An Open Letter to North American Readers—The View re: my Tijuana Hero, Heriberto Yépez (and his Imperial Fantasy, Sir Charles Olson), now strangely honoring (or…
It was not until adolescence, and only because of a shared love for poetry, that Bill Berkson learned that his father’s side of the family…
When Timothy Don and Kira Brunner Don decided they wanted to put together an Oakland literary festival of ideas, they reached out to local organizations…
An interview profile of ZYZZYVA’s editors Laura Cogan and Oscar Villalon on the journal’s 30th anniversary, in anticipation of the 30-year celebration party on May 29, 2015. First published in SF Weekly.
Benjamin Hollander reviews Radical Poetics and Secular Jewish Culture (The University of Alabama Press), edited by Daniel Morris and Stephen Paul Miller.
When Monique Lewis received her master’s degree in creative writing from Wilkes University in Pennsylvania, she didn’t want the experience to end. “I wanted to…
What began four years ago as an open-ended assignment has become Brittany Billmeyer-Finn’s debut full-length book, “The Meshes,” which Black Radish Books will release this…
As part of the first annual Bay Area Book Festival, this… thing is happening: a library constructed from 50,000 books donated by the Internet Archive,…
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:…
I recently met up with Matthew Siegel and Tracey Knapp, and emailed with Lisa Ciccarello, leading up to a reading by the three poets this Friday, February 20th…