by City Lights Intern | Nov 8, 2023 | Blog
Joseph Lease’s critically acclaimed books of poetry include The Body Ghost, Testify, Broken World, and Human Rights. His poem “Broken World (for James Assatly)” was selected for The Best American Poetry 2002, edited by Robert Creeley and David Lehman. His...
by CityLightsBlog | Oct 17, 2023 | Blog
mimi tempestt (she/they) is a multidisciplinary artist, writer, and daughter of California. She has a M.A. in Literature from Mills College, and is currently a doctoral candidate in the Creative/Critical Ph.D. in Literature at UC Santa Cruz. Her first book, the...
by CityLightsBlog | Apr 24, 2023 | Blog
Evan Kennedy is a poet and bicyclist. He is the author of I Am, Am I, to Trust the Joy That Joy Is No More or Less There Now Than Before (Roof Books), Jerusalem Notebook (O’clock Press), The Sissies (Futurepoem), Terra Firmament (Krupskaya), Shoo-Ins to Ruin (Gold...
by CityLightsBlog | Apr 18, 2023 | Blog
Matthew Zapruder is the author of five collections of poetry, most recently Father’s Day, from Copper Canyon, as well as Why Poetry, a book of prose. He is editor at large at Wave Books, where he edits contemporary poetry, prose, and translations. From 2016-7 he held...
by City Lights Intern | Mar 10, 2023 | Blog
Maggie Millner was born and raised in rural upstate New York. She teaches writing at Yale and is a senior editor at The Yale Review. Her poems have appeared in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, and Poetry. Couplets is her first book. Maggie Millner will be reading...
by City Lights Intern | Feb 28, 2023 | Blog
Margaret Randall (New York, 1936) is a poet, essayist, oral historian, translator, photographer and social activist. She lived in Latin America for 23 years (in Mexico, Cuba, and Nicaragua). From 1962 to 1969 she and Mexican poet Sergio Mondragón co-edited El Corno...
by CityLightsBlog | Jan 23, 2023 | Blog
Eleni Sikelianos was born and grew up in California, and has lived in New York, Paris, Athens (Greece), Colorado, and now, Providence. She is the author of nine books of poetry, most recently What I Knew and Make Yourself Happy, and two hybrid...
by CityLightsBlog | Jan 23, 2023 | Blog
LaTasha N. Nevada Diggs is a writer, vocalist and performance/sound artist, and the author of TwERK (Belladonna, 2013). Diggs has presented and performed at California Institute of the Arts, El Museo del Barrio, The Museum of Modern Art, and Walker Art Center and at...
by CityLightsBlog | Jan 19, 2023 | Blog
Anne Waldman is the author of numerous volumes of poetry, including the feminist epic The Iovis Trilogy: Colors in the Mechanism of Concealment, which won the PEN Center USA Award for Poetry in 2012. Other books include Trickster Feminism, Voice’s Daughter of a Heart...
by CityLightsBlog | Nov 30, 2022 | Blog
Yunte Huang is a professor of English at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is the author of Transpacific Imaginations, Charlie Chan, and Inseparable. Huang has also received fellowships from the Society for the Humanities and the Guggenheim Foundation....
by CityLightsBlog | Nov 23, 2022 | Blog
Eileen Myles is the author of more than twenty books, including Afterglow (a dog memoir), Inferno (a poet’s novel), Chelsea Girls, and Cool For You. Myles’s many honors include a Guggenheim Fellowship, four Lambda Literary Awards, the Clark Prize for Excellence in...
by CityLightsBlog | Nov 22, 2022 | Blog
Courtney Faye Taylor is a writer and visual artist. She is the author of Concentrate (Graywolf Press, 2022), selected by Rachel Eliza Griffiths as the winner of the Cave Canem Poetry Prize. Courtney earned her BA from Agnes Scott College and her MFA from the...
by CityLightsBlog | Nov 14, 2022 | Blog
Born in 1948 in Los Angeles, Will Alexander is a poet, novelist, playwright, philosopher, visual artist, and musician. He has published over two dozen books in a variety of genres and has earned many honors and awards including a Whiting Fellowship for Poetry, a...
by CityLightsBlog | Oct 11, 2022 | Blog
Giada Scodellaro is a writer and photographer born in Naples, Italy and raised in the Bronx, NY. She holds an MFA from the New School. Some of Them Will Carry Me is her first book. City Lights will be celebrating this book with a virtual conversation with Giada, Amina...
by CityLightsBlog | Sep 28, 2022 | Blog
James Cagney’s first poetry collection, Black Steel Magnolias In The Hour of Chaos Theory, was the winner of the PEN Oakland 2019 Josephine Miles Award. His most recent collection, Martian: The Saint Of Loneliness, was published by Nomadic Press and...
by CityLightsBlog | Sep 19, 2022 | Blog
By Garrett Caples City Lights has just released Get the Money!, a monumental event in American poetry that brings together the essential prose of New York School poet Ted Berrigan. For those not familiar with him and his work, briefly stated, Ted was born in...
by CityLightsBlog | Sep 12, 2022 | Blog
A poet and translator, Jody Gladding has published four full-length collections of poetry, and two letterpress edition chapbooks. Her work has been featured in Orion, Ecopoetics, Best American Experimental Writing, and Northern Woodlands. She has been awarded...
by CityLightsBlog | May 31, 2022 | Blog
Pictured: original piece by Julien Poirier from his mailed poetry chapbook/assemblage series, Night Mail. By Garrett Caples Two of the most heinous mass shootings in the U.S. in recent memory took place within 10 days of each other: the racially motivated murder of 11...
by CityLightsBlog | May 5, 2022 | Blog
Mosab Abu Toha is a Palestinian poet, scholar, and librarian who was born in Gaza and has spent his life there. A graduate in English language teaching and literature, he taught English at the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) schools in Gaza from...
by CityLightsBlog | Mar 28, 2022 | Blog
Rae Armantrout is the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of fifteen books of poetry. She has published ten books with Wesleyan University Press, including Wobble, Entanglements, Partly, and Versed. She lives in Everett, Washington. Additional honors for her work include...
