Featured This Week, 4/3-4/8: sfjazz poetry festival, donde esta mi gente?, kelsey st. press + lorrie moore, sb stokes

SFJAZZ Poetry FestivalThursday – Sunday No one claims to have invented poetry. There is poetry in every people and in every language. Jazz, though, was made in America. “Jazz, it seems to me, is less about the soloist – however talented – than it is about the complex interweaving of various sounds and voices,” says poet Jack Read More

Poetry Hotel Press: multiplicity as a fact of consciousness

Longtime friend to California poets and poetry and inspiration Jack Foley, who runs the weekly Cover to Cover show on KPFA, has just joined forces with poet Clara Hsu to start a new publishing house called Poetry Hotel Press. You can read a profile I wrote of Foley for the SF Chronicle here. The following is Read More