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…
Sitting in his office at the Museum of the African Diaspora, where he’s served as deputy director since September, Michael Warr holds a copy of…
Paperback releases are tricky: You’ve already done a tour for the hardcover, your friends and family and neighbors and their friends came out to see…
On a whim, at age 23, Jesús Castillo bought a pack of index cards, and for the next two years carried a small stack of…
When Cherilyn Parsons quit her job to start the Bay Area Book Festival, she had no funding and no experience producing large-scale events. At the…
Last year, San Francisco Poet Laureate Alejandro Murguía revived the Flor y Canto festival, which began its contemporary incarnation in the United States at the University…
It happens once a year now: Oakland’s City Hall is transformed into the venue for a daylong free festival of ideas. Timothy Don and Kira…
Ten years ago, as San Jose State University celebrated its 150th anniversary, a new tradition was born. “It’s kind of amusing,” said Alan Soldofsky, a…
Awarded a Creative Work Fund grant for the third time since 2004, The Poetry Center at San Francisco State University has partnered with Barbara Jane…