With their recent mandated closure due to the Coronavirus Pandemic, the wonderful people at Dog Eared Books Castro are hoping to raise money to pay…
What started three years ago as an annual four-day juried writers’ retreat at Mayacamas Ranch in Calistoga, called Lit Camp, has become a nonprofit that…
David Meltzer is a poet and a time traveler. He came here from 1937, and remembers feeling “doomed by the atom bomb” when he was…
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…
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.
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:…
A note from our friends at McSweeney’s: These are trying times at the McSweeney’s Poetry Series. Not because we don’t have oodles of incredible work…
A profile of Mondo Bummer Books on the occasion of their fifth anniversary: The adage not to judge a book by its cover has perhaps never…