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Did you miss the book launch for "UNSUNG HEROINES: 35 Women Who Changed the Bay Area" ?
You can now view a recording on our YouTube channel featuring author Rae Alexandra & illustrator Adrienne Simms!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=_-T_...
Somewhere in the Bay Area, a bookstore is quietly carrying the scene. Time to put it on the record.
Nominate your favorite in SFGATEβs Best of the Bay Area Readerβs Choice Contest. Or back current contenders like @citylightsbooks.bsky.social and @greenapplebooks.bsky.social at the link below.
Save the date, San Francisco! ποΈ
On March 25, @crystalsimonesmith.bsky.social will be at @citylightsbooks.bsky.social to chat about her new work of erasure poetry, COMMON SENSE (1776), with Tongo Eisen-Martin Poetry. Register now! #America250
π TODAY Mon 3/9 6pm PT/9pm ET
Judith Enck & @adamlmahoney.bsky.social
THE PROBLEM WITH PLASTIC: How We Can Save Ourselves and Our Planet Before Itβs Too Late
@thenewpress.bsky.social
@beyondplastics.bsky.social
**ONLINE ONLY**
Register for free to access the event: citylights.com/events/judit...
π TONIGHT Monday 3/9 6pm PT/9pm ET
Judith Enck with Adam Mahoney
THE PROBLEM WITH PLASTIC: How We Can Save Ourselves and Our Planet Before Itβs Too Late
@thenewpress.bsky.social
***ONLINE ONLY***
Register for free here for access to the event: citylights.com/events/judit...
Listen to this week's episode of the LIVE! From City Lights podcast on Spotify, Soundcloud, and Apple Podcasts.
We feature a conversation between @jasminiolani.bsky.social and @thesusanito.bsky.social about Hakes' novel, THE PΕHAKU.
soundcloud.com/livefromcity...
open.spotify.com/episode/54pb...
β¨ TONIGHT at City Lights LIVE! 7pm PT/10pm ET
@sandiproy.bsky.social with @jcarstensen.bsky.social
Discussing CHAPAL RANI, THE LAST QUEEN OF BENGAL: The Life and Times of a Female Impersonator
@seagullbooks.bsky.social
Register for free here for access to the event: citylights.com/events/sandi...
This week's LIVE! From City Lights podcast episode features John Sayles discussing his new book, CRUCIBLE.
@melvillehouse.bsky.social
Listen on Spotify, Apple Podcasts or SoundcloudβLinks in our bio!
π‘ TONIGHT! Weds 2/18 7pm PT
Join us to hear about all things City Lights with Gioia Woods who discuss her book CITY LIGHTS: Lawrence Ferlinghetti and the Biography of a Bookstore
[University of Nevada Press]
***IN-STORE ONLY***
Details: citylights.com/events/gioia...
Rae Alexandra and illustrator Adrienne Simms are hitting the local roads for their new book, UNSUNG HEROINES: 35 Women Who Changed the Bay Area, published by City Lights!
citylights.com/city-lights-...
Next week, Gioia Woods joins us for a conversation about her new book on City Lights!
Check out this excerpt featured in LitHub: lithub.com/the-radical-...
Rebuking President Trump, Congress votes to maintain most of the federal funding for libraries, museums, and archives.
www.everylibrary.org/congress2026... via @everylibrary.bsky.social
Sunday, February 8th is Neal Cassady's centennial!
The latest episode of our podcast LIVE! From City Lights has dropped
Featuring a timely discussion of @projectcensored.bsky.social's STATE OF THE FREE PRESS 2026
Listen on Apple Podcasts, Soundcloud, or Spotify!
Soundcloud: soundcloud.com/livefromcity...
Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/14R4...
City Lights LIVE! Event Tonight
β°οΈ Wednesday 2/4, 7pm PT/10pm ET
Jeannette L. Clariond with Forrest Gander
@princetonupress.bsky.social
If you can't make it to the bookstore, register for the livestream here!
citylights.com/events/jeann...
City Lights LIVE! Event Tonight
π¦ Tuesday 2/3, 7pm PT/10pm ET
@ralphremington.bsky.social with Ted Russell
PENETRATING WHITENESS: How White Supremacy Built America
[Books That Save Lives]
If you can't make it to the bookstore, register for the livestream here!
citylights.com/events/ralph...
The deportation dragnet runs on Amazon
Amazon Web Services (AWS) provides the crucial database management ICE depends on to track immigrants and power its massive deportation machine enforced by violent, masked agents.
TELL AMAZON: End Contracts With Ice: bit.ly/3NSTbSIThe
Konec San Francisca All caps title in bright red over a photo maybe taken in South of Market on a cloudy day, my author name in small white letters arranged vertically with the title, translator's name above the N in San
In case you were looking for the Slovenian translation of THE END OF SAN FRANCISCO, here she is!!π Originally published in 2013 by @citylightsbooks.bsky.social and still available in English as well, of course!!π
TONIGHT at City Lights!
π£οΈ Thursday 1/29, 7pm PT/10pm ET
Grant Faulkner & Gail Butensky (moderated by @mawsheinwin.bsky.social)
something out there in the distance
@uchicagopress.bsky.social
If you cant make it into the bookstore, register here to join the livestream:
citylights.com/events/grant...
City Lights will be closed all day January 30th in support of the national shutdown to abolish ICE.
Like many others, we are horrified by the unmitigated use of force on civilians in Minneapolis, in the United States, and beyond our borders.
Hope to see you in the streets.
Even Time Bleeds: Selected Poems by Jeannette L. Clariond, translated and introduced by Forrest Gander
Jeannette L. Clariond
Forrest Gander
Next week, Feb 4 at 7:00pm PST, @citylightsbooks.bsky.social is holding a reading of the vibrant and compelling poems of acclaimed Mexican writer Jeanette Clariond, translated by Pulitzer Prize-winner Forrest Gander in Even Time Bleeds!
Don't miss this free, hybrid event: buff.ly/IApTK9D
You step out on yr porch for a minute
& are swept up
shot down
or you turn to stone:
Those are the choices
βDiane diPrima
from βMEANWHILE THE WORLD GOES DOWNβ
published in THE POETRY DEAL
San Francisco Poet Laureate Series No. 5
City Lights, 2014
Photo of diPrima by Sheppard Powell
I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. Itβs dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good.
Stay free
"I know that dude."
" . . . When Renee Good said, 'Thatβs fine, dude. Iβm not mad,' I heard her addressing every man who would or could or might take advantage of us as women." βRachel Louise Snyder @nytimes.com
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/18/o...
βAll the bookstores here are fighting this,β she said, βI canβt overstate how involved all the stores are and how much work everybody is doing. It is a really incredible moment to be here. And to be part of this.ββAngela Schwesnedl, Moon Palace Books in @literaryhub.bsky.social
Art by Molly Fair justseeds.org/artist/molly...
Image description: Thousands of people march in the streets of Minneapolis carrying protest signs against ICE with a purple gradient. Text: Dearly beloved we are gathered here today to CRUSH ICE as a play on his lyrics
they will never break minneapolisβ spirit. this is why we will win
brass solidarity band brought the resistance and joy from george floyd square to whittier tonight
brass solidarity band performing βainβt no stopping us nowβ at pimento in minneapolis, blocks from where alex pretti was murdered by border patrol agents. truly the best of this city β€οΈβ€οΈβ€οΈ
