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…
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…
An interview with C.E. Shue, from The Write Stuff series: C.E. Shue is a poet and prose writer who is currently working on her chapbook, “The Beauty of…
An interview with Ivy Johnson, from The Write Stuff series: Ivy Johnson is a poet and performance artist in Oakland, CA. Her book, As They Fall, is a…
An interview with Leora Fridman, from The Write Stuff series: Leora Fridman is an interdisciplinary artist, organizer and educator based in the Bay Area. Leora…
An interview with Alexandra Mattraw, from The Write Stuff series: Alexandra Mattraw is an Oakland poet who curates an art, reading, and performance series called…