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Lucien Gonzalez is a seventeen-year-old non speaking autistic person. In this piece, he shares some of his thoughts, and poetry.
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Today Youssef Alaoui gives us a poetic tour of that wondrous place we call Oakland.
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Bay PoetsAriel Neidermeier is a first generation descendant of Filipino immigrants. Her writing explores themes of freedom, sovereignty, and lineages of survival.
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New ArrivalsMadeleine Cravens poetry collection is about queer relationships and family history set in New York City.
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Bay PoetsJapanese-American poet Lauren Ito gives us a beautiful ancestral reminder. Here's Lauren reading her poem "Arrival As We."
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Bay PoetsNorth Beach poet Andrew Paul Nelson reads his poem "This Tuesday I'm Voting for the Sun."
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Teenage Irish writer, naturalist, and activist Dara McAnulty speaks to the importance of keeping our hearts open amid our era of ecological crises, inviting us to find joy in the unknown. Plus a special poetry reading by acclaimed poet and birder J. Drew Lanham.
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Award-winning author and scholar Amitav Ghosh unpacks our past to reveal how climate change is deeply linked to colonization.
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Bay PoetsPlaywright, essayist and poet Jose Vadi gives us a genuine tactical rumination on this pesky thing we call "tech."
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Bay PoetsTo send off this Poetry Month Guy Biederman is here to give us the inside scoop on some of the strange social proclivities of those beings known as poets.
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Bay Poetssoledad 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.
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CrosscurrentsYesterday 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.