#FromTheArchives A poster from 1978 advertising a poetry and music event hosted by KSW, featuring Genny Lim and Nancy Hom. Genny Lim is a Bay Area-based poet who has published multiple collections, the most recent being "Paper Gods and Rebels" (2013). Nancy Hom is a writer, graph

Join Poetry Flash, in person, for the 41st Annual Northern California Book Awards! This Sunday, September 11, 2022 at 2:00pm at the San Francisco Main Library! For more information see our Facebook page: fb.me/e/27JKlCEx5

Congratulations Genny Lim on your appointment as City of San Francisco Poet Laureate! 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼 SF Public Library looks forward to serving as your partner and platform for realizing your vision 📚📚📚📚

Following an acclaimed career, Genny Lim, 77, will become San Francisco’s first Chinese American poet laureate during a Sept. 6 ceremony at the Asian Art Museum. trib.al/WupkkCi

Hannah Arendt teaching at the New School for Social Research

Nobody is funnier on black biracial matters than Danzy Senna, whose “Colored Television”—about a novelist in Hollywood who fails to cash in on her identity—is out today. I profiled her for The New Yorker newyorker.com/culture/person…

Congratulations to Genny Lim, just named San Francisco Poet Laureate! Here's an interview with Genny Lim that we like. Recorded by the Asia Society, Lim discusses her life as a writer, artist, and activist with Jen Shyu and Sumi Tonooka. asiasociety.org/video/green-ro…

You're invited to Litquake's Booksellers Ball! Join us for an evening of food, drink, dance, and drag to honor 25 years of Litquake and celebrate San Francisco's independent booksellers! Tickets now avail: buff.ly/3AMUPhT

And, please, if you care about the future of journalism—and democracy—listen to Rose Aguilar on KALW’s Your Call Radio! Her Friday press review is the best media analysis on radio!

A poem is a patient traveler.

Love and thanks to Christina Sharpe (Ordinary Notes) for reading and offering these generous words about my new book The Afterlife Is Letting Go, forthcoming from City Lights Books in December: t.ly/OaES7

behold all my sealey challenge stacks (week 3 had 5 books bc that wanda coleman one counts as several)— back to reading at a glacial pace, as nature intended for rigor-averse air signs ☁️

Ah yes, Fall Books. That time of the year when all major publications cover the same 10 books that I’m unlikely to read. Anyway heres’s some books I’m looking forward to this Fall. Let me know — based on the aesthetics of this list — if I missed some.

You've got questions. We've got answers. Please head on over to the HSB Info & FAQ page (also accessible in the app) to find out what you need to know and make your plans to join us. See you soon! hardlystrictlybluegrass.com/faq-info #hsb24 #hardlystrictlybluegrass

Rachel Kushner on "Three to Kill" by Jean-Patrick Manchette & published by City Lights: "vicious and hilarious, Manchette was a new discovery for me about three years ago." elle.com/culture/books/…

"This book, and all of my writing, is really trying to understand memorialization as not necessarily consoling us or offering a way to connect but as a way of distancing ourselves from an event."--☀️ 🌤 ⛅️ 🌥 on his forthcoming book with City Lights bit.ly/3z7njT4

Access to housing has become a major election issue this year. How are candidates planning to solve it? Watch now 📹 yesmagazine.org/video/presiden…

Former NBCC board member Walton Muyumba wrote about Danzy Senna’s "Colored Television" for Alta Journal: buff.ly/3Z8QfVB

June Jordan, from Some Changes (1971):

Join us today for First Fridays with Neblinas del Pacífico at 5pm in Kerouac Alley in between Vesuvio and City Lights! Come hear them weave a sonic tapestry of marimba de chonta music from the Afro-Colombian Pacific coast.