Our Series
Pocket Poets Series
In 1955, Lawrence Ferlinghetti launched City Lights Publishers with his now-legendary Pocket Poets Series. The series continues today, remaining true to Ferlinghetti’s founding vision of “an international, dissident, insurgent ferment.”
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Dino Campana
Orphic Songs
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Daisy Zamora
Riverbed of Memory
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Will Alexander
Divine Blue Light (for John Coltrane): Pocket Poets Series No. 63
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Diane di Prima
Revolutionary Letters: 50th Anniversary Edition: Pocket Poets Series No. 27
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Spotlight Series
Our Spotlight Series shines a light on the wealth of innovative American poetry being written today, featuring both established and emerging voices.
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D. S. Marriott
Before Whiteness: City Lights Spotlight No. 21
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Uche Nduka
Facing You: City Lights Spotlight No. 19
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Sophia Dahlin
Natch: City Lights Spotlight No. 20
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Carmen Giménez Smith
Cruel Futures: City Lights Spotlight No. 17
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Open Media Series
The motto of our Open Media Series is “Arm Yourself With Information,” and these books are meant to inform, inspire, and potentially radicalize their readers.
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Stan Cox
The Path to a Livable Future: A New Politics to Fight Climate Change, Racism, and the Next Pandemic
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Mumia Abu-Jamal
Death Blossoms: Reflections from a Prisoner of Conscience, Expanded Edition
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Mumia Abu-Jamal
Have Black Lives Ever Mattered?
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Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
Loaded: A Disarming History of the Second Amendment
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