It started with the simple, perhaps under-asked question: “Wouldn’t it be fun if we did something really crazy?” So said City Lights events director Peter…
Michael Warr presented Of Protest and Poetry: From Emmett Till to Trayvon Martin at City Lights on Thursday, June 30 2016, with readings by Warr, D. Scott…
City Lights published Elaine Kahn‘s debut full-length collection of poems, Women in Public, as the thirteenth title in the City Lights Spotlight series. The following exchange was conducted by email. STEVEN…
When I walked out of the train station in Barcelona, I was confronted with a machine gun. Someone in the Guardia Civil was interested in…
An interview with Elaine Kahn, from The Write Stuff series over at SF Weekly: Musician, poet, artist, Elaine Kahn was born in Evanston, Illinois and is currently based…
One has to be a lowbrow, a bit of a murderer, to be a politician, ready and willing to see people sacrificed, slaughtered, for the…
In 2005 I was in a theater in Davis watching a man waving a huge silver-metallic banner back and forth. There was a fork-lift involved,…
Wave Books Editor-at Large Matthew Zapruder hosted readings by some of the Seattle-based press’ recent authors at City Lights on Tuesday, September 30th 2014: Garrett Caples…
I settle into the prism… tone of solemnity… pulse of the window…. – Henri Michaux I was on the second floor of City Lights ,…
Gillian Conoley celebrated the release of Thousand Times Broken, a collection of three previously untranslated books by French poet Henri Michaux, at City Lights (publisher of…