Poem of the week

  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,...

  E. K. Keith is a Latinx poet who calls San Francisco home, but her hometown is Houston where she learned to write in the sprawl. She performs...

  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...

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...

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...

  Rayan Mustafa is a Palestinian American poet from California. His work explores the intersection between the personal and political spheres of life and the emergence of identity...

  Sophie Klahr is the author of Meet Me Here At Dawn (YesYes Books, 2016). Her work appears in The New Yorker, The American Poetry Review, Ploughshares, AGNI...

  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....

Honorée Fanonne Jeffers is the author of four books of poetry, most recently, The Glory Gets (2015). A native southerner, she’s lived on the prairie now for fifteen...