Afrofuturism: Risen
From a Poet’s Sun explores the intersection of technology, science,
and the arts, as well as culture, of the African Diaspora.
Featuring Bay Area poets James Cagney, Tongo-Eisen Martin, Thea
Matthews, and Tureeda Mikell.
Nov 18, 2020
Litquake
and City Lights present John Freeman with Robin Coste Lewis, Tommy
Orange, and Matt Summell. John Freeman celebrates the latest
installment of the journal that is called "a powerful force in the
literary world" (Los Angeles Times.) Freeman's turns to one of the
greatest elevating forces of life: love.
Aug 25, 2020
Millions of families are separated today, by circumstances of the current pandemic, by draconian immigration policies, and by war. Family separation has long been used as an intentional political tool to pressure, frighten, and terrorize. Through the lens of fiction, we can understand the impact of such wounds,...
Aug 18, 2020
“One of the difficulties of being alive today, is that everything is absurd but fewer and fewer things are funny.” In her new essay collection Nothing Is Wrong and Here Is Why, acclaimed Washington Post satirist Alexandra Petri offers perfectly logical, reassuring reasons for everything that has happened in...
Jul 21, 2020
Cutting-edge poetry and visuals from both coasts, on the theme of "You, Me, and Everyone In Quarantine." From the depths of their shelter-in-place, these writers will perform their literary hearts out for you! With SevanKele Boult, Wo Chan, Katie Fricas, Irene McCalphin aka Magnoliah Black, and Preeti Vangani. Curated...