(Charles Kruger) Friday the 13th turned out to be a lucky night for me with two new experiences: I visited the San Pablo Arts District…
(Charles Kruger) Recently Sean Labrador y Manzano, a 2007 graduate of the Mills College MFA program in Creative Writing and McSweeney’s columnist (Conversations At The…
(Nicole McFeely) We all stumble, don’t we? Sometimes, there are things we can’t say, can’t do, can’t… feel? But what if we could? What if…
(Courtney Sanchez) People in San Francisco are afraid to get out and do things. Involvement can be frightening; feelings of self doubt enter often when…
(Charles Kruger) On Apr 11 (the usual 2nd Monday) the Makeout Room was taken over by the enthusiastic if somewhat odd crowd of hipsters, litsters,…
(Maureen Blennerhassett) I didn’t know what the term “sex-positive” meant before Bawdy Storytelling. I heard it mentioned by a few of the storytellers (Shar Rednour…
(Nicole McFeely) It only 6:15, and there’s already a line stretching down the block toward Mission Street. A guy walking by stops and looks up…
(Charles Kruger) One of the treasures of the South Bay poetry scene is Poetry Santa Cruz, a non profit corporation devoted to nurturing the poetry…
(Evan Karp) After a long year of books, book tours, new adventures in social media prostitution (whatever that means), and a surge in series and…
(Nicole McFeely) We’ve all heard them: melo-dramatic poems written in the style of famous authors, exaggerated in-class essays, transparently autobiographical “short stories,” overly confident job…