An interview with Daphne Gottlieb, for The Write Stuff series over at SF Weekly: Daphne Gottlieb stitches together the ivory tower and the gutter just by using…
There was a record of Moroccan trance music playing in the poetry room at City Lights. Acoustically it was astute, what with William Burroughs having…
Spoken word judged by a live audience with the winners to be printed in an annual journal. I sat down with co-creator Tatyana Brown to…
(Charles Kruger) When “Lyrics and Dirges” takes over Pegasus Books in Berkeley for their monthly reading series, readers will often include nationally known writers along…
(Evan Karp) After adding the brilliant Jen G to replace Andrew Paul Nelson, who is busy with the band, the new shit show is in…
(Charles Kruger) Beloved poet/teacher/activist and Mills College MFA Meg Day has been a huge contributor to the Bay Area literary scene for the past several years. She…
(Nicole McFeely) Featured Event: Friday, August 26th– Nothing is Hidden: Matthew Zapruder & Matthew Dickman Nothing is Hidden is a monthly series of readings and artist…
(Nicole McFeely) Featured Event: Saturday, August 20th- Literary Death Match Billed as the most exciting thing to ever cost nothing, this international reading series is heating up…
(Nicole McFeely) Featured Event: Thursday, July 7th Epicenter w/Interdisciplinary Writers Lab Through the Interdisciplinary Writers Lab, a group of emerging writers from the Bay Area…
At the end of the night, Sat Jun 18 11, when the raffle and auction were over, I saw one poet hand another poet a stack of bills so big that I swear, for a moment, I thought we could do anything.
(Nicole McFeely) Featured Event: Dean Young Benefit One thing I’ve noticed again and again with the people I meet who are involved in these types…
(Nicole McFeely) Featured Event: Saturday June 18th Ah, Saturday. As a day, we all know it’s usually one of the best. However, this Saturday is…
(Evan Karp) D. A. Powell, happy to be back in San Francisco after a stint on the East Coast, casually explained that he had “smoked The…
(Evan Karp) Sure, the room was packed because Daphne Gottlieb was there to read from her new book 15 Ways to Stay Alive. Yes, it’s…
(Nicole McFeely) Featured event: Quiet Lightning: Neighborhood Heroes, v.3 When was the last time you saw Tamim Ansary, D.A. Powell, Meg Day, Jack Boulware, Jane Ganahl, Rob Brezsny, Steven Gray, Caitlin…
(Evan Karp) An old 16th& Mission regular moved to New Zealand 5 months ago, wrote new poems there and memorized them, came back last week…
(Evan Karp) They went underground, happy to read their poems and stories where no one would hear them but the people who joined them to…
(Evan Karp) Daphne Gottlieb is the author and editor of nine books, winner of the Audre Lorde Award in Poetry and the Firecracker Award, has…
(Evan Karp) Daphne Gottlieb is the author and editor of nine books, winner of the Audre Lorde Award in Poetry and the Firecracker Award, has…
