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…
a mini-guide to Fall books and events for SF Weekly‘s seasonal Arts guide
On Saturday, May 3, 93 stores representing 80 of our state’s zip codes will celebrate the first California Bookstore Day with parties that include everything…
There was a record of Moroccan trance music playing in the poetry room at City Lights. Acoustically it was astute, what with William Burroughs having…
Ben Marcus reading from Leaving the Sea at City Lights on Tuesday, January 21 2014. Marcus read the story “I Can Say Many Nice Things,”…
When Time referred to Kenneth Rexroth as the “Father of the Beats,’ he said, “An entomologist is not a bug.” That seems a bit off, though,…
City Lights hosted Michael McClure on the occasion of their reprinting of his classic Ghost Tantras on Wednesday, November 20 2013. Graahr!
City Lights Bookstore, Mechanics’ Institute Library, and San Francisco Art Institute presented CITY LIGHTS AT 60: SUBTLE CHANNELS – An OuLiPo Laboratory: Present, Past, and…
City Lights hosted a reading by Alli Warren to celebrate the publication of her debut collection of poems and the tenth in City Lights’ Spotlight…