Species.Joanne Kyger is a prominent figure in California’spoetry scene, and is influenced by her practice ofZen Buddhism and her ties to the poets of BlackMountain, the San Francisco Renaissance, and theBeat Generation. Her recent collections include2012 and About Now: Collected Poems from theNational Poetry Foundation, with On Timeforthcoming (City Lights, 2015). She teaches atNaropa University’s Summer Writing program.Michael McClure is a living legend, a centralfigure of the Beat Generation, and one of thepoets who participated in the famous Six Galleryreading which marked the public debut of AllenGinsberg’s landmark poem Howl. McClurecollaborated with Wallace Berman and BruceConner, was associated with San Francisco’spsychedelic counterculture, and at age 81continues to reach new audiences through hispoetry, plays, and performance. His recentpublications include Of Indigo and Saffron:New and Selected Poems (U.C. Press),Mysteriosos and other poems (New Directions),and Ghost Tantras (City Lights).David Meltzer is a teacher and author of over40 books of poetry and prose. Titles includeDavid’s Copy: Selected Poems (Penguin Poets)and When I was a Poet (City Lights PocketPoets # 60.) He’s also edited various anthologiesincluding San Francisco Beat: Talking WithThe Poets (City Lights), Writing Jazz (MercuryHouse), and The Secret Garden: Anthology ofthe Classical Kabbalah (Station Hill). In 2011 hereceived the SF Bay Guardian award for LifetimeAchievement.Paul Swensen has worked in the Bay Area for20 years as a filmmaker, and has written andproduced several award-winning television seriesand commercials. His upcoming documentaryabout Richard Brautigan, Here Is SomethingBeautiful, (Etc., co-directed by Anthony Lucero,is scheduled for release in 2015.32