Poem of the week
We built this self on the sea - Melissa Eleftherion
DIAL-A-POET: Hear the poet in your coffee. Dial 415-484-7919. When you hear the greeting, press 721 Melissa Eleftherion grew up in Brooklyn. A high school dropout,...
Incubators of the Damned - James Cagney
James Cagney was born in Oakland, California, 1968. He was named after his father, a retired forklift mechanic. His mother, Juanita, worked as a beautician and teaching...
The New Colossus - Emma Lazarus
Emma Lazarus was born in New York City to a wealthy family and educated by private tutors. She began writing and translating poetry as a teenager and was...
untitled - Bashō
HEATHER HAS TWO LEATHER DADDIES - D. A. POWELL
D. A. Powell Professor University of San Francisco D.A. Powell’s books include Repast (Graywolf, 2014) and Useless Landscape, or A Guide for Boys (Graywolf, 2012), winner of the...
FULTON STREET TO NORTH BEACH - JAN BEATTY
Jan Beatty’s fifth book, Jackknife: New and Selected Poems, was published in 2017 by the University of Pittsburgh Press. Her last book, The Switching/Yard was named...
BLADE - Jacqueline Berger
Jacqueline Berger’s fourth book, The Day You Miss Your Exit, has just been published by Broadstone Books. Her poems have been featured on Garrison Keillor’s Writers Almanac....
