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soledad con carne is a casually queer, intergalactic Oakland, Ohlone-based chicanx punk poet, working, poor multiple high school drop-out bookstore lackey, poet laureate of the San Fernando Valley, and blatant smoker sharing-trauma-with-their-mother. -
Stacey LewisYesterday would have been Lawrence Ferlinghetti’s 105th birthday. The Bay Area literary icon died in 2021. He is most associated with books and poetry — and rightly so. But before he published Howl, before he opened City Lights and before the Beats he was part of the World War Two effort.
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Bay PoetsDr. Naomi Helena Quiñonez, Chicana poet, educator and activist, is the author of three collections of poetry: Hummingbird Dream/Sueño de Colibri, The Smoking Mirror and The Exiled Moon. -
Bay PoetsUS-born Punjabi poet Taneesh Kaur does the brave thing and allows us into her North American experience with her poem "Living on the edge of Ohio with Kentucky." -
Bay PoetsToday eco griot and abolitionist Ashia Ajani reads us an excerpt from her powerful and luminous poem "Durag" -
Bay PoetsMaw Shein Win reading us her poem "The Grisham House". This poem will be featured in Maw's upcoming poetry collection "PERCUSSING THE THINKING JAR." -
Bay PoetsBay Area poeta Flavia Elisa Mora celebrates queer brown love by reading us an excerpt from her poem. -
Bay PoetsAmerican Egyptian poet Antony Fangary takes us to his grandfather's wake and to other deep family moments in his poem. -
Bay PoetsBrennan DeFrisco is a multiracial white male poet, voice actor & teaching artist from the Bay Area by way of Portland, Oregon. His book of poetry "Honeysuckle & Nightshade" was published this year by Swimming With Elephants Publications. -
UncuffedSan Quentin producers reflect on the lessons –– both good and bad –– that are passed down from family. -
Are poems valuable because they do something for us, or are they gloriously useless? -
