(Charles Kruger) Beloved poet/teacher/activist and Mills College MFA Meg Day has been a huge contributor to the Bay Area literary scene for the past several years. She…
(Evan Karp) As I set out to write about this past week something unexpected happened: my conscious mind admitted that no matter how loud it…
(Evan Karp) If you weren’t at Quiet Lightning‘s recent show at the San Francisco Conservatory of Flowers, and you haven’t seen the photos yet, do…
(Evan Karp) Sitting on the floor in a Chinatown hole underlining O Powerful Western Star with lead, Jack Hirschman beside me, Sarah Page smiling a…
(Nicole McFeely) In this January 2011 article, Why There Are Words won Litseen’s first (and only) award for Classiest Reading Series. For those of you…
(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) D. A. Powell, happy to be back in San Francisco after a stint on the East Coast, casually explained that he had “smoked The…
(Evan Karp) Sure, the room was packed because Daphne Gottlieb was there to read from her new book 15 Ways to Stay Alive. Yes, it’s…
(Evan Karp) Paul Madonna produces the weekly All Over Coffee strip for the San Francisco Chronicle and Small Potatoes for The Rumpus, where he is…
(Evan Karp) They went underground, happy to read their poems and stories where no one would hear them but the people who joined them to…