Join us every Thursday at 6:30 p.m. in our Readers Bookstore Fort Mason for our weekly FREE poetry series!
Browse books and enjoy a glass of wine while listening to internationally acclaimed poets and artists!
In 1973, at the University of Southern California, some of the world’s greatest Latino and Chicano poets converged for the first contemporary Flor y Canto…
Benjamin Hollander reviews Radical Poetics and Secular Jewish Culture (The University of Alabama Press), edited by Daniel Morris and Stephen Paul Miller.
In 2005 I was in a theater in Davis watching a man waving a huge silver-metallic banner back and forth. There was a fork-lift involved,…
The Friends of the San Francisco Public Library and their Poet-In-Residence Jack Hirschman, together with the San Francisco Public Library, are pleased to present Poets…
“Before Enlightenment, chop wood and carry water. After Enlightenment, chop wood and carry water.” – old Buddhist proverb City Lights was so packed that people…
ruth weiss was in town for the 60th anniversary of City Lights Bookstore. She was also in town when City Lights began in 1953. In…