To hear Timothy Don talk about Oakland, you might suspect he’s running for mayor. “I’ve lived in many different places,” he said recently, by phone:…
Sitting in a semicircle around Jill Tomasetti’s Inner Richmond apartment, the members of Drop Leaf Press gathered last week to discuss their first book, Tomasetti’s…
An interview with Tessa Micaela, from The Write Stuff series: Tessa Micaela was born and raised Philadelphia and lives and works in Oakland, for now. Tessa is the…
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…
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…
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,…
An interview with Julien Poirier, from The Write Stuff series: Julien Poirier was born in San Francisco in 1970. He has taught poetry in the New York City…