Quiet Lightning presents their 108th show at Clarion Music Center, curated by Lapo Guzzini and Caitlyn Wild and performed live on June 5, 2017: Adam Moskowitz » Rayan…
One literary organizer said to another: “Can you get a couple of Babar people to come in and read at the Octopus?” The resulting reading…
Quiet Lightning presents their 107th show at Galería de la Raza, curated by Christine No + Abe Becker and performed live on May 1, 2017: Baruch Porras-Hernandez » Natasha Dennerstein » Sarah…
Writer/musician Bonnie Wai-Lee Kwong leads an afternoon of poetic contemplation, in collaboration with musician/writer Tessa Brinckman and other artists: writers Javier Huerta, Evan Karp, Danny…
Christine No hosted Nomadic Press‘ Get Lit #23 on Tuesday, April 18, 2017 at Ale Industries: Featuring readings/performance by (in order of appearance): K. R. Morrison…
Deb Olin Unferth‘s new collection of stories Wait Till You See Me Dance (Graywolf) is full of surprises, with twists and turns that often leave the…
Quiet Lightning presents their 106th show at Elbo Room, curated by Evan Karp, Brianna Nelsun + Hannah Rubin and performed live on Apr 3, 2017: Adam Moskowitz » Katie Wheeler-Dubin » Kazumi…
For the fifth annual SFJazz Poetry Festival, Genny Lim has curated more than four nights of interdisciplinary performances. She’s used the opportunity to invest in…
Elif Batuman, author of The Possessed: Adventures With Russian Books and the People Who Read Them (2010), was working on a book inspired by a Chekhov…
Quiet Lightning presents their 105th show at Edinburgh Castle,curated by Meghan Thornton + Olga Zilberbourg and performed live on Mar 6, 2017: Peggy Schimmelman » Jenny Xie » Logan…
Shortly after Dixie De La Tour moved to the Bay Area, she received an invitation that would change her life. “I used to have a…
Quiet Lightning presents their 104th show at The Stud Bar, curated by Josey Rose and Christine No and performed live on Feb 6, 2017: Joe Wadlington Heather Bourbeau Peter Bullen…
In 2006, Kim Rosen arrived at the Tasaru Safe House in Narok, Kenya, and stood before a group of Maasai girls who had run away…
Disaster has long been an obsession for Oakland poet Madison Davis, whose debut book of that name is out this week from Bay Area press…
On January 15, Bay Area Writers Resist, in solidarity with Writers Resist groups around the world, hosted a night of readings and recommitment to Democracy—a benefit…
Ingrid Rojas Contreras and Jeremiah Barber were sitting on their couch, horrified by Donald Trump’s 100-day plan. “It occurred to us that he’s such a…
Quiet Lightning presents their 103rd show outside the Montgomery Street BART Station, curated by Evan Karp + Kate Folk and performed live on Jan 2, 2017: A.D. Winans…
From the website: 100 Days Action is a counternarrative to Trump’s one hundred day plan. A calendar of activist and artistic strategy, 100 Days Action…
In the midst of a feud with the poet Denise Levertov about the possibilities of politically motivated art, George Oppen wrote his only essay, “The…
An interview with Matt Carney, from The Write Stuff series: What’s your biggest struggle—work or otherwise? Excess. If someone said I want to do what you do, what…
Quiet Lightning presents their 102nd show at the Tenderloin Museum, curated by Josey Rose Duncan + Jonathan Carroll and performed live on Dec 5, 2016, QL’s seven year anniversary show: Rohan DaCosta…
Cleve Jones’ new memoir, When We Rise: My Life in the Movement, begins with a single-sentence paragraph: “The movement saved my life.” “That’s not rhetoric,…
For two months in 1913, the San Francisco Bulletin published daily installments of the autobiography of an anonymous prostitute the paper called Alice Smith. Her…
Quiet Lightning presents their 101st show at The American Bookbinders Museum, curated by Kelsey Schimmelman + Christine No and performed live on Nov 7, 2016: Wesley Cohen josé vadi Kate Ambash…
It started with the simple, perhaps under-asked question: “Wouldn’t it be fun if we did something really crazy?” So said City Lights events director Peter…
