On Thursday, Jun 23 ZYZZYVA and the Squaw Valley Community of Writers organized a Bay Area benefit to help Dean Young absorb the staggering costs of his recent heart transplant. An exceptional roster of poets each read one of Dean’s poems and one of their own.
At the end of the night, Sat Jun 18 11, when the raffle and auction were over, I saw one poet hand another poet a stack of bills so big that I swear, for a moment, I thought we could do anything.
(Charles Kruger) Pegasus Books has been a Berkeley institution since 1969, if you count its first incarnation as Pellucidar Books. For all these years, they…
(Evan Karp) A group of poets formed a constellation to benefit the poet with a new heart, who might, as one suggested, grow a new…
(Evan Karp) I lived in Fruitvale for 11 of last year’s months and worked in Berkeley for most of that time, and had a pretty…
(Nicole McFeely) Many of us have wondered what the hell they’re thinking. Filling the rooftop rows of sightseeing buses with their sun hats and disposable…
(Charles Kruger) Here’s a little secret: Rumpus founder Stephen Elliott, perennially childlike Peter Pan, outre sexual adventurer and provocateur, former sex worker, serial confessionalist, one…
(Evan Karp) At first it was your turn. You were handed a book of poems by a local author you had never read. You read…
(Evan Karp) I contract. I dilate. “Push! Push!” I wax. I wane. “Push! You can do it!” … “Congratulations! It’s a nonprofit organization.” At some…
(Evan Karp) Unlike most of the reading series I’ve been to, Babylon Salon is not usually filled with people I know. That’s not to say…