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…
In the beginning of her first book, House A (Omnidawn), Jennifer S. Cheng writes: “It is important to note that before language, children experience memories…
Now in its 17th year, Litquake began when a group of friends organized an afternoon of readings in Golden Gate Park. Over the years, it’s…
Born in Ecuador, Mauro Javier Cardenas planned to return home after receiving an education in the United States, with the intention of changing the political…
Litquake runs Oct. 6-15 and begins with an opening-night gala celebrating 400 years of Shakespeare, with poet Gary Soto, harpist Shelley Phillips and a special…
Shortly after winning the 2013 National Book Award for her second collection of poems, Incarnadine, Portland’s Mary Szybist told the Paris Review that she started…
An interview with Zach Wyner, from The Write Stuff series: Zach Wyner is a writer and teacher who works with incarcerated youth in the San Francisco Bay Area. HIs debut novel,…
Quiet Lightning presents their 99th show at PianoFight, a launch for their Kickstarter curated by Chris Cole, Kelsey Schimmelman, Christine No, & Evan Karp and performed live on Sept 12,…
In a tribute to the life and work of Justin Chin, who died late last year at age 46, Jennifer Joseph of Manic D Press…
Why There Are Words, which formed as a monthly Sausalito-based reading series in January 2010 (which I wrote about at the time and have several times…
Love, money, property, state, war, death and revolutionary change: These are the themes of the “Seven Meditations on Political Sadomasochism,” one of the most famous…
What started as a late-night text message has turned into a five-day East Bay Poetry Summit, with poets flying in from as far away as…
The underground Cacophony Society, which in the ’90s spawned outfits in more than a dozen major cities and inspired both Chuck Palahniuk‘s “Fight Club” and…
From around 1996 to 1999, Brian Lucas edited a poetry magazine and chapbook press called Angle, the issues of which were stapled and letter-size and…
To kick off last summer’s long journey into winter and to raise funds for its annual programming, Small Press Traffic invited the larger community of…
An interview with Aya de Leon, from The Write Stuff series: Aya de Leon is the author of the Latina feminist heist novel Uptown Thief (July 26, 2016; Kensington/Dafina)…
The Contemporary Jewish Museum’s hosting of “Beat Memories: The Photographs of Allen Ginsberg” overlaps with City Lights’ celebration of its 60th year this week with…
In 2008, Kimberly Escamilla founded the nonprofit International Poetry Library of San Francisco to serve the rapidly growing number of master of fine arts students…
In his 1998 “Compressions: A Second Helping,” Thomas Farber describes his epigrammatic writing as “using the enchantment of language to express … aspects of disenchantment,…
Even before the writing of his T.S. Eliot Prize-winning collection of poems, “Works & Days” (2010), University of San Francisco professor and City Brights columnist…
The Monthly Rumpus, an offshoot of the San Francisco literary culture website TheRumpus.net, recently hosted its final party at the Make-Out Room after three years…
Insularity might be the one thing San Francisco and writing communities generally have most in common. Once we belong, we have everything we need: a…
Four hundred authors walked into a bar, a police station, an art gallery, a Buddhist center, a cheese shop, a sex shop, a bowling alley….
When Daniel Alarcón toured the world for his first novel, the 2009 International Literature Award-winning “Lost City Radio,” he spoke with many people in rural South…
