Born in New Hampshire, Hope Amico took her letterpress skills to Louisiana State University for a degree in printmaking and started Gutwrench Press, an umbrella…
Uptown Oakland was a different place when, in 2012, Beast Crawl put on its first annual daylong literary festival. The free event brought an estimated…
The belief that art should be public and freely accessible does not preclude the belief that artists should be paid for their work. To that…
Ben Lerner’s second novel, “10:04,” begins with the Hasidic saying that in the world to come, “Everything will be just as it is now, just…
Cassandra Dallett, Katie Wheeler-Dubin, Yxta Maya Murray, Fernando Meisenhalter, and Rohan DaCosta read for Quiet Lightning in front of projections inspired by their readings, created by Shane Bruce Johnston and curated by Chris Cole…
Kate Folk, Susan Gevirtz, and Lyzette Wanzer—Affiliate Artists at the Headlands Center for the Arts—read during the Summer Open House on Sunday, July 17 2016:
A Berkeley native, Aya de Leon has long married social justice activism and the arts, producing subversive work in popular forms. From 1998 to 2008,…
What began as a poetic rewrite of the U.S. Department of Defense’s Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms has become the first book by Solmaz…
An interview with Leora Fridman, from The Write Stuff series: Leora Fridman is an interdisciplinary artist, organizer and educator based in the Bay Area. Leora…
Michael Warr presented Of Protest and Poetry: From Emmett Till to Trayvon Martin at City Lights on Thursday, June 30 2016, with readings by Warr, D. Scott…