The first Chinese American to graduate from U.C. Berkeley and publish a book of poems, Arthur Sze is an internationally known writer and celebrated translator. Jackson Mac Low describes him as, "truly, a poet of clarity and compassion." A recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and two grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, Sze teaches at the Institute of American Indian Arts, and is the first poet laureate of Santa Fe, where he resides.

Support for this series is provided by Mrs. William Main, the Library, The Morrison Library Fund, the dean's office of the College of Letters and Sciences, and the Townsend Center for the Humanities. These events are also partially supported by Poets & Writers, Inc. through a grant it has received from The James Irvine Foundation.

Additional information is available at lunchpoems.berkeley.edu.