Born in Ecuador, Mauro Javier Cardenas planned to return home after receiving an education in the United States, with the intention of changing the political…
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…
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…
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…
I recently spoke with Voice of Witness executive editor mimi lok and Palestine Speaks editors Cate Malek and Mateo Hoke to do a short profile for The San Francisco…